- Docente: Ursola Renzi
- Credits: 2
- SSD: MED/45
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Rimini
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Imaging and Radiotherapy techniques (cod. 8486)
Course contents
Considerations - Informed Consent
- Identification of the patient
Vital signs - detection of the following vital signs: blood pressure, Frequency
Heart rate, respiratory rate (practical) - Scale of
Values of Vital Signs
Initial evaluation of a patient -
- In airway
- B assessing the presence of breath
- C pulse search and signs of circulation
- Assessment of the state of consciousness
- And exposure (safety position, hypothermia prevention, etc.)
Cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR techniques with one or two rescuers, BLS
Practical exercises)
The trauma patient - immobilization and presentation of the material for the immobilization
(Cervical collar, bendostecche, scoop stretchers)
The critically ill patient: shock, dyspnoea
Changes in level of consciousness (scale = Glascow GCS)
The carriage of emergency - presentation of drugs and principals
The patient under general anesthesia - drugs
Intravenous therapy: instruments (cannula needles, valves, fittings, plugs, infusion sets), directions, objectives, advantages / disadvantages and risks. Types of solution. The prescription. The documentazione.Informazioni to paziente.Vie and intravenous methods. Continuous infusion and intermittent direct injection. peripheral venous catheterization: indications, advantages / disadvantages and factors of appropriateness. Choice of the vein and recommendations. Which veins attack. Which venous catheter use: measures and shape / features. Principals for the venous access; skin antisepsis: Italian method and compared French. Dressing. Complications of intravenous therapy. Calculation for the infusion rate.
Intramuscular therapy. Overall objective: to administer drugs by injection for therapeutic purposes.
support acts. Procedure. Topographic map of the accesses. Syringe choice. Method of preparation. drug injection.
bladder catheterization
Indication. Materials. Procedure
barium enema. digestive tract. Urography-Cystography. Enteroclysis.
Assessment methods
Try practicing on doll on topics covered in class or during practice activities
Office hours
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