CODE 67589 ACADEMIC YEAR 2025/2026 CREDITS 8 cfu anno 6 MEDICINA E CHIRURGIA 8745 (LM-41) - GENOVA LANGUAGE Italian TEACHING LOCATION GENOVA PREREQUISITES Propedeuticità in ingresso Per sostenere l'esame di questo insegnamento è necessario aver sostenuto i seguenti esami: MEDICINE AND SURGERY 8745 (coorte 2020/2021) NEUROLOGY 67491 2020 SURGERY I 67505 2020 MEDICINE 67519 2020 MODULES Questo insegnamento è composto da: ANAESTHESIOLOGY GENERAL SURGERY LOCOMOTOR SYSTEM DISEASES DISEASES OF THE CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM INTERNAL MEDICINE NEUROLOGY TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB OVERVIEW The course will increase the student’s knowledge of diagnosis and treatment of the most common diseases that require First Aid treatment in emergency situations. Guidelines to help the student understand how to properly diagnose and treat various diseases will be provided, with a course emphasis on learning the most basic concepts of evidence-based medicine. AIMS AND CONTENT LEARNING OUTCOMES Students will learn to recognize and provide emergency First Aid treatment for 1) cardiac; 2) hemodynamic; 3) respiratory; 4) abdominal; 5) neurological; 6) orthopedic; 7) psychiatric; 8) traumatic vascular; 9) hemorrhagic; 10) allergic; 11) infectious; and, 12) exposure to toxic environmental and/or physical agents . they will be able to manage the initial stages until possible hospitalization and acquire manual skills and immediate rescue techniques and knowledge of the use of drugs of interest in the emergency area. PREREQUISITES a good knowledge of surgical anatomy, phisiopathology and pathology of the most common diseases that can acutely harm vital functions of human body is required as well as of clinical pharmacology. It is mandatory to have the basic concepts of evidence-based medicine and a good knowledge of statistics applied to medicine. TEACHING METHODS Any Student with documented Specific Learning Disorders (SLD), or with any special needs, shall reach out to the Lecturer(s) and to the dedicated SLD Representative in the Department before class begins, in order to liase and arrange the specific teaching methods and ensure proper achievement of the learning aims and outcomes. TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD FRANCESCO TORRE Ricevimento: contact by e-mail: f.torre@unige.it PAOLO MOSCATELLI ANNA DA COL PIETRO AMERI ITALO PORTO Ricevimento: Please write to italo.porto@gmail.com GIOVANNI CAMERINI MATTEO FORMICA ANDREA ZANIRATO LORENZO BALL NICOLO' ANTONINO PATRONITI GIANLUIGI ZONA MAURIZIO BALESTRINO Ricevimento: mbalestrino@neurologia.unige.it LESSONS Class schedule The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy EXAMS EXAM DESCRIPTION A written exam that includes all the subjects teached is held for the entire course. The test consists on 31 multiple choice questions on topics of basic knowledge, diagnosis and therapy in the field of Emergencies. one point for each positive correct answet, zero point for each unresponded or incorrect answer wil be given; eighteen correct answers is considered the minimum result to pass the exam. The questions are prepared in order to evaluate the acquired knowledge and the logic skills of the student. ASSESSMENT METHODS Accuracy of the answers; 1 point assigned for each correct answer. moreover, during the laboratory instructor veify that each student is able to perform the foundamental procedure of BLS.
