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Differential Diagnostics and Current Issues in Treatment of Internal Diseases (Cardiology)
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:3.00
Study Course Accepted:28.07.2020 16:21:51
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | ISK_200 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Clinical Medicine; Internal Medicine | Target Audience: | Medicine | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Jūlija Voicehovska | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Department of Internal Diseases | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Riga, 2 Hipokrata Street, isk rsu[pnkts]lv, +371 67042139 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 0 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 0 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 0 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 8 | Class Length (academic hours) | 4 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 32 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 32 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Preliminary knowledge of propaedeutics, pathology, pharmacology, immunology, dermatology, biochemistry. Students should know the topics of previous internal diseases courses. | ||||||||
| Objective: | Students learn the latest updates and issues of diagnosis, differential diagnosis and treatment in the field of Cardiology. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Clinical manifestations of atherosclerosis in internal medicine; dyslipidemia: update of differential diagnosis and management. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Arterial hypertension, differential diagnosis and current issues in treatment. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 3 | Acute Coronary syndrome. Evaluation, differential diagnosis, current issues. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 4 | Chronic coronary artery disease (CAD), assessment, differential diagnosis and current issues in treatment. Heart failure differential diagnosis and treatment updates | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 5 | Atrial fibrillation, etiology, evaluation, differential diagnosis and current issues in treatment. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 6 | Acquired valve defects: clinical symptoms, assessment, treatment approach, indications for surgery. Infectious endocarditis diagnosis, treatment updates. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 7 | Pulmonary embolism: assessment, treatment approaches, latest updates. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 8 | Acute situations in cardiology. Life-threatening arrhythmias. | Classes | 1.00 | METC | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Individual work with patient – history collection, interpretation of examinations, development of a treatment plan, formulation of a possible diagnosis; establishment of a patient's disease history under the lecturer's and physician's supervision; presentation and defence of study research work. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | According to State Exam evaluation criteria. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Test (Semester) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | The acquisition of study subjects results in knowledge of the most important etiology of cardiovascular diseases, pathogenesis, diagnostic criteria, differential diagnosis and treatment. Students will learn about the principles of filling medical documentation in hospital conditions. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Able to communicate with patients and colleagues, identify cardiovascular diseases listed in the study description, their severity and pattern/gait, differentiate them, justify diagnosis, prescribe the necessary investigative plan and assess results, prescribe treatment for certain patients, design the necessary medical documentation. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | The acquired competencies of the study course will allow purposeful and structured examination of the patient's history, assessment of the patient's vital signs (namely, patient's state of consciousness, breathing, heart rate, central and peripheral pulse, arterial blood pressure, blood oxygen saturation, body temperature, diuresis) the components and symptomatology that affect it will allow the patient's health status to be evaluated, normality and deviation interpreted, and the finding and specific situation to be attributed, and the next tactic to decide. It will allow to recognize acute medical conditions, to organize timely assistance, to interpret the results of various examinations and formulate the appropriate conclusions, to plan treatment tactics. The acquired competencies will allow to perform manipulations appropriate to the respective pathological condition, to write prescriptions, to fill in medical documentation in accordance with the requirements of regulatory enactments. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | A.Kalvelis. Kardioloģija. Rīga, 2018 | ||||||||
| 2 | A.Lejnieks. Klīniskā medicīna. 1.grāmata.Nacionālais apgāds, 2010 | ||||||||
| 3 | A.Kalvelis. Klīniskā elektrokardioloģija | ||||||||
| 4 | Braunwalds Heart Disease: A textbook of cardiovascular medicine | ||||||||
