- Docente: Giorgio Bedogni
- Credits: 2
- SSD: MED/09
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Ravenna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Nursing (cod. 5908)
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from Nov 13, 2024 to Dec 09, 2024
Learning outcomes
At the end of the module, the student possesses knowledge, to the extent of his/her competence, relating to healthcare activities in the field of physiopathology and medical semiotics of adulthood and geriatrics.
Course contents
1. Internal Medicine
Liver and biliary tract diseases:
- Anatomy and clinical physiology
- Clinical manifestations
- Laboratory evaluation
- Liver and biliary tract diseases: acute hepatitis, chronic hepatitis, alcoholic liver disease, liver disease associated with metabolic dysfunction (MAFLD), drug-induced liver disease, liver cirrhosis, cholelithiasis
2. Connective tissues diseases
- Clinical anatomy
- Autoimmunity
- Laboratory evaluation
- Connective tissues diseases: rheumatoid arthritis, seronegative spondyloarthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, psoriatic arthritis, reactive arthritis, Sjögren's syndrome, systemic lupus erythematosus, progressive systemic sclerosis, polymyositis and dermatomyositis, anti-phospholipid antibody syndrome, mixed connective tissue.
3. Geriatrics
- Aging and atypical presentation of diseases
- Frailty and functional decline
- Complexity of the elderly patient
- Geriatric syndromes
- Cognitive decline
- Delirium
- Falls
- Sarcopenia
- Pharmacotherapy in the elderly
- Nutrition in the elderly
Readings/Bibliography
Massini R, Izzi D, Marchetti P, Passeretti F, Recine U. Medicina Interna (collana Laurea Infermieristica). Milano: McGraw Hill Education; 2019.
Teaching methods
Classroom-taught lessons
Assessment methods
Written exam: multiple choice questions.
Teaching tools
Course handouts
Office hours
See the website of Giorgio Bedogni