Clinical Narcology (Alcohol) (RNA_016)
About Study Course
Objective
To ensure the acquisition of theoretical knowledge and practical skills about alcohol-induced mental and behavioral disorders, their diagnosis, differential diagnosis, clinical manifestations, psychopharmacotherapy, basic principles of treatment and care.
Learning outcomes
1.• Learn about the effects of alcohol on the human body;
• Formulate the genetic, psychological and social factors that influence the development of addiction;
• Formulate harmful alcohol abuse, addiction syndrome, their diagnostic criteria;
• Classify variants of alcohol psychoses and describe their clinical manifestations;
• Outline the physiological bases of the formation of addiction and the involved receptor systems;
• Formulate and justify the chosen methods of alcohol addiction treatment;
• Explain the pharmacokinetics, indications and contraindications of medications used in the treatment of alcohol addiction;
• To provide knowledge about harmful use, addiction syndrome, diagnostic criteria;
• To acquire knowledge about alcohol-induced abstinence syndrome, its diagnosis, examinations, treatment;
• Learn the specifics of alcohol addiction in patients with mental illnesses;
• Define the basic principles of alcohol addiction treatment.
1.• Recognize and evaluate the state of alcohol intoxication and its possible complications;
• Recognize the clinical manifestations of alcohol psychoses;
• Diagnose alcohol addiction by describing syndromes;
• Evaluate and treat alcohol withdrawal syndrome;
• Evaluate CNS and other organ dysfunctions caused by alcohol consumption;
• Know the medications used in the treatment of alcohol addiction and use an individual approach to each patient;
• Be able to use a multiprofessional approach in the treatment of each patient;
• Be able to evaluate the severity of the patient's addiction and teach how to create a motivation-enhancing consultation;
• Explain health disorders caused by alcohol, possible assistance measures, in an understandable way to the patient;
• Describe in the medical documentation the anamnestic data obtained about the patient, clinical examinations and formulate the diagnosis according to ISK-10.
1.• Recognize and provide emergency narcological assistance for alcohol intoxication, abstinence and alcohol psychosis states.
• To implement emergency diagnostic and therapeutic measures for complications of acute intoxication and abstinence.
• Treat alcohol addiction patients according to approved technologies and guidelines.
• Organize consultations, further care in specialized institutions.
• Be aware of the limits of your professional competence.
