Course Topics
General condition and how to assess it.
Fever as the leading symptom in paediatrics
Sepsis/shock.
Pediatric emergencies:
- Behaviour in an emergency
- Choking/suffocation
- Resuscitation in children
- Drowning
- Anaphylaxis
- Febrile seizure and epileptic fit
- Concussion
- Pseudocroup
- Sun protection/sunstroke
- Accidents
- Burns/scalds
- Poisoning
- Wounds and bites
- Tooth injury
- Dangerous toys
- Equipped for emergencies: Kindergarten/school first aid kit
Common childhood illnesses by body region:
- Head (headache, head injury, unconsciousness, meningitis, middle ear infection, sore throat, reddened eye, itching in the head area, tooth decay)
- Thorax (breathing problems, pseudocroup, asthma)
- Abdomen (stomach flu, constipation, urinary tract infections)
- Genitals (testicular pain, itching in the genital area, pain when urinating)
- Skeleton (bone fractures and joint sprains)
- Skin (dangerous and harmless efflorescences of the skin; frequent infections such as hand, mouth and foot disease, scarlet fever, measles, chickenpox, hives, tick bites, scabies, etc.)
Child protection
- Bruises: accident or not?
- Get to know and recognise forms of child abuse
Propaedeutic courses
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Teaching format
Frontal, small group discussions based on clinical cases, practical exercises on the phantom, group work and development of flow charts for practice