UONP001 First Aid

Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Winter 2024
Extent and Intensity
0/20/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Petra Šimánková (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Petra Šimánková
Institute of Paramedical Health Studies – Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Contact Person: Mgr. Veronika Slováček Hagenová
Prerequisites (in Czech)
FAKULTA(FVP) && TYP_STUDIA(B) && FORMA(P)
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course is conceived as a theoretical-practical one. It supplies knowledge and skills necessary to provide first aid. Students will acquire knowledge of the principles of first aid in a variety of health-damaging conditions. The course includes findings from the field of integrated emergency services and crisis management.
The course describes common causes and symptoms of selected traumatic and atraumatic health-damaging conditions (e.g. injuries to the head, chest, extremities; burns, spasm, seizure disorders, etc.).
Th main emphasis is placed on basic and extended cardiopulmonary resuscitation of children and adults. Having completed the course, the students will gain orientation in recommended procedures (guidelines) for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) as issued by the European Resuscitation Council.
Learning outcomes
Professional Knowledge Students can describe the causes and symptoms of traumatic and atraumatic health-damaging conditions and are able to explain the principles of first aid. They can define best practices for CPR and describe the significance of integrated emergency services and crisis management.
Professional Skills: Students can provide first aid and CPR with selected traumatic and atraumatic health-damaging conditions effectively.
General Qualification: In selected traumatic and atraumatic health-damaging conditions, students are able to assess and determine the order of providing first aid to the injured / afflicted individuals and provide them first aid accordingly.
Competences: Having completed the course, the students will orient themselves in the field of first aid and CPR. Students will deepen and perfect the knowledge and skills through further studies and clinical practice.
Syllabus
  • 1. Significance and provision of first aid, assessment of priorities, structuring of first aid, uniform procedure for the provision of first aid.
  • 2. Integrated emergency services, disaster medicine, teamwork.
  • 3. Emergency incidents with mass health damage.
  • 4. Introduction to bandaging techniques.
  • 5. Monitoring health condition of the patient. Positioning and transport of afflicted individuals.
  • 6. Loss of consciousness.
  • 7. Urgent cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
  • 8. First aid for choking, drowning.
  • 9. Convulsions and seizure conditions.
  • 10. Bleeding - internal, external, arterial, venous, mixed, states of shock.
  • 11. Injuries by cutting, stabbing, slashing, laceration, gunshot. Foreign bodies in wounds and bodily orifices. Injury by animals.
  • 12. Serious injuries - head and central nervous system, spine and spinal cord, neck, chest, abdomen.
  • 13. Extremity injuries, fractures of large bones and joints, pelvic injuries. Pressure injuries.
  • 14. Damage by heat, cold, electric current, chemicals.
  • 15. Intoxication.
  • 16. Selected acute conditions in internal medicine.
  • 17. Emergency childbirth.
  • 18. Severe acute conditions in children - acute respiratory distress, febrile convulsions.
Literature
    required literature
  • Truhlář A, Černá Pařízková R, Dizon JML, Djakow J, Drábková J, Franěk O, et al. Doporučené postupy pro resuscitaci ERC 2021: Souhrn doporučení. Anest Intenz Med. 2021; 32(Suppl. A): 72 s.
  • HALUZÍKOVÁ, Jana. Základy první pomoci a přednemocniční péče. Praha: GRADA Publishing, 2023. ISBN 978-80-271-1739-0.
    recommended literature
  • PETRŽELA, M. D. První pomoc pro každého. Praha: Grada, 2016. ISBN 978-80-247-5556-4.
  • HALUZÍKOVÁ, Jana. Odborná první pomoc. 1. vyd. Slezská univerzita, 2021. 172 s.
  • MIXA, V., HEINIGE, P., VOBRUBA, V. (eds.) et al. Dětská přednemocniční a urgentní péče. Praha: Mladá fronta a. s., 2017. ISBN 978-80-204-4643-5. info
Teaching methods
Contact teaching (lecture, presentation, critical thinking methods, role-playing, instruction, demonstration, discussion, self-study) is guided by a system of consultations on selected topics. The combined part of the study is 0/4/0. 4 HOD/SEM. 1 cr. Completion. Contact instruction (lecture, presentation, critical thinking methods, role-playing, instruction, demonstration, discussion, self-study) is conducted by a system of consultation on selected topics. The combined part of the study is carried out in an e-learning course on the e-portal http://elearning.fvp.slu.cz/. For teaching, the students are provided with study aids including correspondence assignments. The student will be able to continuously consult individually studied topics of the course through individual or group consultations or e-mail. Completion of 80% attendance in class, demonstration of activity, theoretical and practical knowledge continuously during the course of the course (a student who, for serious reasons, is unable to attend the compulsory class will be assigned an alternative way of fulfilling the study requirements by the instructor). Credit: oral and practical verification of professional knowledge and skills.
Assessment methods
Fulfillment of 80% attendance (a student who for serious reasons could not attend the compulsory classes, the teacher will determine an alternative way of fulfilling the study obligations) CREDIT: oral examination
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Teacher's information
Mgr. Petra Šimánková. Contact teaching is conducted by a system of consultations on selected topics. The combined part of the study is implemented in the environment of e-learning course on the e-portal http://elearning.fvp.slu.cz/. The student will be able to continuously consult individually studied topics of the course through individual or group consultations or e-mail.
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2019, Accreditation winter, Winter 2020, Winter 2021, Winter 2022, Winter 2023.
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