Emergency Medicine

Data

Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2024-2025

Topic

It is prudent to understand the emergency concept for health care providers not involved in acute care. The purpose of the subject is to understand the aims and principles of emergency care, to get familiar with emergency approach based on focused assessment and care, risk stratification. It is also important to understand the essences of team approach and make patients comfortable by providing safe and patient centered care within our given time-range, i.e. 24 hours.

Lectures

• 1. History of emergency care, emergency aspects, structured communication - Kanizsai Péter László
• 2. Prehospital care - Kanizsai Péter László
• 3. Triage, teamwork - Kanizsai Péter László
• 4. Emergency group of symptoms - Kanizsai Péter László
• 5. Pain syndromes - Kanizsai Péter László
• 6. From door to needle (ACS and stroke care - emergency aspects) - Kanizsai Péter László
• 7. Environmental emergencies - Kanizsai Péter László
• 8. Care of the severely injured - Kanizsai Péter László
• 9. Paediatric emergency care - Kanizsai Péter László
• 10. Toxicology basics - Kanizsai Péter László
• 11. Sepsis in the emergency department - Kanizsai Péter László
• 12. Interactive consultation between the Hungarian university emergency departments - Kanizsai Péter László

Practices

Seminars

Reading material

Obligatory literature

R. Aghababian: Essentials of Emergency Medicine, 2nd edition

Literature developed by the Department

Notes

Recommended literature

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

Test exam.

Mid-term exams

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Making up for missed classes

Personal communication with the tutors.

Exam topics/questions

Website of Emergency Medicine, University of Pécs.

Examiners

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars