Emergency Care I (AURK_021)
About Study Course
Objective
To teach students to act in urgent, life-threatening situations before the arrival of a doctor.
Perform patient’s primary and secondary survey in pre-hospital stage; perform basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation; perform defibrillation using an automatic defibrillator as indicated; be able to stop dangerous bleeding; immobilize the limb in case of skeletal trauma; provide assistance in case of choking, shock, thermal trauma, hyperthermia, hypothermia, frostbites and acute poisoning.
Prerequisites
Knowledge in biology at secondary school level.
Learning outcomes
On successful course completion students will be able to tell and describe sequence of steps in surveying the patient in pre-hospital stage, how to stop dangerous bleeding; immobilize the limb in case of skeletal trauma; how to provide assistance in case of shock, thermal trauma, hyperthermia, hypothermia and acute poisoning.
Students will be able to perform emergency care, including basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation algorithm, recognize symptoms of clinical and biological death, perform first aid in case of foreign body, perform ventilation with manual ventilator and oxygen inhalations via facial mask, diagnose inner and outer bleeding and perform its suspension, as well as demonstrate ability to work in a team.
Provide emergency care, primary and secondary survey of the patient in pre-hospital stage, situation analysis providing basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation and other first-aid guidelines, assess the environmental impact of physical factors on the human body and health.
