GREEK. OPTIONAL IN ENGLISH

Face to face, lectures.

A) Lectures: 12 2-hour lectures in an auditorium held throughout the semester (optional attendance). The lectures – theoretical courses are accompanied (per two theoretical courses) by short video demonstrations related to the practical skills necessary in Intensive Care.

B) Clinical practice-Tutoring Exercises: At the beginning of the spring semester, students are divided into groups of 10-11 people and trained in the Intensive Care Clinic in a row (Only one group of students can be in the ICU, so that each student takes over one patient) . Thus, students are every day at the intensive care clinic (for 4 hours) being trained, as will be analyzed below. That is, every student is obliged to:

1) To train for 4 days during morning hours in the Intensive Care Clinic (for 4 hours) Including 1 hour of training in virtual reality (VR) conditions..

2) To be trained for 2 days for 4 hours at least during on-call hours at the Intensive Care Clinic.

 3) Participate for 2 hours in case problem solving in the form of case presentation in an interactive context.

4) To be trained for 1 hour in prototypes in the Department’s laboratory (Intubation, CPR).

5) To prepare a paper – interesting clinical case in English (preferably) or Greek language. The preparation, instructions and help for the work is in the form of an hourly tutorial.

Use of T.P.E. in Teaching, Laboratory Education and Communication with students (power point)

The evaluation of the student in the Intensive Care course is in Greek and optionally in English

The evaluation is done

a) with an evaluation of the participation in the practical exercise – Tutorial exercises

– appendix B – 10% of the final grade

b) Writing a study in the form of an interesting clinical case in Greek or English

– 20% of the final grade.

c) written with multiple-choice questions (no negative marking) or alternatively oral (will be decided per examination by the clinic faculty members)

– 70% of the final grade

The promotion of the course requires that the Study Writing has been submitted within an acceptable time before the exams. To advance the course, 50% of the multiple choice questions are required to be selected correctly.

The course is the basic course for understanding the main thematic knowledge modules of Intensive Care.

The course material aims at the undergraduate introduction of students to Intensive Care.

It also refers to the pathophysiology of the critically ill patient and to modern methods of monitoring and supporting the vital functions of the human body. In this sense, the course is the basis on which the student will solve complex and urgent problems of clinical medicine.

Finally, the aim of the course is for students to understand the importance of Specialization in Intensive Care, a distinct scientific field/specialty.

General Abilities

Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to use the acquired knowledge in order to:

1. Clinically understands the problems of patients who are in critical condition and require urgent treatment (Lectures and Practical exercise – appendix A)
2. Understands the main points of Pathophysiology and Clinical semiology of Shock and Multiple Organ Failure and the basic strategies for dealing with Shock and Respiratory Failure of the critically ill patient through mechanical ventilation (Lectures and Practice – appendix A)
3. Calculates hemodynamic indicators and respiratory function monitoring parameters and evaluates laboratory data (Interactive teaching – appendix B with a selection of 10 indicators)
4. Analyzes the individual elements of a complex clinical problem of a critically ill patient into its component parts and understanding the pathophysiology that leads to the complex clinical problem (Interactive teaching – appendix B)
5. Formulates value judgment for a complex urgent clinical problem that requires diagnosis and urgent treatment (Interactive teaching – appendix B)
6. Can collaborate with his fellow students and the staff of an Intensive Care Unit to productively distribute the required actions of urgent clinical problems of Intensive Care (Practical exercise-appendix A)
7. Application of knowledge in an international environment using the English language (Tutorial on presenting a common case in English and writing a case (of the patient for whom the student was responsible during his internship at the ICU) in Greek and preferably in English language – appendix C)

1. -Respiratory Failure (Pathophysiology, Types of respiratory failure)
2. – Acid-base balance disorders
3. -Principles of Ventilation Mechanism (Respirators)
4. – Basic principles of heart function. Circulatory Insufficiency (Pathophysiology, -Types of circulatory shock, Hemodynamic Monitoring-Monitoring)
5. -Cardiogenic and non-Cardiogenic Pulmonary Edema
6. -Sepsis, Systemic Inflammatory reaction
7. -Nosocomial Pneumonia
8. – Strokes – Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
9. – Thromboembolism – Pulmonary Embolism
10. -Nutrition

1) Compilation: Intensive Care Unit, Authors: Paul L. Marino, Edited by Spyridon Zakynthinos, Edition: 4th ed./2016

Owner (Publisher): Lagos Dimitrios, ISBN 978-960-7875-94-5 CODE EUDOXOS 59395180 

2) Manual of Intensive Care, Authors: Raoof S, Edited by Epaminondas Zakynthinos, Edition: 1st ed./2010

Owner (Publisher): P.X. PASCHALIDI, ISBN 978-960-489-094-1, CODE EVDOXOS 13257029 

3) Related scientific journals: Critical Care Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine