CODE 67517 ACADEMIC YEAR 2024/2025 CREDITS 2 cfu anno 3 PODOLOGIA 9284 (L/SNT2) - GENOVA SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR MED/41 LANGUAGE Italian TEACHING LOCATION GENOVA SEMESTER 1° Semester MODULES Questo insegnamento è un modulo di: ANESTHESIOLOGY, INTENSIVE CARE AND PHARMACOLOGY TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB OVERVIEW The course of BLS is aimed to teach to recognize life-threatening (cardio-respiratory) emergencies and to activate techniques of basic life support with either adhults, or chindren, even using a defibrillator. AIMS AND CONTENT LEARNING OUTCOMES Learn Basic Living Support (Basic Life Support) techniques to deal with an emergency using the external semiautomatic defibrillator (DAE), as provided by the ILCOR recommendations, pending the arrival of the Emergency Medical Service AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES The outcomes of the course are preparing personnel confident with techniques of basic life support with or without defibrillator. Students will be able to recognize signs of cardio-respiratory arrest and to activate the sequence of procedures to support life parameters (consciousness, ventilation, cardiac activity) in adhults and children, before the arrival of advanced emergency care personnel. TEACHING METHODS -Frontal lessons -Practice with lay figures -laboratory at multimedia UNIGE SYLLABUS/CONTENT Teaching content of BLS Prof . Piero Gianiorio Physiopathology of arrest in adhults and children Chain of survival Evaluation of risk Detection of arrest in adhults and children Call for help Treatment of arrest in adhults and children: Positioning Sequence of cardio-pulmonary support C: (circulation) Techniques for thoracic compressions A: (airway) respiratory tract patency B: (breathing) Techniques of ventilation Basis for the use of defibrillators Pharmacological treatments in adhults and children RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY ILCOR 2015-2020 guidelines TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD FABIO ENZO GIANIORIO Exam Board FABIO ENZO GIANIORIO MASSIMO GRILLI (President and Coordinator of Integrated Course) NICOLO' ANTONINO PATRONITI (President Substitute) LESSONS LESSONS START Lessons start on october Class schedule The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy EXAMS EXAM DESCRIPTION The exam is composed of a brief Interview about BLS theory, followed by practical exercitation ASSESSMENT METHODS Students will be asked to recognize signs of cardio-pulmonary arrest and to initiate proper BLS procedures, according with age and conditions of patients.
