Learning outcomes
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.
Course 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
Reccomended or required readings
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
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