Course: First Aid Basics

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Course title First Aid Basics
Course code KAZ/K2ZPP
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Cichá Martina, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Tománková Kristína, RNDr. PhD.
Course content
Basic terminology definitions, the IRS, the importance of first aid, safety compliance, examination of the afflicted person. Orientation in accident severity. Emergency resuscitation - provision of airways patency, CPR in adults, children, infants and newborn, ethical aspects of CPR. Unconsciousness quantitative, qualitative impairments of consciousness, faintness, collapse, first aid provision procedure. Shock - types of shock, causes, symptoms, antishock provisions, first aid provision procedure. Bleedings - types of bleeding, symptoms, first aid provision procedure. Wounds - types of wounds and injuries, first aid provision procedure. Poisoning food poisoning, including mushrooms, drug poisoning, alcohol poisoning, carbon monoxide poisoning. Head and brain injuries symptoms, first aid provision procedure. Spine and spinal cord injuries - the mechanisms of injury occurrence, symptoms, first aid provision procedure. Thoracic injuries - types of injuries, symptoms, first aid provision procedure. Injuries to bones and joints - fractures, joint injuries, symptoms, first aid provision procedure. Abdominal and pelvic injuries - types of injuries, symptoms, first aid provision procedure. Injuries caused by heat and cold - burns, sunstroke, heatstroke, hypothermia, frostbites. Acid burns, electric shock injury. Acute conditions in basic disorders acute dyspnoea, cramps, tetany, hypo and hyperglycaemic conditions, nausea, acute diarrhoeas, acute appendicitis.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Training in job and motor Skils
  • Preparation for the Course Credit - 25 hours per semester
  • Homework for Teaching - 25 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The task of discipline is to provide students with a set of theoretical knowledge and practical skills that are important for providing first aid. They become familiar with the most common causes, consequences and symptoms of harm to human health. Recognize the entire array of first aid knowledge and comprehensive procedure for the provision of first aid, which corresponds to the current state of knowledge. The teaching will become familiar with first aid for acute conditions, which directly threaten human life: bleeding, injury to bones and joints, respiratory arrest and circulatory shock, unconsciousness, etc.
1.Students will be able to organize first aid. 2.Students gain theoretical knowledge in first aid. 3.Students will learn practical skills in poskystování first aid.
Prerequisites
Mastering human biology in the range of grammar study.

Assessment methods and criteria
Student performance, Didactic Test

The course is designed exclusively for combined study. Working with a PC connected to the Internet.
Recommended literature
  • Beránková M. Fleková A. Holzhauserová B. (2002). První pomoc. Praha Informatorium.
  • Bydžovský J. (2001). První pomoc. Praha Grada Publisching.
  • Kelnerová, J. (2007). První pomoc I. II.. Grada publishing.


Study plans that include the course
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