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First Aid and Disaster Medicine

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction English
Code 450-2088/02
Abbreviation PPaMK
Course title First Aid and Disaster Medicine
Credits 2
Coordinating department Department of Cybernetics and Biomedical Engineering
Course coordinator doc. MUDr. Leopold Pleva, CSc.

Subject syllabus

First aid
1. General principles of first aid, security of aid, basic first-aid procedures, change in health status
2. Emergency calls for health impairment
3. Assessment of basic life functions
4. First aid for unconsciousness
5. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (children / adults)
6. Shock conditions
7. Basic trauma (wounds and bleeding, head injuries, chest injury, abdominal injuries, limb injuries, spinal and spinal cord injuries)
8. Thermal trauma
9. First aid for intoxication
10. Basic non-traumatic conditions (acute myocardial infarction, cerebrovascular accident, epilepsy, asthmatic attack, etc.)
Disaster Medicine
1. Terminology and typology of disasters
2. Diagnostic and medical treatment of injured at the disaster site and in the hospital facility
3. Chemical and biological damage
4. Principles of treatment, special equipment, decontamination, prevention of disease spread
5. Radiation damage, risk of radiation accidents and leaks
6. War surgery
7. Types of injuries in mass disasters and catastrophes
8. Classification of injured and damage control surgery in the treatment of critical injuries

Labs
1. First aid kit, equipment and use
2. Dressing materials and techniques, wound healing and bleeding, immobilization
3. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (children / adults), AED, aspiration materials
4. Positioning of the disabled, transport possibilities
5. Work in simulated cases

E-learning

Materials are available at https://lms.vsb.cz/?lang=en

Literature

CONSTANTINO, Maria. The first-aid handbook. Leicester: Silverdale Books, 2003, 256 s. ISBN 1856057348 
HOGAN, David E. Disaster Medicine. 2nd Editíon. Kluwer, LWW. ISBN-13: 978-0781762625 

Advised literature

First aid: manual. 9th revised ed. London: Dorling Kindersley, 2011, 288 s. ISBN 9781405362146 
MOORHEAD, Sue. Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC): measurement of health outcomes. 5th ed. St. Louis: Elsevier, c2013, xix, 751 s. ISBN 9780323100106 
Ciottone's Disaster Medicine. 2nd Edition. Elsevier, 2015. ISBN-13: 978-0323286657 .