UPPVJP029 First Aid to Seniors

Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Summer 2022
Extent and Intensity
13/13/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Jana Haluzíková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Jana Haluzíková, Ph.D.
Institute of Pedagogical and Psychological Sciences – Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Contact Person: PhDr. Edita Ondřejová, Ph.D.
Timetable
Thu 13:05–13:50 C201
  • Timetable of Seminar Groups:
UPPVJP029/A: Thu 13:55–14:40 C201, J. Haluzíková
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 disaster medicine, emergency services and crisis management.
The course describes common causes and symptoms of selected conditions (e.g. injuries to the head, chest, extremities; burns, etc.). The main emphasis is placed on basic and extended cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Having completed the course, the students will gain orientation in recommended procedures (guidelines) for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) as cardial resuscitation issued by the European Resuscitation Council.
Learning outcomes
Professional knowledge: Students can describe the symptoms and causes of acute injuries. They can define best practices for CPR and describe the significance of crisis management and disaster medicine.

Professional skills: Students are able to provide CPR and first aid for individual injuries effectively.

General qualification: Students are able to evaluate injuries and organize the wounded in a sequence, then treat the wounded.

Competences: Having completed the course, the students will orient themselves in the field of first aid, CPR, etc.
Syllabus
  • 1. Significance and provision of first aid, prioritizing
  • 2. Disaster medicine, integrated emergency services, teamwork
  • 3. Premed first aid - stab and slash wounds, gunshot
  • 4. Injuries by animals, snakebites. Introduction to bandaging techniques.
  • 5. Bleeding– internal, external, arterial, venous, mixed, states of shock
  • 6. First aid for choking, drowning. Damage by heat, cold, electric current, chemicals.
  • 7. Spasmodic states, fractures
  • 8. Serious injuries - head and central nervous system, spine and spinal cord, neck, chest, abdomen, large bones, joints and pressure injuries.
  • 9. Serious conditions in the elderly: dyspnea, acute myocardial infarction, cramps
  • 10. Serious conditions in the elderly: stroke, coma, and intoxication
  • 11. Basics of cardiopulmonary resuscitation
  • 12. Monitoring health condition of the patient.
  • 13. Positioning and transport of afflicted individuals.
Literature
    required literature
  • BYDŽOVSKÝ, J. Předlékařská první pomoc. Praha: Grada, 2011. ISBN 978-80-247-2334-1. info
  • DRÁBKOVÁ, J. Akutní stavy v první linii. Praha: Grada, 1997. ISBN 80-7169-238-7. info
  • HALUZÍKOVÁ, J. Zdraví a sociální determinanty zdraví – teoretické koncepce. In: J. VACKOVÁ, ed. Sociální determinanty a jejich vliv na zdraví imigrantů žijících v České republice. Nakladatel: České Budějovice, 2015, s. 16–25. ISBN 978-80-7422-470-6.
  • HALUZÍKOVÁ, J. Základy první pomoci[online]. Opava: Slezská univerzita v Opavě, Fakulta veřejných politik v Opavě, 2019. Dostupné z: https://elearning.slu.cz/course/index.php?categoryid=45
  • KURUCOVÁ, A. První pomoc I, II. Praha: Grada, 2008. ISBN 978-80-247-2168-2. info
  • POKORNÝ, J. Lékařská první pomoc. Praha: Galén, 2010. ISBN 978-80-726-2322-8. info
    recommended literature
  • KELNAROVÁ, J., SEDLÁČKOVÁ, J. První pomoc I, II. Praha: Grada, 2007. ISBN 978-80-247-2182-8. info
  • ŠANTA, M. a kol. Prvá pomoc. Osveta: Martin, 2006. ISBN 80-8063-207-3. info
  • ŠEBLOVÁ, J., KNOR, J., et al. Urgentní medicína v klinické praxi lékaře. Praha: Grada Publishing, 2013. ISBN 978-80-247-4434-6. info
Assessment methods (in Czech)
zápočet, zkouška
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2019, Accreditation summer, Summer 2021, Summer 2023, Summer 2024, Summer 2025.
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