Critical Care in the Prehospital Environment (10 cr)
Code: SX00EC82-3001
General information
Enrollment
27.11.2023 - 10.12.2023
Timing
08.01.2024 - 15.05.2024
Number of ECTS credits allocated
10 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
School of Health Care
Campus
Myllypurontie 1
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Seats
20 - 35
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Emergency Care
Teachers
- Jukka Kettunen
- Sami Mikkonen
- Janni Koski
- Satu Lindgren
- Ari-Pekka Åker
Teacher in charge
Jukka Kettunen
Groups
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SXK20S1Ensihoidon tutkinto-ohjelma, päivä
Objective
The student:
- is able to apply occupational and patient safety issues in prehospital care
- deepens his knowledge and skills in the prehospital care of different patient groups
- is introduced to more demanding and rare prehospital care incidents
- is able to justify his decisions from a emergency medical perspective
- broadens his knowledge to different medical specialties and their prehospital care possibilities in the future
- broadens his knowledge in the EMS provided home services and how they are produced
- is able to apply his acute care knowledge in the prehospital environment
Content
- anesthesiology and advanced airway and ventilation management
- traumatology and critical trauma patients in prehospital care
- cardiology and advanced ECG interpretation
- neurology in prehospital care
- pediatrics in prehospital care
- safe prehospital delivery
- advanced pharmaceuticals in prehospital care
- EMS provided home services
- deeper knowledge on acute and prehospital care
- national EMS testing
Evaluation scale
0-5
Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)
See the attachment "Framework for evaluation criteria of competence"
Evaluating competences evaluation criteria expert level is used.
Prerequisites
A minimum of 90 credits of clinical nursing studies.
Acute and prehospital emergency care competence.
The student and tutor teacher go through other recommended studies in the HOPS discussions.