Health Care and First Aid
Course code
KTM6019.LT
old course code
KTM6019
Course title in Estonian
Tervishoid ja esmaabi
Course title in English
Health Care and First Aid
ECTS credits
3.0
Assessment form
Examination
lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
lecturer of 2024/2025 Spring semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
Course aims
To give students knowledge about health care and skills to administer first-aid and resuscitation in emergencies.
Brief description of the course
Professional health and work safety. Professional diseases and accidents.Work environment.Physiological, psychological and biological health s risk factors.Health care.Health care organisatsion and health economics.Correct succession of practical steps in the event of a severe accident. Life threatening bleeding, control of blood loss. Causes of unconsciousness and their quick assessment. Resuscitation. First aid for suffocation, fainting and shock, wounds, electrical injuries, burns, poisoning, chemical burns, fractures, sprains, dislocations, bruises, effects of extremes of temperature (heat, frost), sudden child birth. Teaching of bandaging. Carrying and transport of victims. Psychological first aid.
Teacher
Andrus Lehtmets; Marju Peärnberg
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