Unit VETERINARY SURGICAL SEMIOTICS
- Course
- Veterinary medicine
- Study-unit Code
- GP005425
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Sara Nannarone
- Teachers
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- Sara Nannarone
- Hours
- 39 ore - Sara Nannarone
- CFU
- 3
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2023
- Offered
- 2026/27
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline cliniche veterinarie
- Sector
- VET/09
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The aim of the course is to provide students to acquire the necessary knowledge on how to restrain an animal, how to perform a general and specific examination in the clinical approach to the surgical case, while adequately interpreting the reported symptoms. Student should be able to perform a clinical examination of each system: locomotor, integumentary, genito-urinary, digestive, respiratory, visual, auditory and nervous. Student should be able to interpret instrumental and diagnostic imaging investigations.
- Reference texts
- recommended books:
Adams, La zoppicatura nei cavalli, Ed. Sbm, Noceto, Parma;
Arcelli, Leone: otiti nel cane e nel gatto, Poletto Editore, Milano 2001;
Slatter: Trattato di chirurgia dei piccoli animali; Ed. Sbm, Noceto, Parma
Fossum T.W. Small animal surgery, 5 ed. Mosby Editore.
Johnston S.A. e Tobias K.M. Veterinary surgery. Small animals, 2 ed. Elsevier
Powerpoint presentation are used during classes;
Other teaching material available through Unistudium
The teaching materials provided by the teacher are only a supplement to the textbooks and are not intended to replace them in any way. - Educational objectives
- D1 - KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING The student have to
-acquire the knowledge necessary for the recognition of the symptoms and the correct methodology that allows to reach the diagnosis of the major surgical pathologies
-acquire basic knowledge of instrumental and laboratory investigations.
D2 - APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
At the end of the training the student will be able to:
- perform neurological examination and examination of auditory and ophthalmic apparatus
- perform clinical examination of locomotor apparatus (lameness)
- perform clinical examination of the mouth and of the digestive system
- perform clinical examination of the respiratory system
- perform clinical examination of the integumentary system
D3 - MAKING JUDGMENT
At the end of the training the student will be able to:
- assess the presence of pathologies of surgical interest
- assess the symptoms of the main diseases of surgical interest.
D4 - COMMUNICATION
At the end of the training the student will be able to:
- organize, prepare and exhibit, to an audience made up of people of equal level of preparation, a presentation on a clinical case of surgical interest with their own evaluation supported by appropriate arguments,
- support an adversarial process with people of equal preparation and experts in different issues, of a regulatory, scientific, procedural and / or technological nature,
- demonstrate language properties in both written and oral form, as well as the ability to use terminology that is sufficiently appropriate for a correct approach to the profession, which is also important for job interviews.
D5 - LIFELONG LEARNING SKILLS
At the end of the training the student will be able to:
- consult and understand scientific texts, bibliographic updates, normative dictations, to use them in contexts not only usual for the profession, including research, but also original ones.
- possess a sufficiently broad mastery of the subject to guarantee an acceptable basis for continuing professional updating through ongoing lifelong learning.
Day-one competences ESEVT SOP 2023: 4,5,6,7,8,10,11,12,13,16,17,18,20,21,23,24 - Prerequisites
- Teaching methods
- Theoretical activity: in the classroom on all the topics listed in the program.
Practical activity: guided exercises at the facilities of the veterinary teaching hospital on the main topics included in the program and on the clinical cases received.
Self-directed learning activity:
• Collection of the signalment and history
• General Objective Examination (EOG)
• Particular Objective Examination (EOP) of specific systems
• Evaluation of symptoms
• Identification of collateral tests
• Setting up a differential diagnosis - Other information
- Learning verification modality
- Extended program
- Theoretical lessons:
Surgical case study methodology; clinical recording, patient restraint, clinical examination, medical history (2 hours). Physical examination of individual systems:
Integumentary system: swellings; evaluation of primary and secondary lesions (2 hours).
Locomotor system (small and large animals): semiotic examination of the musculoskeletal system; semiotic injections; static and dynamic tests (6 hours).
Examination of the auditory system (2 hours).
Examination of the visual system (4 hours).
Digestive system: observation of food grasping, swallowing, and bolus progression (2 hours).
Examination of the oral cavity, esophageal and gastric probing (2 hours);
Acute abdomen in equines (2 hours);
Genitourinary system (2 hours).
Respiratory system (2 hours).
Neurological examination (3 h). - Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile