Corso integrato di scienze interdisciplinari: chirurgie specialistiche con implicazioni oftalmiche

Patient management in the operating room, asepsis and sepsis
Surgical sutures
The polytrauma patient
Surgical pathology of the venous and arterial vascular system
Pathology of the abdominal wall and hernias

· Principles of wound healing
· Basic concepts of sutures
· Principles of burns and their treatment
· Oculopalpebral reconstructive surgery
· Oculopalpebral aesthetic surgery
· Main malformation syndromes
· Trauma and tumors

1 Craniofacial malformations: generalities, embryogenesis, diagnostic aspects and treatment outlines
Craniostenosis and craniofaciostenosis (generalities, plagiocephaly, trigonocephaly, scaphocephaly, brachycephaly, S. of Appert, S. of Crouzon etc.)
2 Cranio-maxillofacial traumatology: generalities, pathogenesis, diagnostic aspects and treatment hints
Soft tissue traumatology (wound healing, glandular duct injuries etc.)
Traumatology of the skeleton with special reference to orbital fractures
Tumors of the orbital and periorbital region
Classification of tumors
Clinical and instrumental diagnostic aspects
Hints of therapy
3 Trigeminal and facial nerve surgery
Classification of nerve lesions
Trigeminal and facial nerve injuries: diagnostic aspects and hints of therapy
4 Exophthalmos surgery
Classification of exophthalmos
Clinical problems in Graves-Basedow's orbitopathy
Exophthalmos surgery: history, technique, indications and results
MED/31 Otolaryngology
1. Anatomo-physiology. Phlogistic pathology of the nose and sinuses. Clinical and instrumental semiotics.
Trauma. Inflammatory pathology of the nose and sinuses and its complications. Epistaxis. Foreign bodies.
2. Anatomo-physiology. Phlogistic pathology of the oral cavity, nasopharynx and oropharynx. Instrumental clinical semiotics.
Infectious inflammatory pathology-obstructive pathology. Neoplastic pathology.
3. Anatomo-physiology. Pathology of the outer, middle and inner ear. Instrumental clinical semiotics.
Infectious inflammatory pathology. Hypoacusis.
4. Anatomo-physiology. Phlogistic and neoplastic pathology of the larynx and digestive airways. Clinical instrumental semiotics.
Malformations. Trauma. Laryngopathies from organic injury - functional - from altered motion. Benign neoformative pathology.
Urgencies and emergencies in otolaryngology.

1. Notions of the anatomy of the crystalline lens. Classification of cataract. Indications for surgery. Modern cataract surgical techniques (phacoemulsification with intraocular lens implantation; femtolaser). Presentation of several videos of cataract surgery (including complicated cataract).
2. Concepts of corneal anatomy and major corneal diseases of surgical interest. Corneal transplantation surgery (perforating keratoplasty, anterior lamellar keratoplasty, endothelial keratoplasty)
3. Classification of glaucoma. Indications for glaucoma surgery. Parachirurgical (laser) techniques in glaucoma. Filtering surgery; nonfiltering surgery; valves; the devices.
-4. Semeiotics of macular diseases of surgical interest (macular pucker, macular hole). Vitrectomy; Peeling of the epiretinal membrane/internal limiting membrane. Video presentation of surgical techniques.
5. Semeiotics of retinal detachment. Surgical techniques ab externo and ab interno. Video presentation of surgical techniques.
-6. parasurgical (laser) techniques for: secondary cataract; acute glaucoma; proliferating retinal vasculopathies; excimer laser

1. Anatomo-physiology. Phlogistic pathology of the nose and sinuses. Clinical and instrumental semiotics.
Trauma. Inflammatory pathology of the nose and sinuses and its complications. Epistaxis. Foreign bodies.
2. Anatomo-physiology. Phlogistic pathology of the oral cavity, nasopharynx and oropharynx. Instrumental clinical semiotics.
Infectious inflammatory pathology-obstructive pathology. Neoplastic pathology.
3. Anatomo-physiology. Pathology of the outer, middle and inner ear. Instrumental clinical semiotics.
Infectious inflammatory pathology. Hypoacusis.
4. Anatomo-physiology. Phlogistic and neoplastic pathology of the larynx and digestive airways. Clinical instrumental semiotics.
Malformations. Trauma. Laryngopathies from organic injury - functional - from altered motion. Benign neoformative pathology.
Urgencies and emergencies in otolaryngology.

· Preoperative assessment of adult and pediatric surgical patients
· Intraoperative management of adult and pediatric patients
· Postoperative management and assessment of adult and pediatric surgical patients

Professional figures present in an operating department
Historical and legal background on the presence of the assistant orthoptist in ophthalmology in the operating room
Definition of Key Operator
Minimum structural and technological requirements of an operating department
Access of operators and materials to and from the operating department
Operators' behavioral norms
Hand washing and surgical hand washing
Aseptic dressing of the surgical team before surgery
Preparation of materials, devices, and instrumentation needed for surgical activities
Sterilization of surgical instruments in the operating room
Relational, educational, and technical nursing care in the preoperative setting
Relational, educational and technical nursing care in the intraoperative
Relational, educational and technical nursing care in the postoperative
Health documentation
Control and counting of devices used in the operating field
Collection and transport of medical waste of various kinds
Sanitation of environments