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7E00BR46	Emergency Care Medicine, Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (5 cr)
Prerequisites	Pass on Basics of Emergency Medicine and Resuscitation or the student has gained the corresponding knowledge and Proficiency Examination of Basic Level Prehospital emergency care. Pass on Major Public Health Problems and Medical Studies I or corresponding knowledge.
Objectives	Student has gained general knowledge of diseases and injuries requiring advanced level prehospital emergency care. Student demonstrates ability to apply medical knowledge, treatment instructions and consultation into emergency care practice at advanced level. Student is able to choose and use medically reliable sources of information to justify treatment decisions. Student orientates him/herself to techniques used in the field of anaesthesiology and deepens the medical knowledge of anaesthesiology. Student orientates him/herself to intensive care medicine in order to be able to apply medical knowledge to the care of critically ill patients.
Content	Haemodynamically unstable patient. Brain catastrophes and severe skull injuries. Patients with coronary diseases; arrhythmia and interpretation of 13-lead electrocardiograms. Severe respiratory insufficiency. Patients with multi-injuries. Anaesthesia in prehospital settings. Patients with burn injuries. Cannulation of the external jugular vein; emergency thoracocentesis; cricothyreotomy; cardiac pacing (external pacemaker); Io infusion. Infections. Gynaecological and paediatric emergencies. Near-drowning and hypothermia victims. Poisonings and overdosage of medicines. Fitness for anaesthesia; forms and techniques of anaesthesia; perioperative care; pharmacology; pain management; patients with special characteristics. Diseases requiring intensive care; objectives for care and intensive care. Patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), aetiology and intensive care. Circulation problems; objectives for care; tissue perfusion problems and intensive care. Intensive care of patients with skull or brain injury. Acute renal failure and intensive care. Infections, metabolic disorders and their treatments. MODS and DIC, and intensive care.
Recommended optional programme components	If necessary, the student advisor will recommend optional programme components for each student based on their individual study plan.
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Further Information	Teacher in charge: Petri Roivainen
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