Neurological urgencies: coma, brain death, clinical and bioethical aspects and the importance and limits of electroencephalography and other instrumental exams
Knowledge and understaning of the etiological, clinical, instrumental and prognostic factors of coma
Knowledge and understanding of the clinical, instrumental and bioethical aspects of brain death and vegetative state
Theoric frontal lessons
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.
Physiology of the conscious state and pathophysiology of consciousness disturbances
Approaching the patient with a disturbance of consciousness
Principal structural and metabolic causes of coma. Urgent medical and surgical treatment of patients with specific disturbances of consciousness and their prognosis
Approach to the diagnosis of brain death and the clinical physiology of vegetative state and minimally conscious state
Bernat James Ethical issue in Neurology. Butterwoth-Heinemann 2° edition 2002
Young et al. Coma and impaired consciousness : a clinical perspective. McGraw- Hill Medical 1998
J.B. Posner, C.B. Saper, N.D. Schiff, F. Plum. Stupor e coma (sottotitolo Edizione italiana basata sull'ultima edizione americana) Raffaello Cortina Editore 2004
Ricevimento: By email dario.arnaldi@unige.it
ANNA MARGHERITA CORRADI (President)
ANNA FASSIO (President)
PIERO RUGGERI (President)
FABIO BENFENATI (President and Coordinator of Integrated Course)
LAURA AVANZINO (President Substitute)
MARCO BOVE (President Substitute)
Please refer to the Web Agenda | University of Genoa, available at the following link: https://easyacademy.unige.it/portalestudenti/
The timetable for this course is available here: EasyAcademy
