UOSK061 Emergency and Critical Care

Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Winter 2015
Extent and Intensity
0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
MUDr. Ivana Volfová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
PhDr. Jana Haluzíková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
MUDr. Ivana Volfová, Ph.D.
Institute of Paramedical Health Studies – Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course combines theoretical and practical lessons. It integrates into the complex of clinical nursing courses. It familiarizes the student with potentially life-threatening clinical conditions commonly encountered across various domains of health care. The course also provides an overview of life support procedures and pertinent nursing care (including prevention of complications) in emergency departments, resuscitation departments and intensive care units.
Syllabus
  • 1. Emergency department and traumatology in hospital settings. Objectives of care in emergency departments. Immediate resuscitation and life support for the critically ill and injured.
    2. Emergencies requiring immediate care: loss of consciousness, shock, bleeding, acute pain, intoxication and poisoning, burns, trauma, multiple trauma, evisceration of internal organs etc. Dying and death in emergency department.
    3. Prioritizing care in emergencies, initial assessment of patient status, interventions. Emergency dialysis. Transplantation. Continuous elimination methods.
    4. Diagnostic and therapeutic methods in the critically ill. Monitoring patients in acute care (pressure: intracranial, arterial, central venous, right heart catheterization, pulse oximetry, capnometry, analysis of blood gases, ECG etc.)
    5. NC (nursing care) in critical neurological conditions: injuries of the head and spinal cord, aneurysm, status epilepticus, intracerebral hemorrhage, cerebral vascular accident.
    6. NC in critical states in internal medicine: pulmonary, cardiac, gastrointestinal, endocrine, renal.
    7. NC in multiple organ dysfunction syndrome - critical states: burns, intravascular coagulation, shock.
    8. NC in diabetic coma.
    9. NC in patients with upper gastrointestinal tract bleeding.
    10. NC in patients with cerebral hemorrhage. NC in patients with acute electrolyte imbalance.
    11. NC in patients with acute disseminated intravascular coagulation.
    12. NC in emergency dialysis.
    13. NC in patients with acute chest and abdomen trauma.
    14. NC in patients with acute trauma of upper and lower extremities.
    15. NC in patients with multiple injuries.
Literature
    recommended literature
  • HANDL, P. Monitorování pacientů v anesteziologii,resuscitaci a intenzivní péči - vybrané kapitoly. IDV ZP Brno, 1999. info
  • DRÁBKOVÁ, J. Polytrauma v intenzivní medicíně. Praha: Grada Publishing, 2002. info
  • KRUPOVÁ, L. Ošetřovatelská péče u akutních stavů. Distanční studijní opora a e-learningový kurz. Opava: Slezská univerzita v Opavě, 2012. URL info
  • KAPOUNOVÁ,G. Ošetřovatelství v intenzivní péči. Praha:Grada Publishing, 2007. ISBN 978-80-247-1830-9. info
  • DOSTÁL, P. A KOL. Základy umělé plicní ventilace. Praha:Maxdorf, 2005. ISBN 80-7345-059-. info
  • CHROBOK, V., ASTL, J., KOMÍNEK, P. A KOL. Tracheostomie a koniotomie techniky, komplikace a ošetřovatelská péče. Praha: Maxdorf, 2004. ISBN 80-7345-031-3. info
  • ADAMS,B.,HAROLD, C.,E. Sestra a akutní stavy od A do Z. Praha: Grada Publishing, 1999. ISBN 80-7169-893-8. info
  • BRODANOVÁ, A., ANDĚL, A. Infúzní terapie, parenterální a enterální výživa. Praha: Grada Publishing, 1994. ISBN 80-85623-60-9. info
  • BOHUŠ, O. A KOL. Anesteziológia a intenzívna starostlivosť I. Martin: Osveta, 1992. ISBN 80-217-0436-5. info
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: Přednáška 6 HOD/SEM, Cvičení 6 HOD/SEM.
Teacher's information
Attendance in a minimum of 80 per cent of seminars is required for completion. Students who could not attend a number of lessons for serious reasons will be assigned extra tasks.
Managed independent learning with continuous assessment. Credits will be afforded after fulfilling all criteria.
Examination: written test, a minimum of 80 per cent correct answers.
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2009, Winter 2010, Winter 2011, Winter 2012, Winter 2013, Winter 2014, Winter 2016, Winter 2017, Winter 2018.
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