NURSING IN THE CRITICAL AREA AND IN THE EMERGENCY Single channel
Chair (Coordinator) and Rapporteur: GIOIA BRACHINI
Module 1: EMERGENCY MEDICINE
- Activity type
- Primo soccorso
- SSD
- MED/09
- Year
- N/D
- Semester
- N/D
- CFU
- 1
- Hours distribution
- 12 classroom hours
- Lecturers
- MARIA PIA RUGGIERI
Module 2: EMERGENCY SURGERY
- Activity type
- Primo soccorso
- SSD
- MED/18
- Year
- N/D
- Semester
- N/D
- CFU
- 1
- Hours distribution
- 12 classroom hours
- Lecturers
- GIOIA BRACHINI
Module 3: ANESTHESIA AND RESUSCITATION
- Activity type
- Primo soccorso, Interdisciplinari e cliniche
- SSD
- MED/41, MED/41
- Year
- N/D
- Semester
- N/D
- CFU
- 2
- Hours distribution
- 24 classroom hours
- Lecturers
- ANDREA MORELLI
Module 4: NURSING IN THE CRITICAL AREA
- Activity type
- Scienze infermieristiche
- SSD
- MED/45
- Year
- N/D
- Semester
- N/D
- CFU
- 2
- Hours distribution
- 24 classroom hours
- Lecturers
- Andrea Tranghese
Learning outcomes
knowledge of acute care surgery and trauma management
Prerequisites
Appropriate knowledge of general Anatomy and Physiology
Programme
Module: EMERGENCY MEDICINE
N/D
Module: EMERGENCY SURGERY
part I: trauma
primary survey ABCDE following the ATLS algorythm: airway breathing, circulation, disability and exposure-environment
resuscitation, lifesaving manoeuvers
secondary survey and transfer
part II: acute care surgery
main surgical emergencies
acute abdominal pain
bowel obstruction
bowel perforation
bowel ischemia
upper and lower gastrointestinal bleeding
biliary and pancreatic emergencies
Module: ANESTHESIA AND RESUSCITATION
N/D
Module: NURSING IN THE CRITICAL AREA
N/D
Books
Module: EMERGENCY MEDICINE
N/D
Module: EMERGENCY SURGERY
SHARED SLIDES.
Chirurgia d'Urgenza e del Trauma, SICUT libreriauniversitaria.it
ATLS Advanced Trauma Life Support, Student Manual, 10th Ed. American College of Surgeons
Module: ANESTHESIA AND RESUSCITATION
N/D
Module: NURSING IN THE CRITICAL AREA
N/D
Bibliography
Module: EMERGENCY MEDICINE
N/D
Module: EMERGENCY SURGERY
N/D
Module: ANESTHESIA AND RESUSCITATION
N/D
Module: NURSING IN THE CRITICAL AREA
N/D
Lessons mode
interactive lessons with shared slides and simulated clinical cases
Frequency
mandatory attendance
Exam mode
ability to describe the management of the most frequent acute care surgical and trauma conditions
ability to deal with clinical cases of acute care surgical and trauma conditions
Example exam questions
diagnostics in acute cholecystitis
management of tension pneumothorax
how to deal with a clinical case of bowel ischemia
Arguments
Module: EMERGENCY MEDICINE
N/D
Module: EMERGENCY SURGERY
- trauma: primary survey
- trauma: airway, breathing
- trauma: hemorrages control, shock
- trauma: disability, temperature control
- trauma: resuscitation, secondary survey, transfer
- acute care surgery:acute abdominal pain, bowel obstruction
- acute care surgery:biliary and pancreatic emergencies
- acute care surgery: bowel perforation and ischemia
- acute care surgery: upper an lower gastrointestinal bleding
Module: ANESTHESIA AND RESUSCITATION
N/D
Module: NURSING IN THE CRITICAL AREA
N/D
Sustainability goals
- Academic year2026/2027
- Degree program to which the course belongsNursing - Course L - Roma Azienda S. Giovanni Addolorata
- Mandatory presenceNo
- Languageita
- CFU6 CFU, distributed among 4 integrated didactic modules
- Total duration72 hours