Drug Therapy During Pregnancy and Breast-Feeding
Drug Therapy in Pediatric Patients
Drug Therapy in Geriatric Patients
Local Anesthetics
General Anesthetics
Opioid (Narcotic) Analgesics, Opioid Antagonists, and Nonopioid Centrally Acting Analgesics
Pain Management in Patients with Cancer
Sedative-Hypnotic Drugs
Drugs for Hypertension
Drugs for Heart Failure
Drugs for Angina Pectoris
Anticoagulant, Antiplatelet, and Thrombolytic Drugs
Prophylaxis of Coronary Heart Disease: Drugs That Help Normalize Cholesterol and Triglyceride Levels
Drugs for Deficiency Anemias
Drugs for Diabetes Mellitus

Pharmacology text books, professor’s notes.

General aspects on Infectious Diseases

Infection and infectious disease

The chain of transmission

The body's defenses against infectious diseases

Diagnostic procedure and guiding concepts of therapy, types of isolation

Globalization and infectious diseases

The Infectious syndromes (epidemiology, etiology, clinical, diagnostic and diagnostic and therapeutic aspects)
• Sepsis and endocarditis
-SIRS, sepsis, septic shock
• Acute respiratory syndrome
• Acute neurological syndrome
        -Meningitis and infectious encephalitis
• Diarrheal syndrome
• Acute jaundice syndrome
• Febrile exanthematous syndromes
• Feverish syndromes returning from the tropics

HIV infection / AIDS

Viral hepatitis

WHO-EU. Infections and infectious diseases A manual for nurses and midwives in the WHO EuropeanRegion. WHO 2001, available for free at: http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0013/102316/e79822.pdf

Scientific papers published by international journals on the topics covered will be made available.

-The microbiome: eubiosis and dysbiosis, physiopathogenetic mechanisms associated with microbiome alterations, treatment of microbiome alterations through probiotic integration, treatment of microbiome alterations through diet, characteristics and modulation of the gut-brain-microbiome axis, microbiome and health of women and children.
- Main bases of integrated medicine applied to women's health
- Appropriate food models for women at different stages of life, including vegetarian and vegan diets in general, during pregnancy and breastfeeding

Mayes’ Midwifery. Macdonald, Johnson. Elsevier. 2017
Didactic material (lessons in pdf, papers, etc.) delivered by the Professor

Preparation of environment and patient to surgical procedures
Use of anesthetics. Management of preanesthesia phase
Intra and post-surgical phase
Management of central and peripheral venous lines and surgical drainages
Management of surgical wounds and post-surgical pain
Monitoring in Intensive Care Unit
Organ failure. Physiopathology and treatment
Mechanical Ventilation
Extracorporeal removal techniques
The patient in shock
Stupor and coma

-AACN Essentials of Critical Care Nursing, 4th Ed.
Authors: S. Burns, S. Delgado
McGraw Hill Editor
-Critical Care Nursing: Science and Practice
di Sheila Adam, Sue Osborne, e al.
OUP Oxford Ed
-Guida al monitoraggio in area critica.
GD Giusti
Maggioli Editore
-Oh. Manuale di terapia Intensiva
Bersten AD, Soni N
Elsevier Masson Editore

• Surgical Basic Principles
• Shock

• Preoperative Surgery
• Principles of Preoperative and Operative Surgery
• Surgical Infections and choice of antibiotics
• Minimally invasive surgery

• Trauma and Critical care
• Management of acute trauma


• Head and Neck
◦ Thyroid
◦ Parathyroid

• Breast
◦ Diseases of the breast
◦ breast tumors

• Endocrine Surgery
◦ Endocrine pancreas
◦ Adrenal glands
◦ MEN

• Esophagus
◦ Hiatal Hernia and GERD
◦ Esophageal motility Disorders
◦ Esophageal neoplasms

• Abdomen
◦ Hernias
◦ Stomach
◦ Small Intestine
◦ Acute Intestinal Hemorrhages
◦ Acute Abdomen
◦ Appendix
◦ Colon and Rectum
◦ Anus
◦ The Liver
◦ Biliary Tract
◦ Exocrine pancreas
◦ Spleen


• The Chest
◦ Lung
◦ Lung neoplasms

• Gynecology Surgery

• Vascular Surgery

• Pediatric surgery

1. SABISTON TEXTBOOK OF SURGERY The biological basis of moern surgical practice. Elsevier Saunders. 20TH EDITION

2. The Washington Manual of Surgery 2016. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins