Neonatology

Course Information
TitleΝΕΟΓΝΟΛΟΓΙΑ / Neonatology
CodeΙΑ0300
FacultyHealth Sciences
SchoolMedicine
Cycle / Level1st / Undergraduate
Teaching PeriodWinter
CoordinatorElisavet Diamanti
CommonNo
StatusActive
Course ID200000298
Class Information
Academic Year2018 – 2019
Class PeriodSpring
Faculty Instructors
Weekly Hours2
Class ID
600128453
SectionInstructors
1. Α΄ΝΕΟΓΝΟΛΟΓΙΚΗ ΚΛΙΝΙΚΗ ΚΑΙ ΕΝΤΑΤΙΚΗ ΝΟΣΗΛΕΙΑ ΝΕΟΓΝ
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Course Type 2016-2020
  • Scientific Area
Course Type 2011-2015
Specific Foundation / Core
Mode of Delivery
  • Face to face
Digital Course Content
Erasmus
The course is also offered to exchange programme students.
Language of Instruction
  • Greek (Instruction, Examination)
Prerequisites
Required Courses
  • ΙΑ0377 Clinical Skills Laboratory
  • ΙΑ0246 Human Reproduction
  • ΙΑ0247 Diagnostic Imaging 1
  • ΙΑ0248 Diagnostic Imaging 2
  • ΙΑ0255 Genetics
  • ΙΑ0256 General Physiology
  • ΙΑ0269 Applied Physiology
  • ΙΑ0273 Medical Biology
  • ΙΑ0275 Medical Law and Ethics
  • ΙΑ0282 Histology-Embryology 1
  • ΙΑ0283 Histology-Embryology 2
  • ΙΑ0291 Clinical Embryology
  • ΙΑ0297 Microbiology I
  • ΙΑ0298 Microbiology 2
  • ΙΑ0339 Pharmacology I
  • ΙΑ0340 Pharmacology II
  • ΙΑ0400 Principles of Clinical Nutrition and Medical Nutrition
Learning Outcomes
Following successful attendance of the course the student should be capable to: 1. Take history and perform clinical examination of the healthy term neonate and recognize the clinical signs suggesting potentially pathological underlying condition 2. To perform basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation in emergent situations and treat the common neonatal problems (i.e. jaundice, respiratory distress) 3. To diagnose and treat the problems of the preterm neonates 4. To evaluate the parameters measured by the monitors 5. To evaluate the results of the main laboratory tests (whole blood count, hematocrit, hemoglobin, platelets, CRP, blood gases, biochemical tests) 6. To perform the long-term follow up of the high risk neonates and recognize the long-tern consequences of the neonatal problems
General Competences
  • Apply knowledge in practice
  • Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
  • Adapt to new situations
  • Make decisions
  • Work autonomously
  • Work in teams
  • Be critical and self-critical
  • Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
The Neonatology course offers the students the chance to get familiar with the standard care of the normal newborn as well as the problems of the preterm and severely ill neonate and their reatment. Contents of the course: History and clinical examination, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, stabilization and transport of the neonate, birth injuries, intrauterine growth restriction, infants of diabetic mothers, prematurity, respiratory problems of the preterm and term neonate, mechanical ventilation, intracranial hemorrhage, neonatal seizures, congenital and perinatal infections, neonatal jaundice, hematological problems, metabolic problems, emergent surgical problems.
Keywords
neonates, preterms, respiratory distress, infections, seizures, cerebral hemorrhage, asphyxia,
Educational Material Types
  • Slide presentations
  • Book
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
  • Use of ICT in Course Teaching
  • Use of ICT in Communication with Students
  • Use of ICT in Student Assessment
Description
power point, video projections, e mail
Course Organization
ActivitiesWorkloadECTSIndividualTeamworkErasmus
Lectures512.0✓
Exams20.1
Other / Others20.1
Total552.1
Student Assessment
Description
The students are evaluated during the lectures with multiple choic questions releative to the lecture and with writen exams at the end of the course.
Student Assessment methods
  • Written Exam with Multiple Choice Questions (Summative)
  • Written Exam with Short Answer Questions (Summative)
Bibliography
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
Διανέμεται το σύγγραμμα Νεογνολογία, το οποίο γράφουν τα μέλη ΔΕΠ του Τομέα που διδάσκουν το μάθημα. Το σύγγραμμα διανέμεται μέσω του Εύδοξος.
Additional bibliography for study
1.Cloherty and Stark's Manual of Neonatal Care 8th edition, by Hansen, Anne R.; Eichenwald, Eric C.; Stark, Ann R.; Martin, Camilia R. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2016. 2.Textbook of Neonatal Resuscitation (NRP), 7th Ed by Gary M. Weiner, MD,FAAP and Jeanette Zaichkin, RN,MN,NNP-BC, American Academy of Pediatrics and American Heart Association 2016. 3.Neonatology: Management, Procedures, On Call Problems, Diseases, and Drugs. 7th edition. by Tricia Lacy Gomella MD., McGraw Medical, 2013 4.Avery's Diseases of the Newborn, 10th Edition. By Christine A. Gleason, MD and Sandra E Juul, MD, Elsevier, 2018.
Last Update
18-02-2019