The following topics will be covered in the Surgical Semeiotics Module:
- Medical history (family history, personal physiological, remote pathological, proximate pathological)
- General physical examination: somatic conformation, nutritional status, decubitus, facies, skin
- Non-invasive instrumental semiotics (ultrasound, ECG, traditional radiology, CT, MRI, nuclear medicine) and invasive (endoscopy, biopsy, interventional radiology)
- Pain: type (nociceptic, neuropathic, idiopathic), location (somatic, visceral, referred and mixed), postoperative pain, chronic pain
- Objective examination of the swelling
- Objective examination of continuous solutions (wounds, sores, ulcers, fistulas and fissures), scars and burns
- Semiotics of the digestive system (nausea, dysphagia, dyspepsia, regurgitation, reflux, vomiting, digestive hemorrhages, bowel changes)
- Semiotics of the urinary system with alterations in diuresis and urination
- Objective examination of the abdomen with identification of painful points (epigastric, cholecystic, pancreatic, appendicular, ureteral and renal) and execution of the main semiological maneuvers
- Rectal examination
- Vaginal exploration
- Positioning of nasogastric tube
- Positioning of bladder catheter
- Physical examination of the neck and thyroid
- Objective examination of the breast
- Physical examination of the main lymph node stations (cervical, axillary, inguinocrural, popliteal, epitrochlear)
- Peripheral vascular physical examination