Traslational cardiovascular medicine and surgery (clerkship)

Practical activities will be used, through simulation, through the attendance in the ward or attendance of real cardiac or vascular surgery procedures in the ward, to consolidate technical and soft knowledge and skills developed during frontal lectures.

At the end of the cardiovascular clerkship, students should be able to: - Evaluate patients with heart failure: history, clinical examination, and EKG - Perform and evaluate cardiopulmonary exercise test - Evaluate patients with acute chest pain - Evaluate patients with acute dyspnea - Monitor patients with acute myocardial infarction - Assess and manage pre- and postoperatively patients candidate to cardiac surgery, mainly adult patients undergoing coronary, valve ad aorta surgery. Similarly, to assess and manage patients candidate to vascular surgery because affected by carotid, aortic, visceral, renal, iliac, and femoro-distal diseases, and superficial and deep venous lesions.