First Aid - DA0101018

• Title: First Aid
• Guaranteed by: Department of Anaesthesiology and ICM (13-383)
• Faculty: Second Faculty of Medicine
• Actual: from 2017
• Semester: winter
• Points: 5
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/2, C+Ex [HT]
• Extent per academic year: 14 [weeks]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Guarantor: doc. MUDr. Tomáš Vymazal, Ph.D.
• Classification: Medicine > Basic Sciences
• Interchangeability : DA0101019
• Is interchangeable with: DA0101019

Annotation

Last update: MUDr. Martin Filaun, CSc. (27.04.2017)

Compulsatory subject is dealing with teaching first aid on level trained layperson. Subject include teaching of BLS in theory and practice according to actual guidelines, teaching first aid in all common situations requiring first aid and information of first aid organisation system.

Aim of the course

Last update: MUDr. Martin Filaun, CSc. (27.04.2017)

Aim of the subject is to manage basic life support with practice on models inculing AED and to manage to provide first aid in theory and practice in individual situations.

Course completion requirements

Last update: MUDr. Martin Filaun, CSc. (27.04.2017)

Subject is finished with oral exam, with need of credit before. To receive the credit it is necessary to attend seminars. Two absences is possible to tolerate during whole semestr. Oral exam include two questions and possible complementary questions from examiner according his consideration.

Literature

Last update: MUDr. Martin Filaun, CSc. (19.04.2017)

First Aid Manual, revised 10th edition

Publ.: Dorling Kindersley Ltd. 2016

Requirements to the exam

Last update: MUDr. Martin Filaun, CSc. (01.10.2017)

Exam questions - First aid

1. Principle of first aid, organization

2. Cardiac arrest - cardiac and respiratory causes, differences in aproach

3. Causes of airways obstruction, methods of airways opening

4. Mouth to mouth breathing – principle, technique, modifications

5. Chest compressions – principle, technique

6. BLS – basic steps

7. BLS in child and newborn – basic steps

8. AED – principle, method of use

9. First aid in unconscious patient

10. Collapse, faintness

11. Seizures – causes, first aid

12. Shock – definition, types, basic steps in first aid

13. Wounds – types, treatment

14. Bandage – types, examples of using

15. Bleeding – types, practical aproach in stopping

16. Heat injury – burns, insolation, heatstroke

17. Cold injury – frostbite, undercooling

18. Chemical burns

19. Poisoning – first aid

20. Electric current injuries

21. Drowning and near drowning

22. Head injury

23. Face injury, eye injury, epistaxis

24. Spine column and spine cord injury

25. Chest injury, including pneumotorax, first aid

26. Abdominal injury

27. Bones and joint injuries

28. Allergic reactions

29. Chest pain – causes, first aid

30. Abdominal emergencies

31. Rapid delivery

32. First aid in mentally ill patients

33. Positioning and transport

34. Mass accident, basic steps in first aid

Syllabus

Last update: MUDr. Martin Filaun, CSc. (27.04.2017)

Introduction in first aid, basic terms, history

Basic life support according to ERC guidelines 2015

Automated external defibrilation

First aid in shock

Abdomen and chest injuries

Bleeding

Positioning, transport

Bone and joint injuries, bandage and fixation

First aid in comatose patient

First aid in head, spine and spinal cord injuries

First aid in optalmology, ENT and stomatology, small injuries

First aid in thermal, cold and electric current injuries

First aid in near drawning, poisoning and chemical injuries

Mass accident