Emergency Medicine

A.Y. 2024/2025
4
Max ECTS
48
Overall hours
SSD
MED/09 MED/18 MED/41
Language
Italian
Learning objectives
- Know how to deal with the main medical, surgical and resuscitation urgencies.
- Know how to assess the patient's general condition and stratify the clinical risk.
- Know the guidelines for the restoration and maintenance of vital functions, following appropriate diagnostic-therapeutic pathways.
- Know the physiopathological mechanisms, etiology and clinical presentation
- Know the differential diagnosis and the diagnostic pathway
- Know the techniques for monitoring vital functions
- Know the treatment principles and therapeutic algorithms
Expected learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student will be able to:
- know how to deal with cardiopulmonary resuscitation maneuvers;
- know how to deal with the main medical and resuscitation urgencies
- know the advanced algorithms of treatment of bradi- and tacho-arrhythmias in urgency, the principles of defibrillation and electrical cardioversion
- interpret the emo-gas analysis and learn about the main emergency drugs
- interpret a monitoring
Single course

This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.

Course syllabus and organization

Single session

Prerequisites for admission
Knowledge of main physiopathological mechanisms of regulation of cardio-circulatory, breathing and kidney homeostasis, included the acid-base balance.
Knowledge of the main methods of diagnostic imaging and laboratory medicine
Knowledge of the principles of medical and surgical therapy
Assessment methods and Criteria
ORAL WITH A WRITTEN PRESELECTION
The exam will consist of a first part written with scenarios of clinical situations concerning topics dealt with in the multiple choice lesson (1 or more right or all right or one more adequate than the others). The written exam will last 20 minutes and will consist of 10 questions. Each question is worth 2.5 points. To access the oral exam, you must reach the result of 6 correct answers out of 10 questions. The score of the written part will be a premise not conditioning the overall outcome of the exam which can be improved or worsened by the oral exam.
General surgery
Course syllabus
Abdominal trauma
Acute respiratory failure
Abdominal trauma + clinical cases
Acid-base balance
Septic shock
Chest trauma
Acute pulmonary edema
The cardiogenic shock 1
Clinical cases of chest and abdominal trauma
Therapy fluid and electrolytes
Coma and meningitis
Burns: clinical classification and treatment
Non-invasive ventilation, asthma and COPD
The cardiogenic shock 2
How to set up an antibiotic therapy
End of life management
Treatment of acute and chronic pain
Substances of abuse and intoxication

BLSD COURSE
Teaching methods
The course takes place through lectures and exercises at the hospital departments.
Teaching Resources
-Text book of surgery; Townsend ed: Elsevier;
-ATLS student course manual: advance trauma life support: ED: american college of surgeon.
Internal medicine
Course syllabus
Abdominal trauma
Acute respiratory failure
Abdominal trauma + clinical cases
Acid-base balance
Septic shock
Chest trauma
Acute pulmonary edema
The cardiogenic shock 1
Clinical cases of chest and abdominal trauma
Therapy fluid and electrolytes
Coma and meningitis
Burns: clinical classification and treatment
Non-invasive ventilation, asthma and COPD
The cardiogenic shock 2
How to set up an antibiotic therapy
End of life management
Treatment of acute and chronic pain
Substances of abuse and intoxication

BLSD COURSE
Teaching methods
The course takes place through lectures and exercises at the hospital departments.
Teaching Resources
-Text book of surgery; Townsend ed: Elsevier;
-ATLS student course manual: advance trauma life support: ED: american college of surgeon.
Anaesthesiology
Course syllabus
Abdominal trauma
Acute respiratory failure
Abdominal trauma + clinical cases
Acid-base balance
Septic shock
Chest trauma
Acute pulmonary edema
The cardiogenic shock 1
Clinical cases of chest and abdominal trauma
Therapy fluid and electrolytes
Coma and meningitis
Burns: clinical classification and treatment
Non-invasive ventilation, asthma and COPD
The cardiogenic shock 2
How to set up an antibiotic therapy
End of life management
Treatment of acute and chronic pain
Substances of abuse and intoxication

BLSD COURSE
Teaching methods
The course takes place through lectures and exercises at the hospital departments.
Teaching Resources
-Text book of surgery; Townsend ed: Elsevier;
-ATLS student course manual: advance trauma life support: ED: american college of surgeon.
Anaesthesiology
MED/41 - ANAESTHESIOLOGY - University credits: 2
Lessons: 16 hours
: 8 hours
General surgery
MED/18 - GENERAL SURGERY - University credits: 1
Lessons: 8 hours
: 4 hours
Shifts:
Turno
Professor: Corsi Fabio Ruggero Maria
Internal medicine
MED/09 - INTERNAL MEDICINE - University credits: 1
Lessons: 8 hours
: 4 hours
Shifts:
Turno
Professors: Fossali Tommaso, Rech Roberto