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Principles of Emergency and Critical Care

Class at Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové |
FG50009

Syllabus

Lectures: Extent of teaching: 9 h

1. Emergency and critical care - organization, perspectives, general considerations and relationship to the other medical specialties, approach to a critically ill patient (ABCD…)

2. Dyspnoea – definition, causes, diff. diagnosis, initial approach, choice of airway, initiation of mechanical ventilation, initial setting

3. Circulatory failure – shock, shock models, diagnostic approach, interventions – fluids, catecholamines, inotropes, practical targets, extracorporeal support

4. Coma – aetiology, diagnostic approach, initial interventions, sedation outside operating theatre or ICU

5. Life threatening infections – clinical manifestation, sepsis, practical approach

6. Multiple trauma – aetiology, priorities, trauma protocol, life threatening bleeding

7. Traumatic brain injury – initial approach, multimodal monitoring, brain death, organ donation

8. Infusion therapy – basic requirements, correction of fluid deficits, common mineral disorders, nutritional support initiation, algorithm, complications

9. Poisoning, selected interactive cases   Workshops: Extent of teaching: 6h   Simulation cases – 3 hours Simulation cases – 3 hours   Lecturers Prof. Vladimir Cerny, M.D., Ph.D. FCCM doc. Pavel Dostal, M.D., Ph.D., MBA Vlasta Dostalova, M.D., Ph.D., MBA Renata Cerna Parizkova, M.D., Ph.D., LL.M. David Dolezal, M.D. Zuzana Rehackova, M.D. Jindrich Samek, M.D. Jitka Schreiberova, M.D., Ph.D. Anatolij Truhlar, M.D., Ph.D. Zdenek Turek, M.D., Ph. D. Roman Skulec, M.D., Ph.D. Petr Caka, M.D. David Astapenko, M.D., MBA

Annotation

Emergency and critical care: organisation, perspectives, relationship to other medical specialities, critically ill patient: definition, most frequent clinical syndromes, monitoring, airway management, venous access, acute respiratory failure, mechanical ventilation, shock syndromes, basic hemodynamic monitoring, trauma, trauma protocol, severe head injury, metabolic care, parenteral and enteral nutrition, renal failure, renal replacement therapy, ethical issues, brain death, organ donation, transplant programme