Program Overview

EMERGENCY MEDICINE AND MINOR TRAUMA

Program Details

• CODE: 67356
• ACADEMIC YEAR: 2025/2026
• CREDITS:
  • 1 cfu anno 2 PODOLOGIA 9284 (L/SNT2) - GENOVA
• SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR: MED/09
• LANGUAGE: Italian
• TEACHING LOCATION:
  • GENOVA
• SEMESTER: 1° Semester
• MODULES: This teaching is a module of:
  • MEDICAL SCIENCE II
• TEACHING MATERIALS: AULAWEB

Aims and Content

Learning Outcomes

Acquire theoretical, scientific, and professional knowledge in the fields of first diagnostic framing (both intra and extra-hospital) as first treatment of medical, surgical, and traumatic urgencies in podology.

Aims and Learning Outcomes

• To acquire knowledge and practical skills for the first aid approach to cardiac arrest and to the use of AED; first aid for wounds, hemorrhages, burns, and trauma.
• To be able to recognize the most common diseases in Internal Medicine.

Teaching Methods

• Lectures (in presence or online) with audiovisual support.
• Interactive lectures (if feasible).

Syllabus/Content

• First aid and initial treatment of cardiac arrest, with notions on the semi-automatic external defibrillator.
• Technical knowledge and manual skills of first aid in case of wounds, hemorrhages, burns, and trauma.
• Dyspnea.
• Chest pain (etiopathogenesis, elements of electrocardiography, e.c.g. and enzymatic monitoring, therapeutic basis of ischemic heart disease).
• Loss of consciousness (syncope, seizure, coma, pseudo-coma).
• Shock (cardiogenic, hypovolemic, anaphylactic, septic, neurogenic).
• Hypertensive emergency.
• Thrombosis-thromboembolism.
• Acute abdomen.

Recommended Reading/Bibliography

• Extracts from the lectures and audiovisual material used in the lectures.
• Medicina Interna per Scienze Infermieristiche di R. Antonelli Incalzi, Piccin.
• Medicina Interna per scienze infermieristiche di Renato Massini, Quinta edizione, Mc Graw Hill Education.
• In alternativa potranno essere consultati i capitoli, corrispondenti al programma, dei: "Principi di Medicina interna" di Harrison.

Teachers and Exam Board

• FRANCESCO TORRE.

Lessons

Lessons Start

Lectures will be held in the first term of the academic year.

Class Schedule

The timetable for this course is available here.

Exams

Exam Description

Multiple choice questions.

Assessment Methods

Capacity to apply the acquired knowledge by choosing the right answer in a multiple choice question.

Exam Schedule

• Data appello: 16/01/2026, Orario: 12:00, Luogo: GENOVA, Degree type: Scritto.
• Data appello: 12/02/2026, Orario: 12:00, Luogo: GENOVA, Degree type: Scritto.
• Data appello: 18/06/2026, Orario: 12:00, Luogo: GENOVA, Degree type: Scritto.
• Data appello: 16/07/2026, Orario: 12:00, Luogo: GENOVA, Degree type: Scritto.
• Data appello: 17/09/2026, Orario: 12:00, Luogo: GENOVA, Degree type: Scritto.