FIRST AID COURSE
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2015/2016
- Teacher
- DAVIDE SIGHINOLFI
- Credits
- 3
- Didactic period
- Secondo Semestre
- SSD
- MED/09
Training objectives
- To educate to the safety and diffusion of the first aid culture and of the cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the community for operators who are involved in sport activities.
Prerequisites
- Knowledge of human anatomy and physiology
Course programme
- First Aid and legal problems
First aid interventions (Protect-Activate-Rescue) and how to access to the Territorial Emergency Medical Service 118
Assessment and first aid intervention in the following disorders:
1. deterioration of consciousness: confusional state, fainting, syncope, seizures, coma, acute hypoglycemia.
2. deterioration of breathing: dyspnea, acute asthma, hyperventilation, foreign-body airway obstruction.
3. deterioration of circulation: collapse, stroke, anaphylactic shock.
Assessment and first aid intervention of the chest pain: angina, myocardial infarction.
ADULT CARDIO-PULMONARY RESUSCITATION TECHNIQUES
(B.L.S.: Basic Life Support: practice in simulated scenarios with a manikin.)
Knowledge and abilities to be achieved at the end of the course:
Evaluation of the environmental risks
Recognition of the alarm signs of a heart attack
Concept of sudden death
Concept of cerebral anoxic injury
The chain of survival
The BLS sequence:
1.evaluation of the vital functions
2.activation of the Emergency Medical System
3.placement- lining up of the victim
4.open the airway: head tilt chin lift, removal of a foreign body only if visible.
5.mouth-to-mouth and mouth-to-mask ventilation
6.chest compressions interrupted by ventilations
7.one-rescuer rescue
8.the recovery position
9.foreign-body airway obstruction: how to recognize and manage it
PEDIATRIC CARDIO-PULMONARY RESUSCITATION TECHNIQUES
(P.B.L.S.: Pediatric Basic Life Support: practice in simulated scenarios with a manikin)
THE FIRST AID in minor traumatology:
bruises, sprains, joints dislocations, fractures, head trauma, spinal cord trauma, thoracic and abdominal trauma, wounds and bleedings, burn injuries, electrical injuries
THE FIRST AID in acute poisoning (carbon monoxide poisoning) Didactic methods
- Frontal lectures and analysis of several videos and practice in simulated scenarios with a manikin
Learning assessment procedures
- Written exam
The aim of the examination is to evaluate the study of matter, the understanding of the subjects and to verify the level of achievement of the learning objectives stated.
The written test includes 30 multiple choice questions, covering all the topics covered during the course, which includes four possible answers of which only correct, that is: 1 point for a correct answer; 0 points for a wrong answer or no answer.
To pass the test the student must acquire at least 29 points out of 61. The time allowed for the test is 30 min. It is not allowed to consult texts or use PCs, smart phones, calculators, or other electronic devices.
Further details are provided in the first and last lesson, during which there will be a simulation test. Reference texts
- Emergency Response (Mcgrow Hill). International guidelines of the American Heart Association
