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CLINICA DELLA COMUNICAZIONE
Module PEDIATRIA GENERALE E SPECIALISTICA

Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher: Andrea DI CATALDO

Expected Learning Outcomes

Learning physiology, pathology, clinical and laboratory approach, therapy related to growing individuals, specific issues of preventive pediatrics, pediatric diseases from neonatal age through adolescence

Course Structure

Academic lessons; practice according to specific calendar scheduled by the Coordinator of the Course.

Required Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of human anatomy and physiology

Attendance of Lessons

Attendance, compulsory in the terms indicated by the teaching regulations, is in any case strongly recommended as the approach to the child is one of the fundamental requirements for the speech therapist

Detailed Course Content

Neonatology

The healthy newborn

The newborn infant and newborn care

Low birth weight newborn

Neonatal asphyxia

Neonatal jaundice

Neonatal seizures

Neonatal infections

Neonatal respiratory distress syndrome

Methods to evaluate growth. Bone age

Breast feeding

Milk formula

Neonatal screening

Vaccination

Growth failure

Nutritional defects

Infectious diseases

Exanthematous diseases

Viral diseases

Visceral Leishmaniasis

Asthma

Respiratory infections

Cystic fibrosis

Celiac disease

Gastroenteritis

Primary immunodeficiencies

Phenylketonuria

Endocrine diseases

Congenital hypothiroidism

Diabetes

Fever of unknown origin

Mendelian diseases

Chromosomic diseases

Normal hematology values trough childhood

Anemias

Thalassemias

Sickle Cell Disease

Iron deficiency anemia

Splenomegalies

Thrombocytopenias

Leukemias and lymphomas

Tumours in children

Textbook Information

  1. Bartolozzi – Pediatria. Principi e pratica clinica – Casa Editrice Masson
  2. Zuccotti – Elementi essenziali di Pediatria per Corsi di Laurea triennali

Course Planning

 SubjectsText References
1Il neonato ed il lattanteZuccotti pag. 43-69
2Malattie esantematicheZuccotti pag. 175-194
3PertosseBartolozzi pag 721-726
4MeningiteZuccotti pag. 146-154
5LeishmaniosiBartolozzi pag 942-945
6RickettsiosiBartolozzi pag 789-791
7PiastrinopeniaBartolozzi pag 1275-1278
8Leucemia e tumoriBartolozzi pag 1295-1330

Learning Assessment

Learning Assessment Procedures

Oral exam

Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises

Normally the student presents two arguments among the ones object of the lessons. The student chooses the first, the professor the second
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