2025
Surgical Semiology
Name: Surgical Semiology
Code: MVT15239I
3 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours
Scientific Area:
Veterinary Medicine
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
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.
- 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.
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. Surgical and 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.
Theoretical exposition of subjects is in accordance with the UC syllabus and supported by audiovisual media. Attendance at theoretical classes is optional. In practical classes, surgical techniques are demonstrated and trained, with the active participation of students.
Students will be provided with various didactic support before or during class, and practical application issues will be discussed. Surgical and 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.
Theoretical exposition of subjects is in accordance with the UC syllabus and supported by audiovisual media. Attendance at theoretical classes is optional. In practical classes, surgical techniques are demonstrated and trained, with the active participation of students.
Assessment
The assessment focuses on theoretical-practical and theoretical knowledge.
1. Theoretical-practical knowledge:
Final oral practical exam.
2. Theoretical knowledge:
Final written theoretical exam.
The final grade of the CU will be obtained through a weighted average between the final theoretical exam (written) - 65% and the final pratical oral exam - 35%, with a minimum of 9.5 values in each component.
1. Theoretical-practical knowledge:
Final oral practical exam.
2. Theoretical knowledge:
Final written theoretical exam.
The final grade of the CU will be obtained through a weighted average between the final theoretical exam (written) - 65% and the final pratical oral exam - 35%, with a minimum of 9.5 values in each component.
Teaching Staff
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