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Course Information

Course Title	Code	Semester	L+U Hour	Credits	ECTS
EMERGENCY MEDICINE	TIP4090	7	6 + 6	9.0	3.0

Prerequisites

DYSFUNCTION AND DYSSTRUCTURE OF BODY

Language of Instruction	Turkish
Course Level	Bachelor's Degree
Course Type	Compulsory
Mode of delivery
Course Coordinator
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Assistants
Goals	To provide knowledge of emergency diseases and the attitudes and skills necessary to approach and manage emergency patients.
Course Content	Definition and characteristics of Emergency Medicine, Basic life and advanced cardiac life support, BLS and ACLS case examples and scenarios, Airway management in emergency, Hospital disaster plan and emergency service organization, Practical Application: Introduction to emergency service Approach to emergency patient and Triage, Emergency approach to patient with multiple system trauma, Practical Application: Airway Management – ​​Airway – Intubation – Balloon mask Environmental emergencies, Approach to poisoning, Common symptoms and diseases in emergency, Practical Application: Basic life and advanced cardiac life support Emergency approach to patient with extremity trauma, Emergency approach to spinal trauma, Approach to abdominal trauma, Approach to pediatric trauma patient, Practical Application: Bedside education Approach to thoracic trauma, Shock, Approach to head trauma, Practical Application: Anamnesis-Patient preparation Trauma in geriatric population, Wound care principles and tetanus application, Communication with patients/relatives and personnel in hospital and emergency and its importance, Practical Application: Pelvic bandage-Neck collar-Elastic bandage Imaging in Trauma, What we learned sessions, Practical Application: Imaging in Trauma
Learning Outcomes	1) Explains the principles and classification of approach to the emergency patient and triage. 2) Obtain accurate and relevant information from the patients and perform a full physical examination. 3) Explain and apply basic and advanced life support steps. 4) Explain and apply basic airway techniques and when to use them. 5) Perform emergency interventions to the traumatized patient (such as external bleeding control, bandage, tourniquet, cervical collar). 6) Determine poisonings, apply required baseline emergency treatment, and define referral criteria. 7) Determine life-threatening situations and create a problem list by evaluating anamnesis, physical examination and diagnostic test findings of the patient with urgent complaints, 8) Recognize the shock patient, and initiate emergency treatment. Define and appliey the dynamics of teamwork in life-threatening diseases and situations requiring critical care and resuscitation that apply to the emergency department. 9) Explain what needs to be done to provide healthcare services in extraordinary situations. Define the basic principles of disaster medicine. 10) Adopt the importance of teamwork in the provision of emergency health services.