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First Aid - PZTV205C
Title: První pomoc
Guaranteed by: Zdravotní TV a tělovýchovné lékařství (51-500300)
Faculty: Faculty of Physical Education and Sport
Actual: from 2019
Semester: summer
Points: 0
E-Credits: 3
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:1/1, C+Ex [HT]
Extent per academic year: 28 [hours]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (16)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: not taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Guarantor: MUDr. Michaela Malá
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Annotation -
Last update: MUDr. Simona Majorová (25.11.2010)
The obligatory courses give the students the basic introduction to the meaning, the types and the role of First Aid in the health care system. In practical lessons the students learn the principles of first aid in life-threatening emergencies and the main principles of fixation, immobilization and bandaging.
Literature -
Last update: MUDr. Simona Majorová (08.11.2010)

HANDAL, K.A., The American Red Cross First Aid and Safety Handbook. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1992

First Aid Manual. London: Brown Publishing, 2006

WYATT, J.P. et al., Oxford Handbook of Emergency Medicine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008

Requirements to the exam -
Last update: MUDr. Simona Majorová (08.11.2010)

Credit and exam requirements:

  • minimum 80% presence, practical knowledge of CPR and bandaging techniques.
  • credit, theoretical exam, practical exam.

Syllabus -
Last update: MUDr. Simona Majorová (08.11.2010)

Lectures:

1. Introduction to First Aid, the meaning and the types of First Aid. Action at an emergency.

2. Respiratory problems, airway obstruction. Respiratory arrest.

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

4. External and internal bleeding. Shock.

5. Thermal injuries. Burns. Heat illness. Electrical and chemical injuries. Cold exposure. Frostbite.

6. Chest and abdominal injuries. Pneumothorax.

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

Practical lessons:

1. Principles of adult basic life support. Treatment of acute airway obstruction.

2. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).

3. CPR. Stopping the bleeding. Shock treatment.

4. Bandaging techniques I.

5. Bandaging techniques II.

6. Infant and child basic life support.

7. Practical exam.

 
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