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Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
Degree:
Course of 1st Cycle Degree in NURSING
Professor and Collaborators:
Hours of classroom activity:
Prerequisites:
Knowledge of human anatomy, physiology, physics and biochemistry. Prerequisites in accordance with the educational regulation of the Study Course Program.
Objectives
Contents The Cardiac Surgery course aims to illustrate cardiovascular pathologies with indication to cardiac surgery treatment through basic notions of etiopathogenesis, epidemiology, pathology aimed at the invasive treatment, surgical or interventional. The clinical features of cardiovascular diseases will be also illustrated. The history and evolution of extracorporeal circulation as well as the pathophysiology inherent to this technique that represents the foundation of cardiac surgery will also be treated. As far as those specific aspects of nursing concern the consequences of the use of extracorporeal circulation in the clinical practice and, in general, those concerning cardiac surgery techniques will be also treated in order to orient learning towards a specific and practical awareness of the role of nursing care setting.
Extended Syllabus • History of cardiac surgery
• Extracorporeal circulation and myocardial protection
• Hypothermia, circulatory arrest and neuroprotection
• Generalities and classification of the main congenital heart diseases
• Aortic coarctation
• Patent arterial duct
• Defect of the atrial septum
• Interventricular septal defect
• Ischemic heart disease: coronary heart disease
• Ischemic heart disease: surgical complications of myocardial infarction
• Aortic valve disease
• Mitral valve disease
• Chronic aortic aneurysms
• Acute and chronic aortic dissections
• Implantation of automatic pacemakers and defibrillators
• Mechanical circulatory assistance
• Total artificial heart
• Heart transplantation
Recommended Bibliography
Teaching Methods Lectures and frequency of cardiac surgery departments, the latter if required by the teaching regulations of the Nursing Studies Course
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
Depending on training needs, tests can be held in
itinere to be able to detect the effectiveness of the learning processes and of
teaching.
The final exam consists of an oral test at the end of the course in which it is held
student must prove to have mastered the topics
of the course program. The final verification can be supported in one
of the appeals present in the calendar.
In principle, the oral discussion focuses on a trio of topics
in which the student can demonstrate:
@a sufficient but incomplete basic knowledge (vote 18-22 / 30),
@a discreet knowledge with the ability to clearly illustrate the
topics (23-25 / 30),
@good ability to illustrate topics with language properties e
mastery of the subject (26-28 / 30),
@excellent knowledge of the material moving with ease from a
subject to another contextualizing any interconnections and / or
differences (28-30 / 30).
Praise is reserved for those who also show particular interest and
knowledge of the functional aspects of the professionalizing sector, with
high communication skills and independent learning.
Contacts/More Information Office hours:
by telephone appointment to the secretarial office of the chair of cardiac surgery (Mrs Alessandra Mezzanotte) 0871358654 or via email: amezzanotte@unich.it