Medical and Surgical Emergency

The main learning objective of the course is to understand the diagnostic and therapeutic approach to the most common medical and surgical emergencies. To achieve this goal, the students will attend the activities of the Emergency Department (both medical and surgical sections) and will attend the presentation and interactive discussion of clinical cases (real or simulated).

Regarding Pain Therapy, the main learning objective of the course is to understand the clinical approach to a patient with pain and to learn the basis of pharmacological and interventional analgesic treatments. This will be achieved through dedicated seminars. In addition, the students will attend the activities of a hospital Pain Clinic.

At the end of the course the student should learn the differential diagnosis and the diagnostic pathway of patients with: hemodynamic instability, arrythmias, acute respiratory failure, sespsis, trauma and abdominal emergencies.

Pain Therapy: differential diagnosis and diagnostic pathway of acute and chronic pain sysndromes. Principles of treatment of acute postoperative pain.