Work Pathology and Toxicology

Recommended Prerequisites

Doctors.

Teaching Methods

The lectures are grounded in teaching techniques aimed at a teaching / participatory learning process:
• Formulating goals;
• Using handouts;
• Structuring the lesson from the analysis of a problem;
• Placing issues which promote reasoning;
• Discussing after lectures;
• Complementing lectures with a brief final summary.

The choice of the lecture process teachers will use is conditioned by the theme of the lesson. An active / interactive methodology is used whenever possible.

Learning Outcomes

• Understand the importance of Pain in Occupational Medicine.
• Distinguish between Acute and Chronic Pain Pathophysiology.
• Identify the importance of prevention of sensitization to pain.
• Know the extreme temperatures to which the working man may be subject and the disease that may arise.
• Identify the adverse effects of sun exposure at work.
• Know what electromagnetic radiation is. Distinguish between different types of radiation and differences.
• Understand the biological effects of radiation.
• Learn about the maximum allowable radiation limits.
• Understand the epidemiology, involved structures, injury mechanisms, pathophysiology, types of lesions, clinical, imaging, therapy and complications/sequelae of traumatic brain injury.
• Learn about the most allergenic substances in Occupational Medicine - Organic and inorganic dust, feathers, fungi, latex, formaldehyde, silicates.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Pain and Work:
Assessing the importance of pain in Occupational Medicine.
Pathophysiology of Acute and Chronic Pain, and the importance of prevention of sensitization to pain.

Extreme temperatures and disease

Radiation and Occupational Medicine:
Adverse effects of sun exposure at work.
Immediate effects - photosensitivity; Late effects - skin cancer.
Notion of electromagnetic radiation. Types and differences.
Biological effects of radiation.
Individual dosimetry in a professional context.
Maximum permissible radiation limits.

Mechanical agents:
Traumatic brain injury: epidemiology, involved structures, injury mechanisms, pathophysiology, types of lesions, clinical, imaging, therapy and complications / sequelae.

Allergens and Occupational Medicine:
Organic and inorganic dusts.
Feathers, fungi, latex, formaldehyde, silicates.
Hypersensitivity mechanisms and disease.

 

Introduction to Toxicology/Forensic Toxicology:

Toxicology/Forensic Toxicology: historical development, basic concepts, scope and objectives.

The Toxicological Expertise: in vivo and in the corpse objectives.

The importance of clinical, circumstantial and thanatological information when conducting toxics research.

 

Metals Intoxication:

Arsenic, Lead, Mercury, Aluminum, Thallium, and Lithium. Toxicology Aspects. Expression and interpretation of analytical results.

 

Volatile composites poisoning vs occupational toxicology:

Carbon monoxide, hydrocyanic acid and derivatives. Casuistry and etiology. Expression and interpretation of analytical results.

 

Ethanol:

Medico-legal expertise in vivo - roadside supervision under the influence of ethanol and psychotropic substances: illegal substances and drugs.
Accidents and labor accidents.

 

Pesticides Intoxication:

      Organochloride pesticides, organophosphates, carbamates. Poisoning by Paraquat and Glyphosate. Casuistry and etiology. Aspects of Clinical Toxicology. Expression and interpretation of analytical results.

Assessment Methods

Final
Exam: 100.0%

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