2009/2010

2014/2015

DM270

MED/44 (MEDICINA DEL LAVORO)

DIPARTIMENTO DI MEDICINA MOLECOLARE

MEDICINA E CHIRURGIA (IN LINGUA INGLESE)

PERCORSO COMUNE

6°

SECONDO SEMESTRE (23/02/2015 - 22/05/2015)

3

24 ore di attività frontale

ENGLISH

ORALE

CANDURA STEFANO - 1 CFU
DELLABIANCA ANTONIO - 1 CFU
STROSSELLI MAURIZIO - 1 CFU

General concepts
• definition and aims of the discipline
• occupational risks and hazards
• accident at work, occupational disease, work-related disease
• occupational anamnesis
• industrial hygiene: technical prevention and environmental monitoring
• sanitary survelillance, biomonitoring and biomarkers
• medical legal issues

Physical agents
• microclimate and thermal factors
• baropathies
• noise
• vibration
• electricity
• radiation (ionizing and non ionizing)
• Work-related Musculo-Skeletal Disorders (WMSDs)

Occupational toxicology
• toxic gases (carbon monoxide, cyanides, arsine)
• metals (lead, mercury, chromium, cadmium)
• solvents (general concepts, n-hexane, benzene, carbon disulfide)
• pesticides (general concepts, organophosphates)
• dusts and fibres (pneumoconioses)

Occupational allergology
• diagnostics (prick test, patch test, RAST, bronchoprovocation testing)
• main diseases (dermopathies, rhinitis, bronchial asthma, extrinsic allergic alveolitis)

Biological risk
• general concepts
• blood-borne pathogens
• air-borne pathogens
• zoonoses

Occupational cancer
• general concepts
• malignant mesothelioma

Work-related stress
• general concepts
• stress-related psychopathological disorders
• burn-out
• mobbing

The course consists of lectures

• Laodu J., Harrison R. Current Occupational & Environmental Medicine, 5th Edition. McGraw-Hill, New York, 2014.

• Mutti A., Corradi M. Lezioni di Medicina del Lavoro. Nuova Editrice Berti, Piacenza, 2014.

The final exam will be oral