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PEDIATRICS

WINTER SEMESTER 2023/2024

III Year

NEONATOLOGY

Lecture – 10 hours

1. Introduction into the   paediatrics. General terms related to the child care. Ethical issues in the paediatrics. Diagnostics guidelines and therapeutic standards in the modern paediatrics [1H]
2. History taking and physical examination in pediatrics: principles of  proper  physical examination in pediatric patients [1H]
3. Pediatric symptomatology / general semiotic in pediatrics and significance of chosen clinical signs and symptoms in children [2H]
4. Puberty – physiology and clinical features; major health-related problems in adolescent medicine [1H]
5. Child abuse and neglect (Maltreated child syndrome). Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder-ADHD [1H]
6. Major nutritional problems during growth: Undernutrition, childhood obesity; eating disorders  (anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa) [2H]
7. Vitamin D – metabolism and clinical significance. Disturbances of the calcium and phosphorus homeostasis (rickets, osteoporosis ) [1H]
8. Metabolic disorders. Metabolic screening of newborns [1H]

Seminar – 15 hours 

1. Classification of newborn infants by birth weight and gestational age. Prematurity [3 hours]
2. Medical assessment of the newborn infant. Adaptation to the extra-uterine life. [3 hours]
3. Rules of newborn resuscitation. Preventive health care during neonatal period. [3 hours]
4. Respiratory and circulatory adaptation. Newborn laboratory standards [2 hours]
5. Physiology and pathology of the respiratory system and cardiovascular system. Neonatal screening, inborn errors of the metabolism [2 hours]
6. Head and neck examination including diagnosis of craniofacial pathology in children and young [2 hours]

Exercises – 20 hours

ATTENTION!!!

The sequence of topics may change during the semester according to the schedule for Pediatrics. Due to the wide range of material we recommend earlier preparation.

A test, which covers the subject from basic literature, seminars and  lectures, will be taken before every practical exercises.

Teachers conducting exercises:

Martyna Korzeniewicz MD, – The Regional Children’s Specialized Hospital in Olsztyn, Clinical Department of Pathology and Birth Defects Newborns and Infants

Aneta Szalacha-Szczur MD, - The Regional Children’s Specialized Hospital, the Ward of Pediatrics IV

Łukasz Osiński MD, - The Regional Specialized Hospital in Olsztyn, Żołnierska 18 street, The Ward of the Neonatology and Neonatal Intensive Care 

Subject 1: Symptomatology of newborn and infant diseases. Physical examination of infants.

Martyna Korzeniewicz MD, - The Regional Children’s Specialized Hospital in Olsztyn, Clinical Department of Pathology and Birth Defects Newborns and Infants

Subject 2: Medical history physiological and morphological features of the term babies. Adaptation to extra uterine life. Physiological jaundice, jaundice connected to breast feeding, pathological jaundice.

Łukasz Osiński MD, - The Regional Specialized Hospital in Olsztyn, Żołnierska 18 street, The Ward of the Neonatology and Neonatal Intensive Care

Subject 3: Breastfeeding and formula-feeding. Types of formulas. Diarrhea in children.

Aneta Szalacha-Szczur MD, - The Regional Children’s Specialized Hospital, the Ward of Pediatrics IV

Subject 4: Physical examination of children.

Martyna Korzeniewicz MD, - The Regional Children’s Specialized Hospital in Olsztyn, Clinical Department of Pathology and Birth Defects Newborns and Infants