- Docente: Alessandro Cucchetti
- Credits: 1
- SSD: MED/18
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 5709)
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from Mar 04, 2025 to Mar 25, 2025
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, the student: - knows the peculiarities of the surgical approach to the elderly patient with the analysis of the specific themes developed in order to acquire methods, tools and documentation for differential diagnostics and the setting of the therapeutic plan in the elderly; - knows, in broad terms, the surgical procedures that are usually adopted in the elderly patient, with particular attention to minimally invasive approaches and techniques; - knows, in the oncology field, the therapeutic procedures associated with surgery in the geriatric age for a multidisciplinary strategy in relation to tumor specificity.
Course contents
- Residual life-span and Ageism
- Frailty in surgery
Readings/Bibliography
- at the student's discretion
Teaching methods
- lessons with presentations of clinical cases
Assessment methods
- Quiz
Office hours
See the website of Alessandro Cucchetti