FVP:UOSP011 First Aid and Disaster Medicin - Course Information
UOSP011 First Aid and Disaster Medicine
Faculty of Public Policies in OpavaWinter 2016
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Michaela Skořupová (seminar tutor)
- Guaranteed by
- PhDr. Jana Haluzíková, 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
- General Nursing Studies (programme FVP, B5341-OSET)
- Course objectives
- The course is designed as theoretical-practical. It teaches knowledge and skills for giving pre-medical first aid. The students acquire basic knowledge of first aid principles for various health-threatening conditions. The course includes knowledge of disaster medicine, urgent care and crisis management. The course describes most common causes and symptoms of injuries (e.g. head injury, chest injury, limb injury, burns and other). The main focus is on basic and extended cardiopulmonary resuscitation of children and adults. After finishing the course, the student will be well informed about recommended guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and cardiac resuscitation issued by European committee for resuscitation.
- Syllabus
- 1. Significance and giving first aid, determining priorities.
2. Disaster medicine, integrated emergency system, team cooperation.
3. Pre-medical first aid - stab wounds, gunshot wounds, slash wounds.
4. Injury by animals, snake bites. Basics of dressing wounds technique.
5. Bleeding - internal, external, arterial, venous, mixed, shock conditions.
6. First aid for suffocating, drowning. Injury by heat, cold, electric current, chemical substances.
7. Seizures, fractures.
8. Serious injuries - head and central nervous system, spine and spinal cord, chest, abdomen, large bones and joints and pressure injuries.
9. Serious acute conditions of children - acute breathing deficiency, febrile spasms.
10. Principles of urgent resuscitation.
11. Monitoring of injured person's condition. Positioning and transport of the injured.
12. Precipitous childbirth, first aid in states of emergency.
- 1. Significance and giving first aid, determining priorities.
- Literature
- 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: Cvičení 15 HOD/SEM. - Teacher's information
- Attendance in a minimum of 80 per cent of practical sessions.
Credit test, a minimum of 80 per cent of correct answers are required.
Exam: practical exam of first aid and urgent resuscitation.
- Enrolment Statistics (Winter 2016, recent)
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