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First Aid

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Duration :5h Th, 10h Pr
Credits/ECTS :
1st year of a Bachelor's degree in biomedical sciences2
1st year of a Bachelor's degree in dental sciences2
1st year of a Bachelor's degree in physiotherapy and readaptation2
1st year of a Bachelor's degree in medicine2
1st year of a Bachelor's degree in motricity sciences2
1st year of a Bachelor's degree in pharmaceutical sciences2
Holder(s) :Maurice Lamy
Course contents : Whether at work or in private life, any citizen is likely to face acute situations.
Our Criminal Code provides for compulsory assistance.

This is even truer for professionals, who must have the required means and specific skills.

The First Aid course aims at providing students with the necessary skills for globally managing emergency or acute situations.

Generally speaking, first-aid skills should include: general situation analysis, ensuring local security, calling rescue teams, giving first-aid treatment and watching over victims while waiting for rescue teams.
Course objective : At the end of the course, students will be able to:
- assess situations;
- see to everyone’s safety;
- move victims in danger;
- get appropriate aid;
- stabilize osteoarticular lesions;
- take care of burns victims;
- control external bleeding;
- anticipate circulation distress (state of shock);
- take care of victims with chest pain;
- and in particular detect vital disorders (consciousness, breathing, circulation) and give appropriate first-aid treatment (clearing the respiratory tract and lateral position, ventilation through mouth-to-mouth resuscitation with or without a protective device, thoracic compression).

Students will also be introduced to Automatic External Defibrillation (AED).
Prerequisites : No specific prerequisite.
Workshops : General objectives:
- Applying general intervention principles to concrete situations
- Training for first-aid techniques (notably with dummies and simulation equipment)

Important remarks:
- Participation to practicals is compulsory.
- Changing groups will be allowed exceptionally subject to student exchange (max. 12 participants in each group).
- Students must wear easy clothing with a view to light physical exercise (avoid skirts, high heels…).

Contents:
Session 1: Intervention principles
Session 2: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (adults, children, infants)
Session 3: First-aid techniques and practical assessment
Organization : Theoretical course
Duration: 5 hours
The first class will be organized at the beginning of university year 2004-2005. The other classes will be organized in the second term (end of practicals).

General objectives:
- Knowing about first-aid organization in Belgium
- Acquiring physiopathology basics
- Assimilating general intervention principles

Support material: video, slide shows

Method: lectures, question sessions


Practicals
Duration: 10 hours in groups of 12 participants

Schedule: 8:30am – 12:00pm (3 sessions)

Hall: Salle Marcel HANQUET (CHU – Bloc Central +2)
Written notes : “Premiers Secours” course book (First Aid), Professeur Maurice Lamy’s lecture notes, prepared by Tony Hosmans, Graduate in Public Health Sciences.

This course book is available on a printable colour computer file:
- CD-ROM (CHU, Tour 2, 1st floor, door 38, from 8:30am to 5:00pm) at 7.00 €
- On the Anaesthesia Department’s Website: http://www.ulg.ac.be/anesrea
Assessment : 1st exam period:
Theory: multiple-choice questionnaire
Practice: individual technical assessment at the end of practicals

Possible 2nd exam period:
multiple-choice questionnaire
Contacts : Lecturer:
Maurice LAMY, Ordinary Professor, Département d’Anesthésie-Réanimation
CHU de Liège (Sart-Tilman), Tour 2 – 1st floor – Office 52
Phone: 04/366 71 80 Fax: 04/366 76 36 E-mail: mlamy@chu.ulg.ac.be
Secretary:
Marie-Claire DEPREZ (04/366 81 36)

Assistant lecturers and assistants:
Professor J. MICHEELS, head of the SMUR (Emergency and Intensive Care Mobile Service), CHU (04/366 81 36)
Mr. T. HOSMANS, Graduate in Public Health Sciences – Out-of-Hospital Emergency Medicine (04/366 77 75)
Mr. M. MARGANNE, Nurse (04/366 81 37)
Ms V. SLAATS, Nurse (04/366 77 75)

Practical exercises are provided with the valuable help of Supervising Students.




ULg : Students and Studies Administration - Academic Affairs
Contact : Monique Marcourt, direction A.E.E.
Date of data : 8/04/2005
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