(Compulsory course / Teaching hours per week: 2 / Laboratory training: 3 hours /Assessment: final exam at the end of each term or September/ Credits: 3)
G. Filntisis (Professor), Department of Nursing, NKUoA
• What is First Aid
• Action at an Emergency
• Airway obstruction
• Basic Life Support - Advanced Life Support
• Patients transportation
• Finding out what is wrong
• Shock, fainting, severe allergic reactions, anaphylaxis
• Bleeding, trauma, amputations, infections, tetanus
• Dressing and bandages
• Head, eye, nose, dental, chest, abdomen, finger and toe injuries
• Animal, Human, snake, spider bites, insect and marine animal stings
• Burns, cold and heat related emergencies
• Bone joint and muscle injuries- dislocation of major joints
• Poisoning
• Heart attack, angina pectoris, stroke, seizures, asthmatic attack, diabetic emergencies
• First aid supplies
• Safety rules in family and social life
Laboratory: CPR-manekin, dressings and bandages etc.