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First Aid - PZTV111C
Title: First Aid
Guaranteed by: Department of Adapted Physical Education and Sport Medicine (51-300300)
Faculty: Faculty of Physical Education and Sport
Actual: from 2023
Semester: summer
Points: 0
E-Credits: 2
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:1/1, C+Ex [HT]
Extent per academic year: 28 [hours]
Capacity: unlimited / 16 (16)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: MUDr. Michaela Malá
Teacher(s): MUDr. Michaela Malá
In complex incompatibility with: PFYZ219C
Annotation -
Last update: MUDr. Michaela Malá (18.06.2019)
The obligatory course provides the students with theoretical knowledge and practical skills of care for victims during different types of emegrencies (life-threatening conditions, sudden illnesses, injuries). Students will be acquainted with procedures in mass accidents, extreme events and crisis situations. In practical lessons the students learn CPR in adults and children, the usage of AED.
Aim of the course
Last update: MUDr. Michaela Malá (23.10.2023)

The obligatory course provides the students with theoretical knowledge and practical skills of care for victims during different types of emegrencies (life-threatening conditions, sudden illnesses, injuries). Students will be acquainted with procedures in mass accidents, extreme events and crisis situations. In practical lessons the students learn CPR in adults and children, the usage of AED.

The goal of the subject is to equip the student with such knowledge and skills that after graduation:

 

• demonstrates knowledge of the basic causes, symptoms and procedures of FA in life-threatening conditions, in head, chest, abdomen, spine and musculoskeletal injuries, in thermal injuries and in selected acute non-traumatic conditions

• is able to demonstrate control of consciousness , control of breath and opening of  airways

• is able to demonstrate techniques for removing a foreign body from the airways

• is able to perform emergency resuscitation in adults and children, including the use of a training AED device

• is able to demonstrate basic FA positions

Literature -
Last update: MUDr. Michaela Malá (18.06.2019)

AAOS. First Aid, CPR, and AED: Standard - 7th edition. Jones & Bartlett Publishers, 2017. ISBN 9781284041613.

KARREN, K.J. First Aid for Colleges and Universities - 10th edition. Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Co., 2012. ISBN 9780321732590.

ST JOHN AMBULANCE. First Aid Manual - 10th Edition. Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2016. ISBN 9780241241233.

Requirements to the exam
Last update: MUDr. Michaela Malá (10.06.2019)

Credit and exam requirements:

  • presence at lessons and practicals.
  • practical exam.
  • theoretical exam.
Syllabus -
Last update: MUDr. Michaela Malá (10.06.2019)

Lectures:

1. Introduction to First Aid. Action at an emergency. ERC Guidelines.

2. Respiratory problems, airway obstruction. Respiratory arrest.

3. Unconsciousness. Heart and circulatory problems. Cardiac arrest.

4. External and internal bleeding. Shock.

5. Thermal injuries. Burns. Heat illness. Cold exposure. Frostbite.

6. Chest injuries. Pneumothorax. Abdominal injuries.

7. Head and spinal injuries. Injuries of the locomotor system.

Practical lessons:

1. Basic steps of first aid. Treatment of acute airway obstruction.

2. Principles of adult basic life support. CAB Rule.

3. Infant and child basic life support.

4. Bleeding control. Shock treatment.

5. Bandaging techniques. Basic principles of dressing and bandaging.

6. Body positioning. AED.

7. Practical exam.

 
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