INTERNAL MEDICINE EMERGENCIES

Catalog description

This course introduces the student to different medical situations, such as: acute abdomen, neurology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, urology, toxicology, psychiatry, and hematology emergencies. It integrates the pathophysiology and the findings of the patient’s assessment to implement the treatment in emergency situations. It emphasizes the use of different methods of evaluation, auscultation, palpation, patient history, vital signs and basic infectiology and the management of emergency disorders. Also discussed are the process of basic and advanced levels in patient evaluation in cases of medicine and trauma. The student studies how to execute the primary and secondary assessment and determine the handling, processing and preliminary diagnosis of the patient. Radio telephone communication with medical control for emergency care and transportation techniques are covered.