Course: First Aid

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Course title First Aid
Course code KE/PPE9
Organizational form of instruction Lesson
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 1
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 1
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Libešová Lucie, Mgr.
Course content
Exercise Topics: 1. Integrated rescue system, crisis management, disaster medicine, legislation. 2. Organization of pre-hospital emergency care. General principles and procedures of first aid provision, urgent resuscitation algorithm for adults and children and newborns. 3. Head injury. Unconsciousness. Choking. Anaphylactic shock. 4. Injury of spine, joints and bones. Injury to an animal 5. Injury of chest and abdomen. Bleeding. Rival. 6. Effects of heat and cold on human organism. Corrosion. Electric shock injury. 7. First aid in sudden internal states. 8. Dressing technique, wound care, bleeding. 9. Immobilization techniques. The position of the wounded. Transport. 10. Crass syndrome. Blast syndrome. Poisoning.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Learning outcomes
The course is conceived as a theoretical and practical part of a group of subjects based on clinical practice. Students will acquire knowledge, skills and principles for providing laical and pre-medical first aid in acute and health-threatening conditions resulting from an accident or sudden worsening of the disease. Students are acquainted with clinical conditions that immediately threaten human life, including specific procedures that lead to its rescue. The course also includes knowledge of the legal and organizational issues of providing first aid, the organization of disaster medicine, emergency care and crisis management.
Expertise: The student is able to describe the principles of providing first aid and urgent pre-hospital care, describe the synergy and tasks of individual components of the integrated rescue system, enumerate and define quantitative and qualitative changes of consciousness, breathing and blood circulation depending on the cause, enumerate and describe individual life-threatening conditions and sudden events, define the degree and extent of damage to the body caused by the effect of heat, cold and electric current Professional skills: The student demonstrates the ability to assess the situation and carry out a basic examination of the injured person, check the basic life functions of the injured, recognize symptoms that signal a serious health disorder, recognize the symptoms of various internal injuries, perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation according to the latest recommended procedures, dressing technique for wound treatment and bleeding, immobilization techniques of joint and bone injuries, put the person in the required position and prepare him for transport, recognize the symptoms of the onset of shock and take anti-shock measures. Competences: The student is able to provide first aid for injuries and acute conditions that endanger health or life. He can perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation and know how to use the AED.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Credit: 80% attendance at seminars and 80% success of written test. Credit will take the form of a written test.
Recommended literature
  • BYDŽOVSKÝ, Jan. Předlékařská první pomoc. 1. vyd. Praha: Grada, 2011. 117 s. ISBN 978-80-247-2334-1..
  • 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. et al. První pomoc II: pro studenty zdravotnických oborů. 2. přeprac. a dopl. vyd. Praha: Grada, 2013. 180 s. ISBN 978-80-247-4200-7.. Praha, 2007.
  • 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, Jan a kol. První pomoc. Praha: Karolinum, 2013. 271 s. ISBN 978-80-246-2090-9.. Praha, 2013. ISBN 978-80-246-2090-9.
  • MALÁ, L. a D. PEŘAN. První pomoc pro všechny situace: v souladu s evropskými doporučeními 2015. Praha: Vyšehrad. ISBN 978-80-7429-693-2..
  • PETRŽELA, M. 2016. První pomoc pro každého. 2.vyd. Praha: Grada. ISBN 978-80-247-5556-4..


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Health Studies Study plan (Version): Occupational Therapy (P19) Category: Health service 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter