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Course code: VVSS00079o10Semester: 2010/2011 summer
Name: Orthopaedics
Major: Veterinary Medicine
Study Type: one cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 10
ECTS points: 3
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 30 / 0
Lecturer: prof. dr hab. Kornel Ratajczak
Language of instruction: Polish
Learning outcomes: Students get a theoretical knowledge and practical skills of orthopaedic examination of small and large animals, therapeutic management of motoric organ diseases. They train the practical skills according to the basic orthopaedic procedures in horses, cattle, dogs and cats.
Competences: Student are able to use in practice the main orthopaedic procedures in shoeing and trimming of horn in horses and cattle. They are able to perform surgical treatment of a septic pododermatitis. They can use surgical procedures of osteosynthesis in treatment of bone fractures using wire, intramedullary nails, screws and plates.
Prerequisites: Normal and topographic anatomy, physiology, patophysiology
Course content: Practical skills of orthopaedic examination and treatment. Demonstration and training of orthopaedic repair surgeries.
Recommended literature: Plater D. 2002. Small Animal Surgery. Sandauers; Stashak T. S. 2002. Lameness in Horses.
Assessment methods: Acquiring credits, practical and oral exam after semester10- Minimum required knowledge for passing: 90%
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