- Docente: Boaz Gedaliahu Samolsky Dekel
- Credits: 1
- SSD: MED/41
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Ravenna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Nursing (cod. 8474)
Learning outcomes
Acquire basic elements of general and Loco-Regional Anaesthesia; Understand the components of pain. The preparation of the surgical patient to the intervention. Understand the main phases of general anesthesia, the instruments and drugs employed for the induction, intubation, the maintenance and the awakening from General Anaesthesia. Instruments and drugs employed for Loco-Regional Anaesthesia . Organization, techniques and instruments for the treatment of the post-operative pain. Pain evaluation.
Course contents
1.Introduction to Anaesthesia and the suppression of pain. The basic elements of neuro-pathophysiology and clinics of pain.
2. The premedication to the surgical intervention; the positioning of the surgical patient on the operating table; monitoring the anaesthetized patient in the operating room.
3. General Anaesthesia: Induction, intubation, the principal pharmaceutical classes used for general anesthesia, its maintenance and the awakening phase.
4. Regional Anaestesia: techniques of topical, plexic and neuro-axial analgesia. The peridural and intrathecal anaesthesia and analgesia.
5. post operative pain issues: techniques, tools, drugs (NSAIDS, Opioids and Local Anaesthetics) and pain evaluation. Acute Pain Service.
Readings/Bibliography
In addition to the provided didactic material the reading of the following is recommended :
1. Categories of congruence between inpatient self-reported pain and nurses evaluation. Melotti RM, Samolsky Dekel BG, et al. Eur J Pain. 2009 Oct;13(9):992-1000. Epub 2008 Dec 31.
2. Pain prevalence and predictors among inpatients in a major Italian teaching hospital. A baseline survey towards a pain free hospital. Melotti RM, Samolsky-Dekel BG et al. Eur J Pain. 2005 Oct;9(5):485-95. Epub 2004 Nov 6.
Teaching methods
1. Frontal lectures
2. Clinical cases
Assessment methods
A quiz of questions with multiple answers at the end of the cycle of the lessons.
Teaching tools
Didactic Material and the slides shown during the lessons are provided on this site.
Office hours
See the website of Boaz Gedaliahu Samolsky Dekel