2024

Surgical Semiology

Name: Surgical Semiology
Code: MVT14020I
3 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours
Scientific Area: Veterinary Medicine

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Presentation

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Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

It focuses on promoting active learning in companion animals, equines, farm and exotic animals, in the areas of:
- semiological diagnostic techniques and methods applied to surgery;
- rules to be followed for the preparation and performance of surgical acts;
- pre, intra and postoperative care applied to the surgical patient;
- surgical material and basic surgical techniques.

The student must acquire the following skills:
- perform a continuous and non-continuous suture pattern;
- make any dressing or bandage;
- put on the surgical gown and put on sterile gloves correctly;
- identify the general and special surgical material;
- apply orthopedic screws with neutral or interfragmentary compression function;
- carry out the containment of an animal;
- propose an appropriate fluid therapy approach to the surgical patient.

Contents

General notions of surgery.
Surgical installations and material sterilization.
Asepsis and preparation of the surgical team.
Suture and dressing techniques.
Tissue manipulation, surgical inflammation, and healing.
Hemorrhage and hemostasis.
Burns and other thermal injuries.
Surgical inflammation and healing.
Classification and approach to wounds.
The shock syndrome.
Approach to the surgical patient.
Transfusion medicine and fluid therapy.
Principles of osteosynthesis.
Principles of minimally invasive surgery, microsurgery and surgery for the eyeball and attachments.
Reconstructive cutaneous surgery techniques.
Basic surgical techniques for pets, horses, farm and exotic animals.

Teaching Methods

The flipped pedagogy will be, whenever possible, the approach used. Students will be provided with various didactic support before or during class, and practical application issues will be discussed. Clinical problems focused on the competencies to be acquired by the student will be made available, before which the students must propose integrated and duly substantiated solutions.
Attendance to a minimum of 75% of theoretical-practical classes is mandatory.
The continuous evaluation included three moments (MP1, MP2 and MP3), and the final score is provided by the average grade obtained in each one of these moments.

The evaluation by final exam consists of a written test covering all the topics of this course.