Prehospital Emergency Medical Care (MPH120)

Content

• The organization of EMS and the challenges of delivering high-quality emergency care in the resource- limited prehospital environment
• Identification of the time-critical non-traumatic emergency patient
• Pathophysiology, clinical presentation, current research and pre-hospital critical care options in selected emergency situation
• The specific patient related topics covered will include:
• Respiratory emergencies
• Cardiocirculatory emergencies
• Neurologic emergencies
• Specific medical emergencies or sub-groups of patients
• Inter-professional teamwork and team resource management in prehospital patient management
• Critical decision making in prehospital critical emergency medicine
• Strategies for self-evaluation in the treatment of the critically ill patient
• Strategies for analyzing and evaluating the standard of treatment provided for the critically ill patient by the participants own EMS
• Organization of prehospital patient management and patient flow
• Introduction to scientific writing including plagiarism

Learning outcome

A candidate who has completed this course should have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills, and general competence:

Knowledge

The candidate

• Can discuss and reflect upon the latest scientific evidence and current best practice in key areas of prehospital critical emergency medicine with focus on the application and the implementation in emergency medical services (EMS)
• Can analyse different EMS systems from the individual provider level to the systemic level and the interaction with cooperating agencies and hospital systems.
• Knows the basics of scientific writing, including referencing, structure and plagiarism

Skills

The candidate

• Can demonstrate competence in searching and identifying scientific papers; and in scientific reading and interpretation of the data obtained from databases
• Can identify and explain different study types
• Can demonstrate the ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team
• Can appraise different strategies of high-quality patient management, both on an individual provider level and on a systemic level

General Competence

The candidate

• Can demonstrate the ability to critically review new knowledge and scientific literature, and discuss its implication on current practice, both on the individual provider- and systemic level
• Can display the ability to plan, execute, analyse and reflect upon the management of patients with critical non-traumatic medical emergency according to current medical evidence and current best practice

Required prerequisite knowledge

Exam

Coursework requirements

1. All students must select a scientific paper reporting on a study within prehospital emergency medical care, critically read the selected paper and prepare a brief oral presentation.
2. 80% class attendance. If more than 50% attendance is achieved the student will be given an individual evaluation.
3. The mandatory web seminar on scientific writing incl. plagiarism requires 100% attendance which is not included in the overall 80% class attendance. If the student fails to attend, a comprehensive text on scientific writing incl. plagiarism must be submitted and approved before the course exam can be taken.

All of the coursework reqirements must be approved before a candidate can attend examinations in this course.

Course teacher(s)

Course coordinator:

Study Program Director:

Method of work

Open for

Course assessment

Literature