Face to face 

PowerPoint, video usage

Mandatory attendance at lectures with the possibility of 2 justified absences

Oral exams 100%

GREEK and ENGLISH

The course gives the basic principles of trauma management

The course syllabus aims to familiarize students with the basic principles of multi-trauma patient management

It also refers to the initial approach to a multi-trauma patient. In this sense the course is the basis on which the student will understand the initial management of trauma.

Finally, the aim of the course is for students to understand the significance of Initial trauma approach in a distinct scientific field.

Upon successful completion of the course the student will be able to:

• Understand the pathophysiology of the multi-trauma patient, as well as the necessary actions that must be completed within the first “golden” hour when the trauma patient enters the emergency department.
• Is aware of the basic principles of a multi-trauma patient management with emphasis on the initial actions of the attending physician upon the arrival of the patient in the emergency department.
• Is able to clarify the way of thinking by practical application of the knowledge provided during the course to virtual patients.

1. Principles of multiple injuries and shock management
2. Airway
3. Shock
4. Primary and Secondary Assessment
5. Head, Thorax, Abdominal, Pelvic and Limbs Trauma
6. Basic principles of burn management
7. Basic principles of pregnant woman trauma management
8. Basic clinical skills (insertion of central venous line, intubation tracheostomy, etc)

-LITERATURE

1. Principles and Practice of Surgery, O. James Garden, Roman W. Parks
2. Current Diagnosis and Treatment Surgery, Way L.W., Doherty G.M        
3. General Surgery, Ι. D. Kanelos
4. Surgery D.K. Voros
5. Farquharson’s Textbook of Operative General Surgery Farqyuarson Μ., Μoran Β
6. General Surgery Textbook Faculty of Surgery, Department of Surgery