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Head and neck diseases - Module of Audiology
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Audiology
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Academic year 2023/2024
- Course ID
- SCB0219A
- Teacher
- Giovanni Succo
- Year
- 4th year
- Teaching period
- Second semester
- Type
- Basic
- Credits/Recognition
- 1 (8 hours of lectures, 4 hours of exercises)
- Course disciplinary sector (SSD)
- MED/32 - audiology
- Delivery
- Blended
- Language
- English
- Attendance
- Mandatory
- Type of examination
- Quiz
- Type of learning unit
- modulo
- Modular course
- Head and Neck Diseases (SCB0219)
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Sommario del corso
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Course objectives
The student must acquire adequate theoretical and practical knowledge in Audiology fields, for adult and pediatric age. The competencies must concern the anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology and clinic.
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Results of learning outcomes
At the end of the course the students have the fundamentals of the topographical anatomy of the auditory and the vestibular system; in more detail, the students must have specific knowledge on clinical case, semeiological data, diagnostic imaging and principles of diagnosis and medical and/or surgical therapy.
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Program
Elements of anatomy, physiology and semeiotics of the ear. Methods of diagnosis; subjective and objective audiometry tests, radiological diagnosis. Types of hearing loss, infant hearing loss, presbycusis. Pathologies of the outer ear (malformations, inflammation and obstructions). Pathologies of the middle ear (secretive otitis media, acute and chronic purulent otitis media, infant otitis, tympanomsclerosis, fibro-adhesive otitis media) and complications. Otosclerosis, acoustic neurinoma, surgical treatment of severe hearing loss: cochlear implants. Anatomy and physiology of the vestibular apparatus, methods of diagnosis, types of vertigo, Ménière’s disease.
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Course delivery
The course includes 10 hours of lectures.
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Learning assessment methods
The course program will be check with the students at the end of the course.
The exam will consist of a multiple choice test (16 questions).
Suggested readings and bibliography
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- Book
- Title:
- Otorhinolaringology
- Year of publication:
- 2021
- Publisher:
- Minerva Medica
- Author:
- Roberto Albera, Andrea Canale, Giovanni Cavallo, Giancarlo Pecorari, Giovanni Succo
- ISBN
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- Required:
- Yes
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Notes
Students with DSA or disabilities are kindly requested to take note of the reception services and support services offered by the University of Turin, and in particular of the procedures required for exam support.
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