INTRODUCTION TO PEDIATRIC INFECTIONS

INTRODUCTION TO PEDIATRIC INFECTIONS

INTRODUCTION TO PEDIATRIC INFECTIONS

Lesson Code: MP0207

Professor in charge: Grivea Ioanna, Professor

Other Teachers: Georgios Syrogiannopoulos, Aspasia Michoula

ECTS: 2.00

Type|Type of Course: EL | SCIENTIFIC AREA

Teaching Semester: 13th Semester

Hours per week: 2 hours

Total Time (Teaching Hours + Student Workload) 54 Hours

Prerequisites: NO

Language of Instruction: Greek

Available for Erasmus: NO

Semester Lectures: Coming Soon…

Teaching Method:
  • Lectures
  • Presentations of multimedia files
  • IT and media technologies for the presentation of lecture material, online information and student practice
  • Use software to present lectures and view slides and videos.
  • A study guide that includes presentation files and relevant international bibliography is
  • online available to students through e-class.
  • Information about the course and teachers is available at the Pediatric Clinic Secretariat

Evaluation Method: The examination / assessment of the student takes place at the end of the course with their participation in written multiple choice questions

Objective Objectives/Desired Results: The purpose of the course is the students' first contact with infections in Pediatrics. Infections are the most common cause of hospitalization in Pediatrics and children are the main source of spread of common infections in the community. Specifically, they will analyze:

  • the pharmacokinetics and mechanism of action of antibiotics
  • the symptomatology and clinical course of common pediatric infections
  • the clinical laboratory test that must be performed in order to document a pathogenic microorganism
  • the domestic spread of infections, infections in nurseries, schools and camps
  • how to choose the antibiotic in common pediatric infections
  • consequences of antibiotic abuse

The above will enable students to acquire the necessary knowledge to be able to choose the appropriate antibiotic for common pediatric infections and at the same time to understand the consequences of antibiotic abuse. The final goal is the rational use of antibiotics and the reduction of the spread of resistant strains both in the community and in the Hospital.

General Skills

  • Search, analysis and synthesis of data and information (practical and theoretical)
  • Skill development
  • Decision making
  • Work in an interdisciplinary environment

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Course Description: Basic principles of pediatric infections will be analyzed such as
• Antibiotic drug groups
• Mechanism of action of antibiotics
• Pharmacokinetics, drug resistance
• Adverse effects of antibiotics
• Etiology of common pediatric infections
• Viral and microbial infections by systems and anatomical sites
• Fever of unknown etiology
• Emergencies in pediatric infections
• Laboratory investigation of infections
• Use policy and selection of the appropriate antimicrobial drug
• Source of infection, domestic spread
• Abuse of antibiotics
• Epidemic, pandemic

Recommended reading: BOOKS

  1. "Pediatrics II» Authors: AAP, McInerny KT Publishers: Broken Hill Publishers, Lucky Code: 32998024
  2. "Pocket Guide to Pediatrics", Authors: Prasad Paritosh, Rotonda Publications, Auspicious Code: 68401898

Periodically

  1. Pediatric Infectious Diseases Journal
  2. Pediatrics

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