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About Study Course

ECTS:7
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:Clinical medicine

Objective

Provide an opportunity to acquire a thorough theoretical knowledge of the emergencies in otorhinolaryngology, their diagnosis and treatment, as well as provide an opportunity to acquire practical skills so that doctors undergoing this course would be able to provide emergency care in simpler cases in the pre-hospita and in the hospital casualty department without attracting specialist.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

1.• Recognize and describe the nose, larynx, ear and throat diseases and injuries and their clinical manifestations, symptoms and syndromes.

Skills

1.• Stop nosebleeds.
• Remove foreign bodies from the nose, throat and ear.
• Performe an urgent Coniotomy.
• Assist in Performing a Tracheostomy.

Competence

1.Evaluate and provide emergency medical assistance and decide on indications for attracting a specialist.