Health Professions of Prevention Sciences

Program: - Historical notes on cardiopulmonary resuscitation. - Overview of the anatomy and physiology of the cardiopulmonary system, concept of homeostasis. - What are Basic Life Support (acronym BLS) and Pediatric Basic Life Support (acronym PBLS), and their importance. - Law 24/2017 on the definition and adoption of guidelines, recommendations, and best practices: BLS/D guidelines. - Cardiac arrest, sudden death, myocardial infarction in adults: differences, causes, warning signs. - Respiratory arrest: respiratory failure, airway obstruction: causes and signs, dynamic relationship with cardiac arrest. - The time factor in cardiac and respiratory arrest. - PBLS in infants and children: anatomical differences. - Causes of cardiac arrest and respiratory failure in pediatric age. - The Chain of Survival: Adult and Pediatric. - Environmental Safety. - ABCs: Recognition of the state of consciousness, breathing, and circulation (GAS and MO.TO.RE) in adults and pediatrics. - The Recovery Position and Neutral Head Position. - Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Techniques and Maneuvers: Adults, infants, and children (infants). - Recognition and main causes of partial and complete airway obstruction: in adults, infants, and children. - Airway clearance maneuvers and the Heimlich maneuver in adults, infants, and children. - Main characteristics of the AED, use, and placement of paddles in infants, children, and adults. - CPR maneuvers using the Semi-Automatic/Automatic Defibrillator: Importance – Precautions. - Training and practice through the use of videos shown in the classroom.

The teaching materials, handouts, slides, and video tutorials will be provided by the teacher.

Lectures and use of video tutorials, classroom exercises.

To pass the exam, a grade of at least 18/30 is required. Students must demonstrate sufficient knowledge of the topics covered in the course and be able to connect them logically and coherently. To achieve a grade of 30/30 with honors, students must demonstrate excellent knowledge of all the topics covered in the course and be able to connect them logically and coherently.

Lectures and use of video tutorials, classroom exercises.