NEUROLOGY
OVERVIEW
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Neurological urgencies: coma, brain death, clinical and bioethical aspects and the importance and limits of electroencephalography and other instrumental exams |
AIMS AND CONTENT
AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES
Knowledge and understaning of the etiological, clinical, instrumental and prognostic factors of coma
Knowledge and understanding of the clinical, instrumental and bioethical aspects of brain death and vegetative state
Teaching methods
Theoric frontal lessons
SYLLABUS/CONTENT
Physiology of the conscious state and pathophysiology of consciousness disturbances
Approaching the patient with a disturbance of consciousness
Principal structural and metabolic causes of coma. Urgent medical and surgical treatment of patients with specific disturbances of consciousness and their prognosis
Approach to the diagnosis of brain death and the clinical physiology of vegetative state and minimally conscious state
RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bernat James Ethical issue in Neurology. Butterwoth-Heinemann 2° edition 2002
Young et al. Coma and impaired consciousness : a clinical perspective. McGraw- Hill Medical 1998
J.B. Posner, C.B. Saper, N.D. Schiff, F. Plum. Stupor e coma (sottotitolo Edizione italiana basata sull'ultima edizione americana) Raffaello Cortina Editore 2004
TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD
Exam Board
PIERO RUGGERI (President)
CARLA COGO (President)
PIETRO BALDELLI
ANNA FASSIO
EMANUELA LUISA FAELLI
LAURA AVANZINO
FABIO BENFENATI (President and Coordinator of Integrated Course)
LESSONS
Teaching methods
Theoric frontal lessons