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About Study Course

Credit points / ECTS:1 / 1.5
Course supervisor:Indulis Vanags
Course level:Bachelor
Target audience:Public Health; Rehabilitation
Branch of science:Clinical Medicine; Anaesthesiology and Resuscitation

Objective

To teach students to act in urgent, life-threatening situations before the arrival of a doctor.
Perform patient’s primary and secondary survey in pre-hospital stage; perform basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation; perform defibrillation using an automatic defibrillator as indicated; be able to stop dangerous bleeding; immobilize the limb in case of skeletal trauma; provide assistance in case of choking, shock, thermal trauma, hyperthermia, hypothermia, frostbites and acute poisoning.

Prerequisites

Knowledge in biology at secondary school level.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

On successful course completion students will be able to tell and describe sequence of steps in surveying the patient in pre-hospital stage, how to stop dangerous bleeding; immobilize the limb in case of skeletal trauma; how to provide assistance in case of shock, thermal trauma, hyperthermia, hypothermia and acute poisoning.

Skills

Students will be able to perform emergency care, including basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation algorithm, recognize symptoms of clinical and biological death, perform first aid in case of foreign body, perform ventilation with manual ventilator and oxygen inhalations via facial mask, diagnose inner and outer bleeding and perform its suspension, as well as demonstrate ability to work in a team.

Competence

Provide emergency care, primary and secondary survey of the patient in pre-hospital stage, situation analysis providing basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation and other first-aid guidelines, assess the environmental impact of physical factors on the human body and health.

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