MedInTO Medicine and Surgery

GENERAL SURGERY - module of General Thoracic Surgery

Chirurgia Toracica

Academic year 2022/2023

• GENERAL SURGERY (SCB0229)

Sommario del corso

• Course objectives
• Results of learning outcomes
• Course delivery
• Learning assessment methods
• Program
• Teaching tools

Course objectives

The objectives of the General Thoracic Surgery course are a) to know major surgical diseases of the chest and their pathophysiological consequences b) to develop ability in defining proper diagnostic preoperative protocols and surgical indications c) to acquire basic competence in safe management of chest drain

Results of learning outcomes

Knowledge of surgical diseases of the chest and their pathophysiology

Ability in defining preoperative management and surgical indications

Competence in safe management of chest drain

Course delivery

Frontal teaching

Learning assessment methods

Oral exam (final vote /30)

Program

1. Introduction - Preoperative functional evaluation - Surgical access and type of lung resection

2. Lung cancer: diagnosis, staging and surgical treatment

3. Infections and chronic infiammatory lung disease - Acute infective disease

4. Pneumothorax - Chest drain

5. Bullectomy, lung volume reduction and lung transplantation

6. Pleural empyema - Chylothorax

7. Recurrente pleural effusion - Pleural mesothelioma

8 Open and blunt chest trauma

9. Carcinoid - Lung metastases

10. Mediastinal tumors - Myasthenia gravis

11. Tracheal stenosis - Tracheal tumors

12. Chest wall tumors - Congenital chest wall deformity

• Teaching materials
• Exams and finals
• Go to Moodle
• Visit the forums