LF:BZMK021c Medicine of disasters - pract. - Course Information
BZMK021c Medicine of disasters - practice
Faculty of Medicinespring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/1/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching - Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Bc. Vlasta Vařeková (seminar tutor)
- Guaranteed by
- Mgr. Michal Pospíšil
Department of Health Sciences – Departments of Non-medical Branches – Faculty of Medicine
Contact Person: Mgr. Bc. Vlasta Vařeková
Supplier department: Department of Health Sciences – Departments of Non-medical Branches – Faculty of Medicine - Prerequisites (in Czech)
- BZUM0151p Emerg. med. for rescuers - l && BZUM0151c Emerg.med. for rescuers I - p
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Paramedic practice (programme LF, B-ZACH)
- Paramedic (programme LF, B-SZ)
- Course objectives
- Disaster Medicine and Integrated Rescue System is a profiling theoretical and practical subject. Its aim is to prepare students, medical rescuers, both theoretically and practically for dealing with emergencies with a prevalence of medical issues in the pre-hospital and early hospital phase and for cooperation within the Integrated Rescue System.
- Learning outcomes
- The student will be able to: - triage the wounded using the START method, - solving model situations and practical activities with the use of dummies, during an emergency in the pre-hospital and hospital phase, - to practically deal with emergencies in the field from the perspective of a paramedic of the integrated rescue system and to use available medical resources.
- Syllabus
- Solution of model situations and practical training of individual activities with the use of figurants in the pre-hospital phase, solving model situations and practical training of individual activities with the use of mannequins in the pre-hospital phase, including the use of available medical devices. Training in medical triage using the Uniform Triage and Identification Card, training in lay pre-sorting START, participation in interoperability exercises of the integrated rescue system.
- Teaching methods
- recommended literature BULÍKOVÁ, Táňa. Disaster medicine. Martin: Osveta, 2011, 390 s. ISBN 9788080633615. info POKORNÝ, Jiří. Emergency medicine. 1st ed. Prague: Galén, 2004, xxiii, 547. ISBN 8072622595. info undetermined ŠÍN, Robin. Disaster Medicine. First edition. Prague: Galén, 2017, 351 pages. ISBN 9788074922954. info POLÁK, Martin. Emergency admission : the most common signs, symptoms and diseases in the emergency department. Second, revised and supplemented. Prague: Mladá fronta, 2016, 767 pp. ISBN 9788020439390. info BULÍKOVÁ, Táňa and Peter HERMAN. Pre-hospital emergency medicine. Edited by Viliam Dobiáš. 2nd, supplemented and revised. Martin: Osveta, 2012, 740 pages. ISBN 9788080633875. info
- Assessment methods
- Solving model situations, practicing triage and participating in a synergy exercise. Completion/credit: 100% class participation, preparation of a seminar paper on a topic related to disaster medicine, scope and topic to be assigned by the instructor.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 14.
- Enrolment Statistics (spring 2025, recent)
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