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About Study Course

ECTS:3
Course supervisor:Aleksejs Višņakovs
Study type:Full time
Course level:Doctor
Target audience:Medicine
Language:Latvian
Study course description Full description, Full time
Branch of science:Anatomy; Clinical medicine

Objective

To ensure possibility to master knowledge on anesthetic methods for the adult patients as well to obtain skills on the ensuring the airway and breathing ways with the purpose to be able to make them individually in emergency situations in the pre-hospital and hospital admission unit’s phase till the patient is delivered in the operation hall.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

1.1. Describe methods of anesthesia, pharmacotherapy of the anesthesia means, operational principles of the anesthesia devices.
2. Expound the specific aspects of pain in the emergency medicine: application of analgesia and sedation for adults; explain the anatomical, physiological, pharmacological mechanism of pain transmission; interpret the evaluation of pain, explain the pharmacology of sedative and pain killing medications; explain the psychological and social aspects of pain in pediatrics, in the care taking of adult and geriatric patients.
3. Explain the ways of ensurance of airways.

Skills

1.The student will be able to: ensure airway patency in patients with face-jaw injuries.

Competence

1.Independently choose and practically realize anesthesia and analgesia in emergency situations, including during the diagnostic procedures and manipulations in the prehospital and hospital Admission Department phase.