| CODE | NUR1015 | ||||||
| TITLE | Basic Life Support | ||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 2 | ||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Nursing | ||||||
| DESCRIPTION | The content covered in this study-unit is the following: - Basic Life Support in Perspective; - Anatomy and Physiology of the Respiratory, Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Systems; - Coronory Artery Disease and Acute Coronary Syndromes; - Acute Stroke; - Risk Factors for Heart Disease and Stroke; - Adult CPR; - Automated External Difibrillation; - Adult Foreign-Body Airway Obstruction; - Paediatric CPR; - Paediatric Foreign-Body Airway Obstruction; - Safety During CPR Training and Actual Rescue; - Special Resuscitation Situations. Study-unit Aims: To promote consistency in class content and psychomotor skills practice, on this subject of Basic Life Support. The providers will then be responsible for the care that they provide to an injured victim at the level of training that they have had. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Describe the chain of survival as defined by the American Heart Association; - Describe the normal physiology of the heart and lungs; - Define Atherosclerosis and three coronary artery disease processes. These include: Angina, Heart Attack, Sudden Cardiac Death; - Categorize the major risk factors for a heart attack into risk factors which can be changed or not changed; - Describe Prudent Heart Living, as it relates to individual lifestyle; - Identify strategies how to prevent injuries and sudden cardiac arrest in infants and children; - Comprehend the need for CPR and perform, correctly, the following psychomotor skills; - Activation of the emergency response system, rescue breathing using mouth to mouth ventilation, mouth to barrier device ventilation, and bag and mask ventilation with oxygen for adult, infant and child victims, 1 and 2 rescue CPR for adult, infant and child victims, Use of an AED, Relief of FBAO in the responsive and unresponsive victim of any age. 2. Skills: The student will be able to perform the following skills: - Adult 1-Rescuer CPR; - Adult Bag-Mask Ventilation; - Adult 2-Rescuer CPR; - Adult FBAO in the Responsive Victim; - Adult FBAO in the Unresponsive Victim; - Infant 1-Rescuer CPR; - Infant Bag-Mask Ventilation; - Infant FBAO in the Responsive Victim; - Infant FBAO in the Unresponsive Victim; - Infant and Child 2-Rescuer CPR; - Child 1-Rescuer CPR; - Child Bag-Mask Ventilation; - Child FBAO in the Responsive Victim; - Child FBAO in the Unresponsive Victim. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: - Hazinski, M.F., Gonzales, L., & O'Neill, L. (2006). Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers. American Heart Association. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture and Independent Study | ||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Trevor Abela Fiorentino |
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