First Aid - DA1101019

• Title: First Aid
• Guaranteed by: Department of Anaesthesiology and ICM (13-383)
• Faculty: Second Faculty of Medicine
• Actual: from 2022
• Semester: winter
• Points: 3
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:14/28, C+Ex [HS]
• Extent per academic year: 14 [weeks]
• Capacity: unlimited / unlimited (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Guarantor: doc. MUDr. Tomáš Vymazal, Ph.D.

Annotation

Last update: MUDr. Jan Bureš (22.10.2022)

First Aid teaches basic techniques and approach used in First Aid. That includes basic CPR according to latest guidelines. The course involves 6 lectures that give the necessary pre-learning background followed by 14 subsequent practical seminars. Mini – Simulations and Case-Based learning will be the main teaching forms. The 13th seminar is dedicated to revision of difficult topics or as a substitute for cancelled ones. The 14th seminar is for testing the practical approach and gained skills. Credits will be given. There is a necessary pre- learning to be fulfilled in order to be able to follow the seminars. All students will be actively involved in simulations. There is a possibility for getting dirty clothes. Students are advised to wear a propriate outfits for the classes. Lectures take place at the Small Lecture Hall in main building. Practical seminars take place in an old building on Plzeňská street. The entrance is from Plzenska street. There is a sign ČVUT on the building. After passing the gate it is the building on the left side. The entrance to the building is opposite to the garage. The classroom is on the first floor, on the left. Substitution for missed classes is possible within one week only. There is no possibility to come any other weeks. All missed content needs to be self studied. If a student has no other chance but to attend practical seminar with a different study group an email must be sent to the responsible staff whether there is a room. Please write to MUDr. Michal Garaj, email: [e-mail] In case of your illness please send an appology.

Aim of the course

Last update: MUDr. Jan Bureš (01.10.2022)

Recognition of life threateing conditions

Activating the chain of survivor

Performing CPR efficiently

Performing the First Aid in different environments and conditions

Course completion requirements

Last update: MUDr. Jan Bureš (01.10.2022)

Credits are given for practical performing of CPR according to the guidelines and performing First Aid in a given situation.

The exam is oral, there will be a set of two quesions, if the answer doesnt meet the accepted standard an aditional question may be given.

All seminars ale compulsory.

In case of more than two missed seminars there will be an additional testing from missed seminars otherwise credits may not be given.

If there are more than 4 missed seminars the subject needs to be taken again.

Literature

Last update: MUDr. Martin Filaun, CSc. (12.09.2022)

First Aid Manual, revised 10th edition

Publ.: Dorling Kindersley Ltd. 2016

Requirements to the exam

Last update: MUDr. Jan Bureš (01.10.2022)

The Exam questions:

1. Unconsciousness – basic approach

2. Suffocation in children and adults, foreign body airway obstruction, drowning

3. CPR – basic principles

4. CPR – adults

5. CPR – children

6. Automated External Defibrillator (AED)

7. Comparison of CPR in children and adults

8. Bleeding, amputation

9. Positioning, transportation

10. Principles of first-aid, safety, communication with integrated rescue system

11. Injury of bones and joints, immobilization

12. Car accident – basics of safety approach

13. Car accident – main rules of the first contact with injured

14. Spinal injury

15. Dyspnea – adults

16. Dyspnea – children

17. First aid in patients with diabetes

18. Cramps, stroke, central nervous system infections

19. First aid in pregnancy, childbirth

20. Initial treatment in a newborn

21. Burns, sunstroke

22. Hypothermia, frostbites, electric current injury

23. Allergy, anaphylaxis

24. Intoxication, chemical injury

25. Acute situations in children

26. Facial injury – basic treatment

Syllabus

Last update: MUDr. Jan Bureš (01.10.2022)

Lectures – 6 weeks (1 hour 40 minutes)

1. Organization, CPR (guidelines, children, adult, newborn, AED, telephonically – assisted CPR), unconsciousness, self-safety, positioning

2. Bleeding, amputation, bandages, injury of joints and bones, immobilization, car-accident, spinal injury, transport, facial injury (teeth, eye, epistaxis)

3. First aid in patients with diabetes, cramps, stroke, central nervous system infections, intoxication, chemical injury

4. First aid in pregnancy, childbirth, approach to newborn, acute situations in children

5. Burn and heat injury, hypothermia, frostbite, electric current injury

6. Dyspnea, suffocation – foreign body airway obstruction, asthma, allergy, anaphylaxis, pneumothorax, hyperventilation, myocardial infarction

Lessons – 14 weeks (1 hour 40 minutes)

1. Organization, simulation medicine, unconsciousness, positioning, self-safety

2. CPR adult

3. CPR children

4. CPR complex scenarios (telephonically – assisted CPR, AED, resuscitation masks)

5. Bleeding, bandages

6. Car-accident, spinal injury

7. Joints and bones injury, immobilization techniques, transportation

8. First aid in patients with diabetes, cramps, stroke, central nervous system infections

9. First aid in pregnancy, childbirth, approach to newborn

10. Burn and heat injury, hypothermia, frostbite, intoxication, chemical injury

11. Dyspnea, suffocation – foreign body airway obstruction, asthma, allergy, anaphylaxis, pneumothorax, hyperventilation, myocardial infarction

12. Acute conditions in children (epiglottitis, laryngitis, febrile cramps, abdominal pain, foreign body – airways, gastro-intestinal system, hypothermia, communication)

13. Optional lesson

14. Credits, practical exam