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About Study Course

ECTS:11
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

Provide an opportunity to acquire in-depth knowledge of the symptoms, diagnosis, differential diagnosis and treatment principles, methods and manipulations of emergency surgical illnesses, so that the emergency medicine doctor can interpret clinical, laboratory and radiological findings, as well as perform individual manipulations at the stage of the hospital admission department.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

1.• To describe symptoms of acute abdominal cavities, thoracic organ, genito-urinary system, cardiovascular, soft tissue diseases and to formulate the possible differential diagnosis.
• To interpret laboratory and radiological examination findings of the above mentioned diseases, its meaning.
• To formulate indications for surgeon consultation and emergency surgery.

Skills

1.• To interpret symptoms and syndromes of emergency surgical pathology
• To draw up examination plan
• To initiate preparation of the patient for emergency surgery
• To perform surgical treatment of wounds for out-patients in trauma center or in the casualty of the hospital.
• To perform emergency punctures - pleural cavity puncture, ascites puncture.

Competence

1.Detection of surgical diseases, performance of emergency surgical manipulations and organisation of assistance for the patient with surgical pathology until the visit of surgeon or transportation of the patient to the surgeon.