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.
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.
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.
Ricevimento: After e-mail (apende@unige.it) contact for an appointment.
Ricevimento: contact by e-mail: f.torre@unige.it
Ricevimento: Please write to italo.porto@gmail.com
Ricevimento: Giacomo Borgonovo will receive students on phone n 01035357335 or, preferably, by previous appointment by mail at: borgonovo@unige.it
Ricevimento: mbalestrino@neurologia.unige.it
ALDO PENDE (President)
FRANCESCO TORRE (President)
PIETRO AMERI
MARIO AMORE
MAURIZIO BALESTRINO
IOLE BRUNETTI
GIOVANNI CAMERINI
MANUELE FURNARI
GIORGIO GHIGLIOTTI
DANIELE ROBERTO GIACOBBE
PAOLO MOSCATELLI
NICOLO' ANTONINO PATRONITI
FRANCESCA SANGUINETI
ROCCO VERGALLO
GIANLUIGI ZONA
GIACOMO BORGONOVO (President and Coordinator of Integrated Course)
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.
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.
