SURGICAL CLINIC I

General Module

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2015/2016

Type of Course:

Characterising

Optional/Mandatory:

Compulsory

Degree:

5-year Single Cycle Master's Degree Programme in VETERINARY MEDICINE

Disciplinary Sector:

Clinical Veterinary Surgery

Is part of:

SURGICAL CLINIC

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

CAREDDU Giovanni Mario

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

Prerequisites for the course of Clinical Surgery I are the knowledge and the passing of the exams of the following disciplines: anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, surgical semeiotics, general pathology, surgical pathology.

AF code:

A000977

Teaching period

First semester

Objectives

The course of Surgical Clinic I will focus on the symptoms, the diagnosis, the differential diagnosis and the treatment of the main pathologies of surgical interest of the various apparatuses in small animals. The clinical cases will be addressed through inspection, palpation and auscultation as well as any appropriate manual tests, and then move on to eventual specific instrumental examinations such as radiography and echography. The diagnosis, prognosis and possibilities of surgical treatment of the case will then be explained. The activities will be addressed at giving the student the ability to critically examine each clinical case presented, making use of the knowledge of the preparatory disciplines for the surgical clinic, in order to recognize the pathology responsible for the clinical symptomatology and to understand the proposed surgical therapies.

Contents

Clinical cases of small animals with the following diseases:
Skeletal and locomotor apparatus (lameness at an anterior limb, lameness at a posterior limb, hip dysplasia, rupture of Achille’s tendon, anterior cruciate ligament rupture, patella luxation, tarsal-metatarsal dislocation, osteosarcoma of the humerus, coxo-femoral luxation, abnormal growth of the radius-ulna, fracture of the femur, fracture of the tibia, fracture of the humerus, fracture of the radius-ulna, flattening of the femoral trochlea, aseptic necrosis of the femoral head, fracture of the jaw, cleft palate).
Digestive system (sublingual gland ectasia, intestinal intussusception, gastric torsion dilatation, megaesophagus).
Pathologies involving the respiratory system (pneumothorax, tracheal rupture, diaphragm rupture, flail chest, secondary neoplasm of the lungs, metaldehyde poisoning, laryngeal obstruction, brachycephalic syndrome).
Urinary system (penile urethral prolapse, bladder lithiasis, urethral lithiasis, hydronephrosis).
Other apparatus (splenopathy of surgical interest, perineal hernia, rectal prolapse, inguinal hernia, ascites, bite wounds, carcinoma with truffles, ulcers and sores of various origins, ocular pathologies affecting the eyelids, cornea, iris, of the crystalline).

Recommended Bibliography

Small Animal Surgery. T.W. Fossum. 5th Ed. Mosby, 2018.
Mechanisms of Disease in Small Animal Surgery. M.J. Bojrab. 3rd Ed. 2012.

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