THE INITIAL TREATMENT OF TRAUMA FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS. THE ATLS PHILOSOPHY

THE INITIAL TREATMENT OF TRAUMA FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS. THE ATLS PHILOSOPHY

THE INITIAL TREATMENT OF TRAUMA FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS. THE ATLS PHILOSOPHY

Lesson Code: XP0250

Professor in charge: Zacharoulis Dimitrios, Professor

Other Teachers: MILTIADIS MATSAGAS, ZOE DAILIANAS, KYRIAKOS SPHLIOPOULOS, KONSTANTINOS PATERAKIS, KONSTANTINOS DAFOPOULOS, KONSTANTINOS FOUTAS, ELENI ARNAOUTOGLOU, GEORGIOS KOUVELOS, METAXIA BAREKA, ALEXANDROS DIAMANTIS

ECTS: 2.00

Type|Type of Course: OP | SCIENTIFIC AREA

Teaching Semester: 13th Semester

Hours per week: 2 hours

Total Time (Teaching Hours + Student Workload) 54 Hours

Prerequisites: NO

Language of Instruction: GREEK /ENGLISH (if Erasmus+ students choose the lesson)

Available for Erasmus: YES

Semester Lectures: Coming Soon…

Teaching Method:

Face to face

PowerPoint, video usage


Evaluation Method: Mandatory attendance at lectures with the possibility of 2 excused absences

Oral exams 100%

Greek and English


Objective Objectives/Desired Results: The course gives the basic principles for dealing with trauma.

The course material aims to acquaint the students with the basic principles of dealing with polytrauma

It also refers to the initial treatment of polytrauma. In this sense, the course is the basis on which the student will understand the initial treatment of trauma.

Finally, the aim of the course is the understanding by the students of the importance of the initial treatment of the Trauma by the students of Medicine in a distinct scientific field.

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

  • He has an understanding of the pathophysiology of polytrauma, as well as the first necessary actions that must be taken in the first "golden" hour when the injured person enters the emergency department.
  • He has knowledge of the basic principles of dealing with multiple injuries with an emphasis on the first actions of the doctor upon the arrival of the injured in the emergency department.
  • He is able to clarify his thinking by practical application of the knowledge provided during the course on virtual patients.

General Skills

Search, analysis and synthesis of data and information, using the necessary technologies

Adaptation to new situations

Decision making

Autonomous work

Teamwork

Work in an international environment

Work in an interdisciplinary environment

Generating new research ideas

Project planning and management

Respect for diversity and multiculturalism

Respect for the natural environment

Demonstrating social, professional and ethical responsibility and sensitivity to gender issues

Exercise criticism and self-criticism

Promotion of free, creative and inductive thinking


Course URL : http://www.med.uth.gr/DetailsLes.aspx?id=117

Course Description: 1. Principles of treating multiple trauma and shock.
2. Manipulation of the airway
-3. Surprise
-4. Primary and Secondary Assessment
-5. Head, Chest, Abdomen, Pelvis and limb trauma.
-6. Basic principles of burn treatment
-7. Basic principles of treating a pregnant woman
-8. Basic medical procedures (insertion of a central venous line, intubation, tracheostomy, etc.)

Recommended reading: -Suggested Bibliography:

  1. Notes of Professor of Surgery Mr. Dimitrios Zacharoulis
  2. Principles of Surgery – Theory and Practice, O. James Garden, Rowan W. Parks
  3. Current Modern Surgical Diagnosis and Treatment, Way LW, Doherty GM
  4. General Surgery, I. D. Kanelos
  5. Farqyuarson's Surgery - operative techniques, Farqyuarson M., Moran B.
  6. Faculty Member Surgery, Department of Surgery

-Related scientific journals


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