CODE 67579 ACADEMIC YEAR 2022/2023 CREDITS 1 cfu anno 6 MEDICINA E CHIRURGIA 8745 (LM-41) - GENOVA SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR MED/49 LANGUAGE Italian TEACHING LOCATION GENOVA SEMESTER 1° Semester MODULES Questo insegnamento è un modulo di: MEDICAL THERAPY APPLIED AND PALLIATIVE THERAPY TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB OVERVIEW Clinical nutrition and the role of nutrition in the treatment medical and surgical disorders AIMS AND CONTENT AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES At the end of the course, the student must be able to: - Know the nutritional needs of the healthy person and of the sick individual -Evaluate the state of nutrition and diagnose malnutrition by defect or excess -Program a nutritional support and know the indications and contraindications of a complete enteral or parenteral feeding - Knowing when medical and / or surgical therapy should be combined with adequate diet therapy and what type of diet should be prescribed - Knowing how to stratify the patient's cardiovascular risk -Know how to treat hypercholesterolemia and hypertriglyceridemia with adequate diet and oral medications available. Know the indications of the new PCSK-9 inhibitors TEACHING METHODS TEACHING in presence in MIXED MODE if the safety conditions are met. ON-LINE TEACHING in SYNCHRONOUS mode in the event of a pandemic emergency Availability of preparatory lessons provided to students in asynchronous mode for optional use. SYLLABUS/CONTENT Evaluation of the nutritional status Treatment of protein-energy malnutrition and vitamin deficiencies Artificial parenteral and enteral nutrition Diet therapy in internal pathologies, food allergies Nutritional therapy of obesity Hypercholesterolemia therapy Hypertriglyceridemia therapy RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY AA.VV.-Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine. McGraw Hill (19th ed., 2015) LARN 2014 Updated GUIDELINES and POSITION PAPERS of the Italian, European and international SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD LIVIA PISCIOTTA Ricevimento: On appointemnt writing to livia.pisicotta@unige.it DIMI viale Benedetto XV 6 First floor Exam Board DIEGO BAGNASCO (President) ANDREA DE MARIA (President) GIOVANNI PASSALACQUA (President) FULVIO BRAIDO MARCO CANEPA MANUELE FURNARI EDOARDO GIOVANNI BATTISTA GIANNINI ROBERTO MASSIMO LEMOLI DAVIDE CARLO MAGGI LIVIA PISCIOTTA ITALO PORTO ALBERTO SULLI FRANCESCA CHIARA VIAZZI ROBERTO PONTREMOLI (President and Coordinator of Integrated Course) LESSONS LESSONS START October 2021 Class schedule The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy EXAMS EXAM DESCRIPTION The exam refers to all integrated course program and will take place in written form. The test consists of a multiple choice quiz series. The quizzes can be represented by short clinical cases or by clinical situations. 4 possible choice options are listed, of which only 1 is correct. In the event of a pandemic emergency, the exam will be carried out online on the Teams platform. Multiple choice or open-ended questions may be asked ASSESSMENT METHODS Verification of learning takes place only through the final exam which aims to ascertain the actual acquisition by the student of the all expected learning outcomes. The final grade is out of thirty and the exam is passed if the student has answered exactly a number of quizzes such as to score at least 18 points. The multiple choice quizzes will cover all the topics covered in class and are prepared to assess the level of knowledge and ascertain the depth of clinical analysis and reasoning skills developed by the student.
