Surgical Propedeutics

Data

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Topic

The subject deals with the principles of surgery, basic oncologic surgery, baselines of transplantation, parenteral nutrition, transplantation surgery, minimally invasive surgery, endocrine surgery, and selected special chapters of the previous topics.

Lectures

• 1. General surgical oncology - Horváth Örs Péter
• 2. Nutritional therapy - Vereczkei András Gábor
• 3. One day surgery - Ember Ágoston
• 4. Laparoscopic surgery - Vereczkei András Gábor
• 5. Thermic injuries - Zapf István Tamás
• 6. Principles of plastic surgery - Kovács Gyula
• 7. Breast surgery - Pavlovics Gábor
• 8. Hernia repair surgery - Baracs József
• 9. Appendicitis, ileus, peptic ulcer - Papp András
• 10. Principles of organ and tissue transplantation - Varga Ádám
• 11. Organ transplantation (kidney, pancreas) - Szakály Péter
• 12. Surgery of the thyroids - Vereczkei András Gábor
• 13. Surgery of the adrenals - Vereczkei András Gábor
• 14. Parathyroid and spleen surgery - Vereczkei András Gábor

Practices

• 1. Demonstration of routine interventions during surgical treatment (iv and ia line, nasogastric tube, urinary catheter, replacement of fluid and electrolytes).
• 2. Demonstration of routine interventions during surgical treatment (iv and ia line, nasogastric tube, urinary catheter, replacement of fluid and electrolytes).
• 3. Surgical approaches and their demonstration.
• 4. Surgical approaches and their demonstration.
• 5. Postoperative woundcare. Thermic injury
• 6. Postoperative woundcare.
• 7. Physical examination of the surgical patient. Discussion of diagnostic procedures and findings.
• 8. Hernia surgery
• 9. The pain as leading complaint, its forms and significance. Local anaesthesia. Nausea and vomitus, their casual significance
• 10. The pain as leading complaint, its forms and significance. Local anaesthesia. Nausea and vomitus, their casual significance
• 11. Primary, secondary and delayed woundcare
• 12. Investigation of organtransplant patients
• 13. Endocrine surgery. Clinical aspects
• 14. One day surgery

Seminars

Reading material

Obligatory literature

S. Schwartz et al.: Principles of Surgery, McGrow Hill Company, NY,

Literature developed by the Department

Notes

Recommended literature

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

Being present at the practices not exceeding the allowed absences.

Mid-term exams

The first exam is accomplished in a written form which is obligatory for all, for those who miss this, the next exam is a B type. Also corrective B exams are oral.

Making up for missed classes

It is possible to make up a missed practice at any other group. This should be registered by the lecturer, including the original group number. Some of the practices are held at the skill lab, therefore the year representative should inquire about the exact dates on the first week.

Exam topics/questions

1 Palliative interventions. Irresectability and inoperability

2. Treatment options of tumor patients, quality of resection (R0, R1, R2)

3. Types of precancerosis. Spreading of tumors, tumor symptoms

4. Classification of tumors. Surgery of metastatic lesions

5. Types and indication of nutrition (parenteral, enteral)

6. Hyperparathyriodism

7. Thyroid tumors, symptoms, treatment options

8. Surgical treatment of hyperthyreosis

9. Nodular diseases of the thyroid gland

10. Postoperative complications after thyroid surgery

11. Tumors of the suprarenal gland. Surgical treatment

12. Gastroduodenal ulcers and their surgical treatment

13. Inguinal hernia

14. Abdominal hernia. Surgical treatment

15. Appendicitis

16. Symptoms and diagnosis of ileus.

17. Acute gastrointestinal bleedings

18. Diagnosis of breast cancer

19. Operable breast tumors (surgical and adjuvant treatment)

20. Benign breast tumors, inflammations of the breast

21. Acute abdomen

22. Indications and contraindications of laparoscopic surgery

23. Requirements of one day surgery

24. Criteria of brain death. Medical and legal aspects

25. Types of organ donation

26. Immunosuppressive therapy after organtransplantation

27. Donor management. Preparation of cadaver kidneys

28. Kidney transplantation. Early and late complications

29. Indications of liver and pancreas transplantation

30. Thermic injury Diagnosis, Symptoms, and Treatment

Examiners

• Baracs József
• Ember Ágoston
• Ferencz Sándor
• Kalmár Nagy Károly
• Kelemen Dezső Tamás
• Kondor Ariella Edina
• Kovács Gyula
• Papp András
• Papp Róbert
• Pavlovics Gábor
• Szakály Péter
• Szántó Zalán János
• Vereczkei András Gábor
• Zapf István Tamás

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

• Baracs József
• Ember Ágoston
• Ferencz Sándor
• Jakab Ferenc
• Kalmár Nagy Károly
• Kelemen Dezső Tamás
• Kondor Ariella Edina
• Kovács Gyula
• Papp András
• Papp Róbert
• Pavlovics Gábor
• Szakály Péter
• Szántó Zalán János
• Vereczkei András Gábor
• Zapf István Tamás