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LEARNING OUTCOMES
Aims and Scope
After completing the course the students would be able to:
- know which are the abnormal findings, if an operation is urgent (for blood needs),
- what are the pathological specimens and materials,
- manage them, in order to have a complete and significant prompt diagnosis and,
- manage biological and surgical specimen and materials.
The aim is the introduction of the students to safe validation of the preoperative and postoperative laboratory findings and the prompt information of the internists or surgeons for the pathological ones.
SYLLABUS
1. Pre-and post-operative laboratory and imaging examination
2. Urgent operations The laboratory examinations and support
3. Blood need. Preoperative preparation in planned operations and specific operations (Thoracic,cardiac and vascular operations)
4. Infections in surgical patients
5. Management of biopsy and surgical specimens
6. Neoplasmatic diseases (general consideration)
7. Diseases of the digestive tract. Management of the specimen
8. Thoracic and cardiac diseases Management of the specimen
9. Haematological diseases. The importance of lumph nodes and its correct management
10. Urological diseases and diseases of the reproductive tract in men and women, Laboratory investigation.
11. Specimens in Neurosurgery and orthopedic diseases
12. Breast , endocrine glands, skin lesions
13. The importance of the precise and prompt diagnosis for the patient