Obstetrics

Code: ENF13435M

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: Health Sciences

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Presentation

It addresses content in the scope of women's health / illness throughout the reproductive cycle and in the climacteric period, in order to enable them to take care of these women / family.

Sustainable Development Goals

Saúde de qualidade - Assegurar uma vida saudável e promover o bem-estar para todos, em todas as idades.

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Igualdade de género - Alcançar a igualdade de gênero e empoderar todas as mulheres e meninas.

Learning Goals

OBJECTIVES
• Acquire knowledge and skills to care for the woman, during the preconceptional, conceptional, puerperal and the Newborn phases, in health situation and health diversion.
• Acquire knowledge and skills to care for women in the climacteric and gynecological situation.
SKILLS
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the signs, symptoms and diagnostic criteria that define deviations from normal pregnancy, delivery, puerperium and climacteric and gynecological conditions.
• Know how to apply knowledge and ability to understand and solve problems in maternal-fetal care at risk and gynecological disease.
• Demonstrate the ability to integrate knowledge into pharmacological intervention measures to be applied during pregnancy, childbirth, puerperium, climacteric and gynecological disease.
• Be able to communicate knowledge and reasoning and make judgments in more complex situations;
• Have developed the skills that allow you to act autonomously in situations throughout the life cycle

• Prenatal care at risk.
• Infections in pregnancy
o Tracking
o the diagnosis
o the treatment
• Abortion
• Cervical isthmus incompetence:
o the Cerclage
• Fetal death
• Interruption of pregnancy
o the Volunteer
o Therapeutics
• Premature Rupture of Membranes
• Pulmonary maturity
• Preterm birth
• Restriction of intrauterine growth
• Bleeding
• Multiple pregnancy
• Blood incompatibilities
• Hypertensive diseases
• Thromboembolic pathology
• Heart disease
• Nephropathies
• Diabetes
• Medical and surgical diseases
• Autoimmune diseases
• Pre and intrapartum fetal evaluation
• Elective discontinuation of labor / labor induction and associated pharmacology
• Distal delivery, pelvic delivery, surgical delivery
• Pharmacological and non-pharmacological measures in pain relief
• Postpartum pathology:
o Physiological complications

Teaching Methods

The lecture includes a classical class, case-situation studies and Seminars. Critical reasoning and consequent personal and professional development are proposed. The individual and group tutorial orientation is applied for further development in the acquisition of knowledge and skills.
Continuous evaluation through two frequencies, resulting in the final grade of the average of the two classifications.
The normal and recourse examinations are carried out in accordance with the UÉ regulations.