Surgery I

General

• Code: 278-190304
• Semester: 3rd
• Study Level: Undergraduate
• Course type: Special Background
• Teaching and exams language: Greek
• Teaching Methods (Hours/Week): Theory (3)
• ECTS Units: 2
• Course homepage: https://moodle.teithe.gr/course/index.php?categoryid=196
• Instructors: Moschos Ioannis
• Class Schedule:
  • Fri 16:00 - 19:00: Αμφιθέατρο Αλέξανδρος

Course Contents

• Pre-operative preparation and assessment of patient – complicating factors and comorbidities.
• Anaesthesiology elements.
• Post-operative care, general post-operative complications, prevention & treatment.
• Surgical diseases: types of surgery, breast diseases – stomach diseases – duodenal diseases.
• Vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, thromboprophylaxis.
• Shock – types – treatment.
• Colon and rectal diseases.
• Pancreas and gall bladder diseases.
• Acute abdomen – acute appendicitis – peritonitis – ileum.
• Cardiac surgery.
• Burns – chest injuries.

Educational Goals

The aim of the module is to provide students with the necessary knowledge for the recognition of the semiotics of organ-specific surgical conditions, their surgical treatment and the provision of appropriate nursing care. Upon successful completion of the theory the student will be able to identify surgical conditions and how healthcare professionals approach patients for diagnosis and provision of nursing care.

General Skills

• Adapting to new situations.
• Decision-making.
• Working independently.
• Team work.
• Project planning and management.
• Respect for difference and multiculturalism.
• Showing social, professional and ethical responsibility and sensitivity to gender issues.
• Criticism and self-criticism.
• Working in an interdisciplinary environment.
• Production of free, creative and inductive thinking.

Teaching Methods

• Face to face.

Use of ICT means

• Powerpoint presentations.
• Support of the learning process through the electronic platform moodle.

Teaching Organization

Students Evaluation

• Written exams.