LOG13B - PEDIATRIC SURGERY

courses

ID:

LOG13B

Duration (hours):

20

CFU:

SSD:

CHIRURGIA PEDIATRICA E INFANTILE

Located in:

CHIETI

Url:

Course Details:

SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPY/CORSO GENERICO Year: 2

Year:

2025

Course Catalogue:

https://unich.coursecatalogue.cineca.it/af/2025?co...

Date/time interval

Primo Semestre (01/10/2025 - 31/01/2026)

Course Objectives

To provide the students with basic elements of knowledge of the main neonatal and pediatric diseases of surgical interest that are cause of dysphagia
To provide basic elements of diagnostic and therapeutic approach to pediatric dysphagia as speech and swallowing therapist

Course Prerequisites

As required by the educational system.

Teaching Methods

Frontal lesson

Assessment Methods

Oral examination aimed to test basic knowledge and the ability
interpret / analyze the main neonatal and pediatric pathologies of surgical interest as cause of dysphagia.
Examination at the Medical School - Chieti

Texts

G.B.Parigi – Chirurgia Pediatrica (Ed. Elsevier – Masson)
J Scott McMurray et al. - Multidisciplinary management of pediatric voice and swallowing disorders (Ed. Springer 2020)

Physiologic deglutition in children, from fetal life to scholar age. Main congenital or acquired diseases of surgical interest as cause of pediatric dysphagia (cleft lip and palate, tie tongue, macroglossia, esophageal atresia, other congenital intestinal anomalies, neurologically impaired children, gastro-esophageal reflux, caustic ingestion, foreign bodies ingestion). Diagnostic and therapeutic approach to dysphagia in children

Course Language

Italian

More information

Reception for the students is the Director’s office at Pediatric Surgery Unit - "Santo Spirito" Hospital, Pescara (via Fonte Romana n.8 – north wing - II floor) preceded by telephone appointment (085 4252589 – secretary 085 4252820) or by e-mail: gabriele.lisi@unich.it