Program Overview

EMERGENCY MEDICINE

Program Details

• Code: 68080
• Academic Year: 2025/2026
• CFU:
  • 1 credit year 3 NURSING 9276 (L/SNT1) - GE SAN MARTINO
  • 1 credit year 3 NURSING 9276 (L/SNT1) - GE ASL 3
  • 1 credit year 3 NURSING 9276 (L/SNT1) - GE GALLIERA
  • 1 credit year 3 NURSING 9276 (L/SNT1) - IMPERIA
  • 1 credit year 3 NURSING 9276 (L/SNT1) - LA SPEZIA
  • 1 credit year 3 NURSING 9276 (L/SNT1) - SAVONA
  • 1 credit year 3 NURSING 9276 (L/SNT1) - CHIAVARI
• Scientific Disciplinary Sector: MED/09
• Language: Italian
• Location:
  • GE SAN MARTINO
  • GE ASL 3
  • GE GALLIERA
  • IMPERIA
  • THE SPICE
  • SAVONA
  • CHIAVARI
• Period: 2nd Semester
• Modules: This teaching is a module of:
  • __CLINICAL NURSING IN CRITICAL AREA
• Teaching Material: __AULAWEB

Objectives and Contents

Educational Objectives (Detail) and Learning Outcomes

• Educational Objectives (Detail):
  • Framework of the main pathological conditions of Urgency/Emergency Medicine in Critical Area
  • Know the principles for managing emergency and urgent clinical situations, applying the necessary first aid interventions.
• Expected Learning Outcomes: In particular, at the end of the course, the student will know the basic notions of the main problems of Emergency Medicine, will recognize the person with acute medical pathology who requires immediate intervention, will critically evaluate the care of the person at risk of survival or with high instability in the maintenance of vital functions. He will distinguish the basic elements of the main classes of drugs used in emergencies, he will recognize the variability of response, the signs and symptoms of adverse effects. The student will recognize and critically evaluate the peculiarities of the critical area in the area of ​​Emergency Medicine.

Prerequisites

The knowledge acquired in previous curricular courses of those pathologies in the internal medicine (cardiology, pneumology) and neurological fields that may have presentation or potential treatment in the context of critical care nursing management

Teaching Methods

Frontal lessons with interactive stimuli

Program/Content

• Dyspnea (diagnosis and therapy)
• Chest pain (etiopathogenesis, elements of electrocardiography, e.c.g. and enzymatic monitoring, therapeutic bases of ischemic heart disease)
• Loss of consciousness (syncope, epileptic seizure, coma, pseudo-coma)
• Shock (cardiogenic, hypovolemic, anaphylactic, septic, neurogenic)
• Hypertensive emergency

Texts/Bibliography

• L. Sasso, A. Bagnasco, C. Gagliano, GENERAL AND CLINICAL NURSING Mc Graw Hill Milan 2012 – 3rd edition usable for the three-year period
• Chiaranda M., Urgencies and emergencies, 4th edition. Piccin 2016

Teachers and Commissions

• JASMINE GARAU
• LUCA PARENTI
• MARCO BOTTA
• FRANCESCA STEA
• DANIELA PIERLUIGI

Lessons

Start of Lessons

As per the teaching calendar, in the second semester of the third year

Lesson Schedule

The timetable for this teaching can be consulted at: EasyAcademy Portal

Exams

Exam Method

Written multiple choice quiz

Assessment Method

The exam evaluates the knowledge of the topics addressed during the course and the ability to analyze and reason through detailed questions.

An objective and broad evaluation of the scheduled topics is carried out

Exam Calendar

• Dates: 10/02/2026, 24/02/2026, 29/06/2026, 28/07/2026, 30/09/2026
• Time: 09:00
• Location: GENOA
• Type: PC TEST