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About Study Course

ECTS:5
Course supervisor:Zane Ābola
Study type:Full time
Course level:Doctor
Target audience:Medicine
Language:Latvian
Study course description Full description, Full time
Branch of science:Clinical medicine

Objective

To provide and enhance the theoretical knowledge and practical skills in pediatric neurosurgery, per the pediatric surgical specialty’s requirements to prepare the doctor for certification in the specialty of pediatric surgery.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

1.- to define conservative and surgical treatment indications of central and peripheral nervous system for children at various ages.
- to draft the examination and treatment plan for patients with acute central and peripheral nervous system diseases.
- To orientate with the diagnostic methods and instruments used in pediatric neurosurgery, as well as the surgical treatment options and principles.
To learn:
• detailed theoretical knowledge of emergency situations in pediatric neurosurgery for children of various ages.
• conservative and surgical treatment indications and their application in surgical emergencies of central and peripheral nervous system diseases for children at various ages.
• diagnostic methods, instruments and apparatuses, and practical skills for diagnostic and treatment manipulations used in pediatric neurosurgery.
• to draft an examination and treatment plan for patients with acute and chronic central and peripheral nervous system diseases.

Skills

1.- To determine the indications for central and peripheral nervous system surgical treatment.
- To provide qualified post-operative treatment for patients after central and peripheral nervous system surgeries.

Competence

1.- To provide emergency assistance for central and peripheral nervous system pathologies for children at various ages.