At the end of the course students will know: - Carry out a clinical examination of the patient with suspected diagnosis setting - What are the most common imaging studies support the clinical examination and what is their diagnostic significance - For each of the pathological histories to know: . what is (definition) . how important it is (epidemiology) . why and how it is produced (etiology, pathophysiology) . what are the clinical and instrumental and how is it diagnosed . to what you can bring (natural history, complications) . what to do and where (therapeutical notes, homecare and hospital) . possible stages of the disease requiring urgent action (how to recognize the urgency, how to treat it) - In which advanced stages is necessary to resort to surgery - What are the methods needed for open-heart surgery (cardiopulmonary bypass, myocardial protection, hypothermia) - Basic knowledge for the management of patients with heart transplantation, heart-lung and polmoneisolato. - Basic knowledge for the management of patients with pulmonary hypertension.
Teaching Methods
Lectures
Assessment Methods
Oral test
Texts
Malattie del Cuore e dei Vasi - De Caterina, Dal Palù, Finardi, Venco -Piccin, 2010 Cardiac Surgery in the Adult, 4th Edition – Cohn -McGraw-Hill, 2011 Kirklin/Barratt-Boyes Cardiac Surgery, 4th Edition - Kouchoukos, Blackstone, Hanley, Kirklin - Saunders, 2012 Operative Cardiac Surgery, 5th Edition - Gardner, Spray - Hodder Arnold, 2004 Heart and Lung Transplantation, 2nd Edition - Baumgartner, Reitz, Kasper, Theodore - Saunders, 2002 Encyclopédie Médico-Chirurgicale - Techniques Chirurgicales – Thorax - Elsevier Masson, 2012
Contents
- Extracorporeal circulation and myocardial protection - Surgery for ischemic heart disease and its complications - Surgery for the aortic valve and thoracic aorta - Mitral valve surgery - Surgery for congenital heart defects - Heart transplantation and ventricular assist devices - Lung and heart-lung transplantation - Surgery for pulmonary embolism and chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension
