Universitat Internacional de Catalunya - BarcelonaSurgical Gastrointestinal System
Main language of instruction: Catalan
Head instructor
Dr. Josep Maria BADIA - jmbadia@uic.es
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The course "Surgical Digestive System" aims students to acquire the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary for the detection, diagnosis and management of diseases of the digestive system from the surgical point of view.
The content is coordinated and complements the subjects of "Digestive System Medical" and "Surgical Clinical Practice."
To take this course is essential to have approved:
- Structure and Function: digestive and endocrine system
- Medical Pathophysiology
- Surgical Pathophysiology
- Cell Biology
To train students in the recognition of major surgical diseases of the digestive system to properly establish its prevention, diagnosis and therapeutic guidance.
To acquire the knowledge and clinical skills needed to identify the main problems of the digestive pathology from the surgical point of view, and guide their surgical diagnosis and treatment.
To acquire the basic surgical skills adjusted to the level of student knowledge 4th.
1. Understand and recognize the effects, mechanisms and manifestations of digestive disease on the structure and function of the human body.
2 Obtain and develop a medical history digestive containing all relevant information.
3 Do a proper physical examination of the abdomen and the digestive system.
4 Be able to develop a trial initial diagnosis and establish a rational diagnostic strategy.
5 Set the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment, applying principles based on the best information available and safe clinic.
6 detect life-threatening situations and make their initial treatment.
7 indicate the most appropriate treatment for the most prevalent acute and chronic and terminally ill patients.
8 Consider and propose preventive measures appropriate to each clinical situation.
9 assume their role in the actions of prevention and protection from diseases, injuries or accidents and the maintenance and promotion of health, both individual and community.
1 To master the terminology and medical language of surgical specialties.
2 To know the basis of a proper physical signs of disease and gastrointestinal surgery. The physical examination includes abdominal inspection, palpation, assessing the ability of the muscle wall depression, pain triggered by exploration and its possible origin in peritoneal irritation, detecting masses and their characteristics, detection the visceromegàlies (liver and spleen) and inguinal lymphadenopathy, abdominal auscultation noise and its characteristics. It is also essential knowledge of rectal and vaginal
3. To lintegrate the elements of anamnesis and physical examination as a syndrome that corresponds to the expression of the disease.
4 To understand the different techniques in the diagnosis of digestive diseases.
5 To interpret simple abdominal radiography, esofagogastrointestinal, opaque enema, abdominal ultrasound, CT and magnetic resonance imaging.
6 To know the indications, contraindications and potential complications of gastroscopy, colonoscopy, endoscopic retrograde cholangiography, endoscopic ultrasound and endoscopic sphincterectomy.
7 To understand the surgical treatment of digestive diseases.
8 To know the indications, contraindications and potential complications of most frequent surgical procedures, the postoperative management of gastrointestinal surgery, the indications and the handling of tubes and drainages.
9 To understand, evaluate and know the utilization of sources of clinical and biomedical information to obtain, organize, interpret and communicate scientific information and care.
10 To understand the fundamentals of the relationship between professional and patient health sciences, the transmission of clinical information, informed consent and conflict resolution.
| Surgical Digestive Description |
| Esophageal-gastric pathological anatomy. |
| Benign diaphragm and esophagus pathology. Diaphragmatic hernias. Reflux surgery. |
| Trauma of the esophagus and stomach. Traumatisms and structural anomalies of the esophagus and stomach. Mechanical pathology: acute dilation, Boerhave syndrome, gastric valve, bezoar. Strange bodies and perforations. |
| Metabolic or bariatric surgery. Physiopathological bases, indications, techniques and complications. |
| Esophageal neoplasms. Clinic, diagnosis and surgical / oncological management. |
| Gastroduodenal neoplasms. Gastrointestinal tumor surgery. |
| Techniques, indications and complications of esophageal and gastro-duodenal surgery. |
| Benign colon surgery. Surgical treatment of inflammatory bowel disease and other non-neoplastic diseases. |
| Diverticulosis. Diverticular colon disease. Other intestinal diverticulosis. Meckel's Diverticle. |
| Colorectal cancer. Colon and rectum tumors. Anal canal cancer |
| Intestinal occlusion: paralytic and mechanical. Diagnostic and treatment algorithm. |
| Diagnostic and therapeutic strategies in colo-rectal cancer |
| Acute abdomen and acute appendicitis. Etiology, medical-surgical management and complications. |
| Peritonitis of infectious cause. Secondary peritonitis. Postoperative peritonitis. Abdominal compartment syndrome. Temporary abdominal closure. |
| Differential Diagnosis of Acute Abdomen. Forms of presentation, diagnostic-therapeutic algorithms |
| Management of secondary peritonitis. Abdominal compartment syndrome. |
| Introduction to laparoscopic surgery |
| Digestive radiology. Techniques, indications, diagnostic algorithms. |
| AP Liver 2. Liver and liver tumors. Pseudotumors and benign tumors. Malignant tumors: hepatocarcinoma, cholangiocarcinoma, angiosarcoma. Benign and malignant tumors of the biliary tree. Pathological anatomy of the gallbladder and exocrine pancreas. |
| Gastrointestinal radiology. Indications of diagnostic imaging techniques of gastrointestinal diseases. |
| Benign anorectal pathology. Hemorrhoids, perianal infection, fissure, solitary straight ulcer, rectal prolapse |
| Hepato-Splenic infection. Hepatic abscess, hidatidosis, splenic abscess. |
| Gallbladder lithiasis. Cholecystectomy. Cholecystitis and acute colangitis. |
| Anatomy and congenital anomalies of the pancreas. Acute pancreatitis: etiology, diagnosis, treatment. Surgical indications for acute pancreatitis. |
| Pancreatic cancer. Exocrine tumors, cystic tumors. Endocrine pancreatic tumors. |
| Acute pancreatitis. Congenital abnormalities. Acute pancreatitis: etiology, diagnosis, treatment. Surgical indications for acute pancreatitis. |
| Chronic pancreatitis. Treatment of pancreatic insufficiency. Surgical indications for chronic pancreatitis. Pancreatic transplant. |
| Pancreatic cancer. Exocrine tumors, cystic tumors. Endocrine pancreatic tumors. |
| Liver surgery. Primary and secondary hepatic tumors. |
| Liver transplant. Indications, technique, complications and results. |
| Surgical pathology of the biliary tract. Vesicular and neoplasm neoplasm. |
| Pathology of the abdominal wall. Hernias. |
| Abdominal trauma. |
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