GENERAL SURGERY
Stampa
Enrollment year
2020/2021
Academic year
2022/2023
Regulations
DM270
Academic discipline
MED/18 (GENERAL SURGERY)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL MEDICINE AND THERAPEUTICS
Course
MEDICINE AND SURGERY
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Year of study
Period
2nd semester (27/02/2023 - 26/05/2023)
ECTS
3
Lesson hours
28 lesson hours
Language
Italian
Activity type
ORAL TEST
Teacher
BIANCHI CARLO MARIA (titolare) - 3 ECTS
Prerequisites
adequate knowledge of anatomy and physiology
Learning outcomes
The purpose of the course is to provide the necessary elements to:

- collect an adequate anamnesis, giving details of all the aspects that make it up (family, physiological, remote pathological and proximate pathological history)

- perform a general physical examination

- recognize the signs and symptoms of the different pathological situations

- know the main semiological maneuvers

- know the general principles of instrumental semeiotics

- know the indications for prescribing the main laboratory and instrumental investigations

- reach, through clinical reasoning, an adequate diagnostic hypothesis and differential diagnostics.
Course contents
semeiological approach in general surgery.

surgical evaluation
guiding symptoms of the surgical patient
semeiotics of the acute abdomen
semiotics of appendicitis
semeiotics of intestinal obstruction
semeiotics of hernias and hernias
semeiotics of gallstones
semeiotics of acute pancreatitis
semeiotics of digestive haemorrhages
breast semiotics
semeiotics of adenopathies
Teaching methods
frontal lessons
Reccomended or required readings
D'Amico D.: Chirurgia Generale, Ed. Piccin
Dionigi: Chirurgia, Ed. Masson
Fegiz, Marrano, Ruberti: Manuale di Chirurgia Generale, Ed. Piccin
Sabiston: Textbook of Surgery, Ed. Saunders
Assessment methods
oral examination
Further information
Sustainable development goals - Agenda 2030