Emergency Medical and Surgical Care

The course aims to teach the epidemiology, the principal pathophysiological mechanisms, the procedures for diagnosis and management of the endocrine, metabolic, gastroenterological, rheumatological and haematological diseases.

The student is able to:
i) undertake cardiopulmonary resuscitation maneuvers;
ii) how approach patients with trauma emergencies and medical-surgical emergencies ; ii) know the advanced brady- and tachyarrhythmia treatment algorithms in urgencies, the principles of defibrillation and electrical cardioversion;
iii) know theoretically and interpret invasive hemodynamic monitoring of arterial pressure, central venous pressure, pulmonary artery pressure and wedge pressure;
iv) interpret blood gas analysis and know the main emergency drugs.