331621 - Coidados Paliativos (OPTATIVAS XERAIS DE 2º CICLO) - Curso 2011/2012
Información
- Créditos ECTS
- Créditos ECTS: 4.50
- Total: 4.5
Outros Datos
- Tipo: Materia Ordinaria RD 1497/1987
- Departamentos: Psiquiatría, Radioloxía e Saúde Pública, Pediatría, Medicina
- Áreas: Psiquiatría , Pediatría, Medicina
- Centro: Facultade de Medicina e Odontoloxía
- Convocatoria: Segundo Cuadrimestre
- Docencia e Matrícula: null
Profesores
Horarios
| Nome | Tipo Grupo | Tipo Docencia | Horario Clase | Horario exames |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grupo P01 | Ordinario | Prácticos | NON | NON |
| Grupo P02 | Ordinario | Prácticos | NON | NON |
| Grupo T01 | Ordinario | Teóricos | NON | NON |
| Grupo T02 | Ordinario | Teóricos | SI | SI |
Programa
Existen programas da materia para os seguintes idiomas:
Course objectives
The aim of this Course is to provide the Medicine students with the knowledge which enables them to tackle the handling of patients with advanced and progressive diseases, with changing and intense symptoms which generate a great emotional impact on the ill person and the assistential staff and with no possibility of curative treatment.
Contents
We have divided the subject into four big sections:
1. A first section where the essential aspects of Palliative Cares are studies: what we understand as Palliative Cares, concept of terminal illness and clinical criteria of terminality, general principles of the control of symptoms, Route of administration of drugs.
2. Symptoms control: with a special attention to the study of pain, types and characteristics, analgesic scale of the Health World Organization, methods for pain measure, coadjuvant drugs, respiratory manifestations, dyspnea, hiccup, cough, secretions, digestive, neuropsychological alterations, urgencies in palliative cares, agony.
3. Psychological and Psychopathological Aspects in Palliative Cares: The experience of pain, multidimensional models of pain, psychological aspects of the experience of pain and psychopathology of pain, study of the psychic repercussions of somatic diseases in childhood and adolescence, mourning and the experience of loss as well as the psychological support to the patient and family in specific situations.
4. Introduction to palliative cares in Paediatrics. Child and pain: specific aspects. Bioethics and palliative cares. Palliative home hospitalization for the child. The child at the end of life.
Basic and complementary bibliography
Gómez Sancho, M & cols. Medicina Paliativa en la cultura latina. Ed Arán, Madrid 1999.
González Barón, M & cols. Tratado de Medicina Paliativa y tratamiento de soporte en el enfermo con cáncer. Ed Panamericana, 1996
Doyle,D et al. Textbook of paliative Medicine. Oxford University press,1993
Astudillo,W & cols, 3th Ed "Cuidados del enfermo en fase terminal y atención a su familia". EUNSA.Navarra, 1998
González Barón,M & Ordóñez Gallego,A. Dolor y cáncer. Hacia una oncología sin dolor. Ed Panamericana,2003
Gómez Batiste, X & cols. Cuidados Paliativos en oncología. Ed JIMS, Barcelona,1996
Vincent T. DeVita Jr & cols. Cáncer. Principios y Práctica de Oncología. Chapter 54 : cuidados Paliativos y Calidad de Vida. Ed Panamericana, 2000.
Harrison & cols. Principios de Medicina Interna. Ed Mc Graw Hill. 16th ed, 2005
Ajuriaguerra,J (2000). Manual de Psiquiatría infantil. Ed Masson, Barcelona,4th edition
Gómez Sancho M (1998). Como dar malas noticias en medicina. Arán Ediciones, Madrid
López-Ibor, JJ, Ortiz Alonso, T & López-Ibor Alcocer,MI (1999). Lecciones de Psicología médica. Edt.Masson, Barcelona
Ortega-Monasterio,L & col (1993). Lecciones de Psicología Médica. Promociones y publicaciones Universitarias, 1st edition, Barcelona
Seva Díaz, A (1994). Psicología Médica. Bases Psicológicas de los Estados de Salud y Enfermedad. INO Reproductores,Zaragoza,1st edition
Marcelli,D y Ajuriaguerra,J (1996). Manual de Psicopatología del Niño. Edit Masson, Barcelona, 3rdetion
Rodríguez Sacristán, J (dir) (2000). Psicopatología infantil básica. Ediciones Pirámide (grupo Anaya), Madrid
Vázquez-Barquero,JL (1998). Psiquiatría en Atención Primaria. Grupo Aula Médica, Madrid
Competence
After having passed the subject, students must be qualified to recognize the different situations of advanced disease in situation of palliative cares, symptomatology, its complexity and the way to treat it. They will handle and will know how to interpret the different scales used for measuring pain and other symptoms (dyspnea…) and to take decisions as well as the global attention of the patient and his/her family as unit to be treated (biopsychosocial).
Teaching methodology
Two hours per week of theoretical teaching will be given along the second term of the academic year aimed at facilitating and guiding the acquisition of the theoretical knowledge through master classes supported with the appropriate audiovisual material.
The teaching will be complemented with theoretical-practical seminars for the complete learning of the subject.
Assessment system
It will consist of a test-type exam, with five optional answers and only one correct one, requiring 65% of all the questions to pass.
Study time and individual work
The subject consists of a total of 4,5 credits, 3 theoretical and 1,5 practical which means 30 contact hours and 15 practical hours, besides the necessary hours for the assessment and the test-type exams.
It is estimated a total workload of 120 hours.
Recommendations for the study of the subject
The guide provided at the beginning of the course is considered useful to follow in a correct way the development of the subject’s contents. Regular attendance to the theoretical and theoretical-practical classes is essential as well as consulting the recommended bibliography for the preparation of the thematic contents.