SCIENZE INTERDISCIPLINARI I

Academic Year 2019/2020 - 2° Year
Teaching Staff Credit Value: 6
Scientific field
  • MED/31 - Otorhinolaryngology
  • MED/42 - Hygiene and public health
Taught classes: 42 hours
Term / Semester:
ENGLISH VERSION

Learning Objectives

  • Otorhinolaryngology

    ​Know the main notions of anatomy and patho-physiology of the auditory and vestibular

  • General and Applied Hygiene

    At the end of the course the student must know: the basic principles of health management, the organization and the complexity of the National Health Service, with particular reference to the Prevention Department and the hospital, understanding and knowing how to apply the basic management rules of the clinical risk and infection prevention in the clinical setting.


Course Structure

  • Otorhinolaryngology

    Frontal lessons

  • General and Applied Hygiene

    1. Knowing the techniques, tools and set of skills through which management activities can be undertaken.

    2. Know and understand the organizational and economic contexts of the National Health Service.

    3. Know and know how to apply the principles of health promotion.

    4. Know the departmental and district organization.

    5. Know the operation of the Prevention Department.

    6. Understanding complexity in health care and clinical risk.

    7. Know and know how to apply the rules and procedures to prevent healthcare-related infections (ICA)

    8. Know and be able to apply the practice of sanitation and disinfection.


Detailed Course Content

  • Otorhinolaryngology
    1. Acoustic neuroma
    2. Auditory canal atresia or stenosis
    3. Auricular perichondritis
    4. Autoimmune inner ear disease
    5. Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo
    6. Bell's palsy
    7. Cholesteatoma
    8. Chronic suppurative otitis media
    9. Conductive hearing loss
    10. Dizziness
    11. Ear barotrauma
    12. Ear drainage
    13. Ear pain
    14. Earwax impaction
    15. Eustachian tube dysfunction
    16. Facial nerve tumors
    17. Fluid behind the eardrum
    18. Glomus jugulare tumor
    19. Glomus tympanicum tumor
    20. Labyrinthitis and vestibular neuritis
    21. Mastoiditis
    22. Meniere's disease
    23. Middle ear infection
    24. Otosclerosis
    25. Perilymph fistula
    26. Ramsay Hunt syndrome
    27. Ruptured eardrum
    28. Sensorineural hearing loss
    29. Sudden sensorineural hearing loss
    30. Superior semicircular canal dehiscense syndrome
    31. Temporal bone trauma
    32. Tinnitus
  • General and Applied Hygiene

    1. Health management

    2. The organizational and economic contexts of the National Health Service

    3. Health promotion

    4. The departmental and district organization

    5. The Department of Prevention

    6. Clinical risk

    7. Hospital infections

    8. Sanitation and disinfection


Textbook Information

  • Otorhinolaryngology

    - Otorinolaringoiatria. Albera – Rossi. Edizioni Minerva Medica. Torino

    - Trattato di Otorinolaringoiatria ed Audiologia. Pignataro L., A. Cesarani, G. Felisati, A. Schindler. EdiSes.

  • General and Applied Hygiene

    - Igiene. M Triassi, G. Aggazzotti, M Ferrante. II° edizione, Ildeson-gnocchi editore

    - S. Barbuti, E. Bellelli, G.M. Fara. G. Giammanco: IGIENE. Monduzzi Editore, Bologna

    - C. Signorelli: Elementi di metodologia epidemiologica. Società Editrice Universo, Roma.