70990 - Prolonged Altered State of Consciousness (from Coma to Cerebral Death)

Academic Year 2024/2025

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 8415)

Learning outcomes

Students will be able to: - Learn the basic and advanced elements of the functional anatomy of consciousness and its acute and chronic disorders.

Acquire the ability to assess the level of impairment of consciousness in acute and chronic situations

Identify the causes of possible cognitive disorders

Utilize the most appropriate diagnostic tools in the diagnosis and management of altered states of consciousness

Develop skills in interacting with patients and family members in communicating the steps of diagnostic management and disease communication.

Course contents

Neurophysiology:

  - post-anoxic encephalopathy

  - traumatico brain injury

  - brain death

Readings/Bibliography

slides and pdf

Teaching methods

Traditional Lectures

Clinical Cases Analysis

Assessment methods

Multiple-choice quiz

Teaching tools

Slides

Office hours

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