Paediatric Surgery (BKK_002)
About Study Course
Objective
To provide the students with extended knowledge about common pediatric surgical diseases and congenital anomalies, possibilities of prenatal diagnosis and fetal surgery of them, possibilities of operative treatment, creation of postoperative care algorithms and evaluation of life quality criteria of the patients.
Prerequisites
Human anatomy and physiology, pathology, surgery, pediatrics.
Learning outcomes
Students acquire knowledge that allows description of:
• congenital and acquired gastrointestinal impenetrability in children;
• congenital anomalies of genitourinary tract;
• specialties of pediatric traumatology and orthopedics;
• acute hematogenous osteomyelitis in children;
• etiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment and prophylaxis of acute appendicitis in children;
• possibilities and role of prenatal diagnosis in congenital surgical pathologies;
• possible postoperative complications and avoidance of them;
• diagnosis, treatment and postoperative care of surgical pathologies of newborn and children.
On successful completion of the study course, students will be able to:
• get detailed patient history;
• perform physical examination of children;
• analyse gathered information;
• create an individual plan of diagnosis for each patient;
• create a plan of preoperative and postoperative care of children;
• define and motive expanded clinical diagnosis, based on differential diagnosis, as well as tactics of treatment (indications for operative and conservative treatment);
• prescribe drugs and pharmacological agents for diagnosis and treatment, taking into account effects and side effects, as well as ethical and deontological aspects of drug prescription.
On successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
• independently interpret the signs or symptoms of a given condition, to decide on data to be collected about a patient;
• assume responsibility in interpretation of the medical data, arriving at diagnosis and slecting appropriate tactic of treatment.
Study course planning
| Study programme | Study semester | Program level | Study course category | Lecturers | Schedule |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine, MF | 10 | Master’s | Required | Timurs Zurmutaī, Dzintars Ozols, Zane Ābola, Aigars Pētersons, Astra Zviedre, Jānis Upenieks, Arnis Eņģelis, Sandra Ozoliņa, Anete Rozentālberga, Daila Pugačevska, Jānis Karlsons, Agnese Rekēviča, Mohits Kakars | |
| Medicine, SSNMFz | 9 | Master’s | Required | Timurs Zurmutaī, Dzintars Ozols, Zane Ābola, Jānis Upenieks, Arnis Eņģelis, Sandra Ozoliņa, Anete Rozentālberga, Jānis Karlsons, Agnese Rekēviča, Mohits Kakars | |
| Medicine, SSNMF | 10 | Master’s | Required | Benedict-Douglas Sannwaldt, Timurs Zurmutaī, Dzintars Ozols, Zane Ābola, Jānis Upenieks, Arnis Eņģelis, Sandra Ozoliņa, Anete Rozentālberga, Jānis Karlsons, Agnese Rekēviča, Mohits Kakars |
