MECHANICAL CIRCULATORY ASSISTANCE SYSTEMS

Degree course: 
Academic year when starting the degree: 
2017/2018
Year: 
3
Academic year in which the course will be held: 
2019/2020
Course type: 
Compulsory subjects, characteristic of the class
Credits: 
2
Standard lectures hours: 
24
Detail of lecture’s hours: 
Lesson (24 hours)
Assessment: 
Voto Finale

To reach a complete knowledge on the main cardiac assist devices

Heart failure (definition, epidemiology, patophysiology, clinical presentation, diagnosis, medical and surgical treatment principles
Intra-aortic ballon pump
Ventricular assist devices
ECMO (introduction, techniques description, epidemiology, indications, implantation technique, monitoring, postoperative care and maintenence, ECMO weaning, decision making, future perspectives
Heart Transplantation (introduction, indications, surgical technique,principles of therapy, results, future perspectives)

R. Dionigi: Chirurgia, Ed. Elsevier,2017
Sabiston, Textbook of Surgery, ed. Elsevier - Health Sciences Division, 2016

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BEGHI CESARE