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Pediatrics - mod. NEONATAL DISEASES AND CHI
VIRGILIO CARNIELLI

Seat Medicina e Chirurgia
A.A. 2013-2014
Credits 1
Hours 10
Period 1^ semestre
Language ENG
U-gov code 5001 LS039C

Prerequisites
Students should have an adequate knowledge of systematic pathology, pharmacology, diagnostic  imaging and pathology

Development of the course
This course intends to provide the students with  the fundamentals  for the  identification of the most important problems of the developing age, with particular reference to the most frequent diseases and to the Nutrition and Auxology principles

Learning outcomes
 At the end of the course, each student should be able to assess the health status of the child and to identify those pathological conditions that require hospital treatment and those that require home therapy

Program
The course objectives are to: recognize the factors that contribute to the onset of obesity or growth deficit;  know the methods to carry out the newborn physical examination; do develop effective and empathic communication skills to approach and communicate with the child and his/her family; distinguish the appropriate use of drugs and to be able to determine when it is not necessary to use them; recognize abnormal growth that require further investigation; identify factors of the intrauterine life that may influence the fetal growth; understand  that how some aspects of development are important in clinical practice; identify early signs of mental retardation and cerebral palsy; identify behavioral and psychosocial problems by medical anamnesis and physical examination; make an early detection of surgical diseases

Development of the examination
Oral exam

Recommended reading

a)     TITLE: Principi e pratica di Pediatria

b)      AUTHOR:  Panizon

c)      PUBLISHER Ambrosiana

d)     TITLE  : Pediatria Generale e Specialistica

e)      AUThors: AA.VV

 

 

F) PUBLISHER: Ambrosiana

g) TITLE : Chirurgia Pediatrica

h) AUTHORS: G.B.Parigi

i) PUBLISHER: Masson Elsevier  Italia

Other textbooks: Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics, Saunders Company; Rodolph’s Pediatrics Mc Graw-Hill ; Ashcraft ‘s Textbook of Pediatric Surgery  Saunders Elsevier

Courses

• Medicina e Chirurgia