MEDICAL TOXICOLOGY
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2020/2021
- Teacher
- MICHELE SIMONATO
- Credits
- 1
- Didactic period
- Secondo Semestre
- SSD
- BIO/14
Training objectives
- To learn how to diagnose and treat the most frequent non-professional acute and chronic intoxications.
Prerequisites
- Knowledge of general pharmacology
Course programme
- General Toxicology
Mechanisms of actions of the toxins. Types of toxicity: acute and chronic dose-dependent toxicity, allergies, idiosyncratic reactions, chemical cancerogenesis, teratogenesis. Variations in toxicity. Antidotes.
Medical Toxicology
Acute intoxications: the most frequent intoxications produced by drugs, mushrooms, animal poisons.
Eco-toxicology. Non-professional chronic intoxications.Drug abuse: alcohol, heroin, cocaine, LSD, ecstasy, amphetamines, cannabis. Didactic methods
- Lectures
Learning assessment procedures
- The exam will consist in a multiple choice test with 20 questions spanning the teaching program. The exam will be passed with at least 15 correct answers, and may be integrated by an oral part aimed at better investigating the student’s knowledge of the topics in which he/she made mistakes in the written part.
Reference texts
- WP Pratt, P Taylor, Farmacologia. Meccanismi d'azione dei farmaci, Zanichelli
M Bozza Marrubini et al., Intossicazioni acute, OEMF
Kuhn et al., Strafatti. Nient'altro che fatti sulle droghe più usate ed abusate, Springer
