Course: First Aid, Resuscitation

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Course title First Aid, Resuscitation
Course code KSZD/PPP5
Organizational form of instruction Seminary
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction unspecified
Work placements unspecified
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Libešová Lucie, Mgr.
Course content
Seminar Topics: 1. week: Integrated rescue system, crisis management, medicine of catastrophes, legislation. 2. week: Organisation of pre-hospitalization and non-suspensive care. General rules and procedures of providing first aid, algorithm of non-suspensive resuscitation of an adult and a child. CPR of a new-born child and an immature new-born. 3. week: Head injuries. Unconsciousness. 4. week: The injuries of a spine, joints and bones. 5. week: The injuries of a chest and an abdomen. Bleeding. Shock. 6. week: The effects of warmth and cold on a human organism. Acid burning. The injuries caused by electric current. 7. week: First aid during sudden internal states. 8. week: Bandaging technique, treatment of wounds, stopping of bleeding. 9. week: Immobilization techniques. Positions of an injured person. Transporting. 10. week: Crass syndrome. Blast syndrome. Poisonings. 11. week: Drowning. Suffocation. Anaphylactic shock. The injuries caused by an animal, insect.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Learning outcomes
The subject is theoretically-practical and it is the part of the group of subjects, which are based on clinical training. Students will get the knowledge, skills and rules for providing lac and premedical first aid for acute and health threatening states, which may occur because of an accident or sudden complication during the illness. Students are introduced with the clinical states, which are threatening for human life, including specific procedures, which lead to life saving. One part of the subject covers the issues of legal and organisational problems emerging while providing the first aid, about the organisation of medicine dealing with catastrophes, immediate care and crisis management.
Subject Knowledge: Student is able to describe the rules of providing first aid and non-suspensive prehospitalization care describe cooperation and the task of individual units of the integrated rescue system name and describe individual life-threatening states and sudden accidents define the level and extent of damage in the organism caused by the effects of warmth, cold and electric current name and define quantitative and qualitative changes of consciousness, breathing and blood circulation considering the cause Professional Skills: Student is able to identify symptoms, which are signalizing serious health disorder perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation according to the latest recommended procedures apply bandaging techniques to treat wounds and stop bleeding apply immobilization techniques for joint and bone injuries put the injured person into stabilized position and prepare him for transporting, identify symptoms of upcoming shock and then perform anti-shock precautions
Prerequisites
Conditional subject was not determined

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
The requirement for credit obtaining is 80% seminar attendance and 80% success rate in the written tests. The test will consist of 5 example situations and the task for the student will be to come up with the solution. The subject is finished with an exam, which will check theoretical knowledge of the student and his or her practical skills in providing first aid. The exam will include practical demonstration of a selected task and its theoretical explanation.
Recommended literature
  • Doporučené postupy základní / rozšířené neodkladné resuscitace.
  • BERÁNKOVÁ, M., FLEKOVÁ, A., HOLTZHAUZEROVÁ, B. První pomoc. 1. vyd. Praha: Informatorium. 2002. 194 s.. ISBN 80-86073-99-8.
  • BYDŽOVSKÝ, Jan. Předlékařská první pomoc. 1. vyd. Praha: Grada, 2011. 117 s. ISBN 978-80-247-2334-1..
  • CAMEK, R., HRUSKA, L. - STASA, M.-SRAMEK, P. Základy první pomoci pro posluchače FTVS UK. 1. vyd. Praha: Frances. 1993.
  • Kelnarová, J. et al. První pomoc I: pro studenty zdravotnických oborů. 2. přeprac. ad opl. vyd. Praha: Grada, 2012. 100 s. ISBN 978-80-247-4199-4.. Praha, 2012.
  • KELNAROVÁ, J., SEDLÁČKOVÁ, J., TOUFAROVÁ, J., CIKOVA, Z., KELNAROVÁ, E. První pomoc II. Praha. Grada. 2007. 181s.. ISBN 978-80-247-2183-5.
  • KELNAROVÁ, J., TOUFAROVÁ, J. SEDLÁČKOVA, J., CIKOVA, Z. První pomoc I. Praha: Grada. 2007. 107s.. ISBN 978-80-247-2182-8.
  • KLEMENTA, B. aj. Resuscitace ve světle nových guidelines. Olomouc: Solen, 2011. 61 s. ISBN 978-80-87327-79-1.. Olomouc: Solen,, 2011. ISBN 978-80-87327-79-1.
  • LEJSEK, J., RŮŽIČKA, P., BUREŠ, J. První pomoc. Praha: Karolinum, 2010. ISBN 978-80-246-1845-6.


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