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About Study Course

ECTS:4.95
Course supervisor:Vilnis Lietuvietis
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 provide postgraduate theoretical and practical acquirement and improvement of skills to qualify doctors to be practitioners in general surgery according to requirements of regulation, corresponding to the normative documentation of the Latvian Republic.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

1.• Donororgānu acquisition of live and deceased donors (indications and contraindications donororgānu donation, and legal and ethical aspects, donordienesta organization, donor and investigation donororgānu obtaining surgical aspects)
• Kidney transplant recipient preparation for transplantation, transplantation and post-transplant treatment principles, immunosuppression, complications
• Pirmstransplantācijas patient treatment (dialysis), surgical complications in dialysis patients

Skills

1.• To investigate patients with chronic kidney disease prior to inclusion on the waiting list for a transplant
• To choose the correct terminal chronic kidney disease patient treatment tactics with the help of dialysis and transplantation
• To choose the correct treatment of post-transplant patients with urological and surgical complications
• Correctly mean immunosuppressed patients after kidney transplantation
• To provide an initial and immediate assistance for qualified patients with acute kidney transplant pathology
• Interpretation of the applied diagnostic methods (analysis of clinical, radiological, etc.) and the results of examinations
• Learn the most common surgical approaches to blood vessels providing hemodialysis access;

Competence

1.Central venous catheterisation (short CEC Independent.) 3-5
Central venous catheterisation (long CEC assistant.) 3-5
Arterio-establishment (assistant). 1 - 3
Organ retrieval (assistant). 1 - 2.
Kidney transplant (assistant).2-3
Renal transplant biopsy (assistant).2-3