Unit ADE - CLINICAL CARDIOLOGY
- Course
- Veterinary medicine
- Study-unit Code
- A001135
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Francesco Porciello
- Teachers
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- Francesco Porciello
- Hours
- 25 ore - Francesco Porciello
- CFU
- 1
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2018
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Learning activities
- A scelta dello studente
- Area
- A scelta dello studente
- Academic discipline
- VET/08
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- ITALIAN (foreign students can speak with the teacher in English)
- Contents
- Clinical evaluation, instrumental diagnostics and therapeutic approach, related to cardiological clinical cases.
- Reference texts
- F.PORCIELLO, F. BIRETTONI, A. CIOCCA, E.LEPRI, L.VENCO CARDIOLOGY OF DOG, CAT AND HORSE
TESTO ATLANTE Poletto Editore, 2010, 1st edition
The students are required to interact with the teacher through the UNISTUDIUM portal of the University where, in the space dedicated to the course, together with suggestions, recommendations and guidelines given by the teacher, is available teaching material under Slides, assignments, exercise tests, and multimedia files - Educational objectives
- To Know: The student must be aware of the etiopathogenesis of heart disease and the mechanisms of heart failure. He must know the basics of cardiac instrumental examinations. It must know the mechanisms of action of major cardiology use drugs
To Know how to do: the student must acquire sufficient practical skills to carry out the semiological examination of the cardiovascular apparatus; He must also acquire the ability to interpret the results of the instrumental tests useful in clinical cardiology. Finally, the student must be able to set up a suitable therapy for controlling left and right congestive heart failure and anterograd insufficiencyRegarding the descriptors of the didactic objectives, the course can be summarized as follows:
D1 - KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
The student must
- have knowledge of the methods of collecting and interpreting the clinical signs of cardiovascular diseases in dogs, cats and horses, learning to distinguish between similar signs caused by different diseases. On this basis, the student must learn to set up rational therapeutic protocols.
- know the methods of interpreting the results of instrumental tests and their meaning in a differential diagnostic key
- know the main therapeutic and clinical monitoring strategies applicable in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases
D2 - ABILITY TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
At the end of the training, the student must:
- knowing how to set up a cardiological diagnosis based on direct physical examination,
- know how to use the results of instrumental tests to confirm the diagnostic suspicion and quantify the severity of the disease,
- knowing how to set up an adequate therapeutic protocol
- know how to issue a prognosis and plan the monitoring of the animal's clinical condition.
D3 - AUTONOMY OF JUDGMENT
At the end of the training, the student must be able to:
- issue a diagnosis based on clinical symptoms and instrumental findings
- prescribe adequate therapy,
- issue a short and long-term prognosis.
D4 - COMMUNICATION SKILLS
At the end of the training, the student must be able to:
- produce a clinical report on the animals visited and be able to actively participate in cardiological briefings by discussing with people of the same level of preparation, presenting their assessments supported by appropriate arguments,
- demonstrate language properties in both written and oral form, as well as the ability to use sufficiently appropriate terminology for a correct approach to veterinary cardiology, also important for job interviews.
D5 - LEARNING SKILLS
At the end of the training, the student must be able to:
- consult and understand scientific texts, including innovative ones, bibliographic updates, regulatory provisions, in such a way as to use them in contexts that are not only usual for the profession, including research, but also original ones;
- have a sufficiently broad mastery of the subject to ensure an acceptable basis for continuing professional development throughout the life span, through continuous continuous training. - Prerequisites
- Teaching methods
- Practical lessons in the structures of the Teaching Veterinary Hospital conducted on reported clinical cases concerning the methodology of the particular objective examination of the cardiovascular system and its instrumental diagnostics.
Students will be guided in finding and interpreting clinical signs of disease on dogs, cats and horses referred to the Cardiology Service. Electrocardiographic traces, chest x-rays and echocardiographic acquisitions will also be submitted to the students; The diagnostic interpretation will be performed on this material. In some circumstances, to stimulate the personal commitment of each student, the class will be subdivided into small groups that will be invited to provide their diagnostic interpretations in competition among themselves. Answers given verbally by the different groups will be compared simultaneously with the diagnostic interpretation provided by the Teacher.
Outside of the lesson time, students are nevertheless invited to follow the clinical activities carried out at the Cardiology and Ultrasound service to interact with the Researchers and Grant Holders present in the same service. - Other information
- Learning verification modality
- During the course of the CIP Clinical Cardiology, the Teacher will test the frequency, practical-application skills, critical analysis and problem solving skills and the exercise tests proposed on UNISTUDIUM. In addition, the professor will test the contents of a schematic report, to be presented on UNISTUDIUM, on one of the clinical cases observed during the hours of activity, in which the symptomatology of the selected clinical case will be described, reconstituted etiopathogenesis and indicated appropriate therapy.
- Extended program
- Physical examination of animals with left and right heart failure. In this lesson students will have to visit some clinical cardiological cases and collect the signs of illness. For the subjects in question, it will also be required to propose the most appropriate therapy. During the lesson there will be several examples of auscultation of the heart that will have to be interpreted and referred to the various possible pathologies. (4 hours)
Electrocardiography and cardiac arrhythmia therapy. In this lesson students will have to interpret electrocardiographic records and set the most suitable therapy for the subject under study. (4 hours)
X-ray examination in cardiology. In this lesson students will have to interpret chest x-rays taken on subjects with heart, blood vessel and respiratory tract involvement. In relation to the different radiographic patterns, the most appropriate therapeutic options should be outlined. (4 hours)
Echocardiography. In this lesson, students will need to interpret a series of echocardiographic examinations, report what is observed in specific diseases and outline the most appropriate therapeutic approach. (4 hours)