COURSE CONTENT

Theory:

1. Examination of the Cardiovascular System
2. General Anatomy / Physiology of the Cardiovascular System
3. Arterial Hypertension
4. Chronic Coronary Syndromes
5. Aortic valve stenosis
6. Aortic valve insufficiency
7. Mitral valve diseases (stenosis / insufficiency / prolapse)
8. Acute Heart Failure
9. Congenital Heart Diseases
10. Heart & Pregnancy
11. Pulmonary Embolism
12. Coronary Heart Disease (Pathophysiology – Chronic Coronary Heart Disease – Risk Factors)
13. Pulmonary Hypertension
14. Pericardial diseases
15. Syncope
16. Acute Coronary Syndromes
17. Bradyarrhythmias – Cardiac Pacing
18. Myocarditis
19. Tachyarrhythmias (Supraventricular)
20. Tachyarrhythmias (Ventricular)
21. Atrial fibrillation
22. Chronic Heart Failure
23. Cardiac arrest – Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
24. Endocarditis
25. Myocardiopathies (Hypertrophic – Dilated – Restrictive)
26. Diseases of the aorta

Workshops or tutorials:

1. Differential diagnosis of chest pain
2. Differential diagnosis of Dyspnea – Edema – fatigue
3. Differential diagnosis of Cyanosis
4. Differential diagnosis of Syncope
5. Clinical cases of Acute Coronary Syndromes – Stable Angina
6. Clinical cases of Acute and Chronic Heart Failure
7. Clinical cases of Atrial Fibrillation – Tachyarrhythmias (supraventricular and ventricular)
8. Clinical cases of Myocardiopathies – Myocarditis
9. Clinical cases of Pericardial Diseases
10. Clinical cases of Aortic Diseases
11. Clinical cases of Arterial Hypertension
12. Clinical cases of Pulmonary Embolism – Pulmonary Hypertension
13. Clinical cases of Valvular diseases
14. Clinical cases of Endocarditis
15. Clinical cases of bradyarrhythmias – Cardiac Pacing
16. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation

Clinical exercise:

History taking, physical examination, differential diagnosis of patients hospitalized in the Cardiology Department, Coronary Unit or Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, interpretation of chest X-ray, Electrocardiogram, Treadmill Test, Cardiac Nuclear Scintigraphy, Echocardiogram (trans-thoracic and trans-esophageal) , Cardiac Pacing and Cardiac Catheterization & Intervention