FIRST AID FUNDAMENTALS AND NOTIONS OF CLINICAL ANATOMY
FONDAMENTI DI PRIMO SOCCORSO CON ELEMENTI DI ANATOMIA CLINICA
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2025/2026 | 6 |
Lecturer | Office hours for students | |
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Pietro Gobbi | On line only, by appointment by email (pietro.gobbi@uniurb.it) and the use of Meet platform. |
Teaching in foreign languages |
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Course with optional materials in a foreign language
English
This course is entirely taught in Italian. Study materials can be provided in the foreign language and the final exam can be taken in the foreign language. |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
The course aims to provide the student with skills useful for his intervention, as a person not qualified to exercise the medical profession, in the event that, in his professional life or on another occasion, he should relate to a person who proves to be need medical assistance. The information provided here must only be used to help the person awaiting the intervention of specialized personnel (eg: 118 or Civil Protection). In order to fully understand the rationale of each action indicated here, the description of each dangerous condition or each maneuver must be completed with the description of the anatomical structures involved both as regards the occurrence of the phenomenon described and as regards the approach of the rescuer towards the patient (Clinical Anatomy).
Program
- Approach to the cardiovascular system and interventions on this: arterial pulses and their palpation; the antishock position; heart massage. Assessment of a haemorrhage (definition, types, possibilities and types of haemostasis)
- Approach to the respiratory system and interventions on this: assessment of respiratory activity and saturation; Foreign bodies and clearing of the airways, Artificial Respiration, Lateral Safety Position.
- 112 call and related apps
- Principles of Basic Life Support
- Assessment of the state of consciousness (lipothymia, syncope, shock) and alterations due to drugs of abuse or withdrawal symptoms.
- Conjunctival foreign bodies.
- How to move a wounded man
- The first aid kit and rational use of its contents
Bridging Courses
None.
Learning Achievements (Dublin Descriptors)
- The student must have mastery, adequate to the professional profile of the Pharmacist, of the knowledge necessary to help a person in difficulty based on the contingent situation and the skills already acquired in Human Anatomy and Physiology and must be able to relate these elements of competence with the aspects of Clinical Anatomy related to the situation.
- The student will be able to broaden their understanding of the concepts and theories included in the course; he must therefore be able to theoretically reconstruct the need to approach a person in difficulty in a three-dimensional way.
- The student must possess his / her ability (in theoretical and, where possible, practical terms) to use knowledge and concepts that will allow them to reason according to the specific logic of the discipline independently. In particular, he must be able to understand the relationship between morphology, function and clinical condition, sensing the physopathological potential of his personal intervention on the structures under examination.
- The student must show that he is able to communicate his knowledge in a thorough, precise and exhaustive manner to people already competent in the field of Clinical Anatomy and first aid, as well as being able to summarize and simplify the topics in a popular way to be comprehensible even to those who are not experts, always adopting adequate and precise terminology.
- The student will be able to acquire the ability to reach conclusions, examples or parallels independently, on the basis of what he has learned from the program and on the basis of what he has learned by using supplementary or autonomous sources on his own initiative
- The student must demonstrate full practical mastery of resuscitation maneuvers
Teaching Material
The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it
Supporting Activities
For the teaching of the Course, BLSD, Pediatric BLSD and Heimlich manouver mannequins are used, which are structural equipment of the Course. Each attending student is provided with an individual mouthpiece for pocket mask.
All the material for individual theoretical study is uploaded on the Blended Learning platform.
Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Teaching
Lectures and practical activities and demonstration exercises.
- Innovative teaching methods
flipped lesson during the lessons of learning practical resuscitation techniques
- Attendance
A preparatory adequate knowledge of Human Anatomy and Physiology is necessary.
- Course books
The study texts to be used will basically be those already used in Human Anatomy and Physiology for the parts of the topics concerning Clinical Anatomy.
- First Aid Manual: (10th Edition Revised), DK Editor, Edition: 2016.
The slides of the lessons, with the references relating to first aid, will be uploaded to the Moodle platform at the end of each topic.
As a supplementary material the following text can be recommended:
- Clinical Anatomy: Applied Anatomy for Students and Junior Doctors, 14th Edition, Harold Ellis, Vishy Mahadevan, Wiley-Blackwell Editor, Edition: 2018.
- Assessment
The exam will be both practical and oral. The premise is the demonstration of full acquisition of practical and operational skills by the student of all First Aid resuscitation maneuvers. Those who pass the practical part will take an oral exam that will focus on the ability to discern: the clinical situation, the relative clinical anatomical situation, the oral description of the maneuvers possible in that situation by the rescuer. The oral exam is therefore based on a single question regarding a topic chosen by the student that will form the basis for a broader discussion on the topics related to the chosen topic.
- Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)
Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.
To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.
Additional Information for Non-Attending Students
- Teaching
Non-attending students will be able to use the same teaching material available to attending students. The program to be followed will be the same as that provided for attending students. They will have to independently learn the practical methods of first aid, guided by the theoretical material.
- Attendance
In order to undertake the study of the Course, it is essential that the student has taken the Human Anatomy and Physiology exams and is in full possession of the relevant skills. The student who does not attend will also have to independently acquire the practical first aid intervention skills.
- Course books
The study texts to be used will basically be those already used in Human Anatomy and Physiology for the parts of the topics concerning Clinical Anatomy.
- First Aid Manual: (10th Edition Revised), DK Editor, Edition: 2016.
The slides of the lessons, with the references relating to first aid, will be uploaded to the Moodle platform at the end of each topic.
As a supplementary material the following text can be recommended:
- Clinical Anatomy: Applied Anatomy for Students and Junior Doctors, 14th Edition, Harold Ellis, Vishy Mahadevan, Wiley-Blackwell Editor, Edition: 2018.
- Assessment
The assessment method will be the same as that provided for attending students. To take the practical test, non-attending students must independently provide themselves with a personal pocket mask.
- Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)
Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.
To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.
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