- Introduction, definition of requirements for granting a colloquium. - The importance of first aid, the system of first aid (non-professional, medical, technical), first aid legislation. - first aid procedure, examining basic physiological functions (respiration, circulation, consciousness, qantification and qualification assessment). - first aid for respiratory arrest or impairment (foreign body in the airways, out of breath, arrest). - first aid for circulation arrest, indirect heart massage (in adults, small children, infants), cardiopulmonary resuscitation. - first aid for bleeding (arterial pressure points, pressure bandage, tourniquet use; venous, capillary, mixed; internal; bleeding from body orifices). - first aid for head injuries and injuries of spine and spinal cord (commotion cerebri, contusion). Bandaging technique, using available types of dressing materials (patches, roller bandages, slings, etc.). First aid for injuries of bones and joints (sprain, dislocation, fractures - closed, open, splintery). - first aid for damage to a body through heat effects (sunstroke, heatstroke, burns, frostbites, hypothermia, etc.). First aid for injuries caused by electric current. - First aid for drowning. Acute conditions, epileptic seizure and other convulsive conditions, asthma attack, hypo and hyperglycaemic conditions. - Acute conditions - MI, stroke, acute abdomen.
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First aid task of discipline is to provide students with a set of theoretical knowledges and practical skills that are important for providing first aid. Students will be acquainted with the most common causes, consequences and symptoms of the damaged human health. They will learn the whole system of first aid, and comprehensive knowledges in providing first aid, which correspond to the current state of knowledges. The lessons will be included the first aid for acute conditions that directly threaten human life: bleeding, injury to bones and joints, respiratory arrest and circulatory shock and unconsciousness, etc.
After completing the course, students will be able to provide adequate first aid and to focus on the system giving first aid.
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