Veidlapa Nr. M-3 (8)

Course Description Status: Approved

Course Description Version: 25/26.R.1.00

Description Period: 2025./26 academic year rudens semestris

Study Course Accepted: -

Study Course Description

Emergency Infectology for Adults

Main Study Course Information

Course Code
RNM_026
Branch of Science
Anatomy; Clinical medicine
ECTS
1.95
Target Audience
Medicine
LQF
Level 8

Study Course Implementer

Course Supervisor
Aleksejs Višņakovs

Residency Speciality

Speciality
Emergency Medicine Doctor
Supervisor of Medical Speciality
Aleksejs Višņakovs
Contacts

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About Study Course

Objective

Description of most common infection deseases. to promote knowledge acquisition and to develop understanding and skills related to clinical manifestations, differential diagnosis, emergency medicine of most common infectious diseases in prehospital and hospital stage.

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge

1.• describe acute infection symptoms, diagnostic methods and treatment; • explain fever differential diagnosis; • arrange symptoms of infectious diseases, internal diseases and surgical diseases for differential diagnosis.

Skills

1.• formulate indications for immediate hospitalization of infectious patients; • organise examination and treatment plan; • difference infection deseases from internal and surcigal deseases; • initiate immediate treatment of deseases in pre-hospital and hospital stage; • fill the urgent report on infectious diseases; • take samples of biological material for diagnostic of infectious diseases. Clinical skills: Gastric lavage through a probe, Peripheral venous catheterisation, Take samples of biological material for diagnostic of infectious diseases.

Competences

1.the most common infectious disease diagnosis, differential diagnosis and emergency provision of pre-hospital and hospital stage.

Study Course Theme Plan

FULL-TIME
Part 1
Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
1.95
Number of Residency Seminars:
0
Length (weeks):
4
Final Examination:
Residency exam (Theory and practice)

Bibliography

Required Reading

1.

• William G.Gossman, Scott H.Plantz. Emergency medicine oral board review, fourth edition. McGraw-Hill medical publishing Division, 2006, 452 p.

2.

• Amal Mattu, Deepi Goyal. Emergency medicine: Avoiding the Pitfalls and Improving the outcomes, Blackwell publishing, 2007, 111 p.

3.

• J.P. Wyatt et al.Oxford handbook of accident and emergency medicine, second edition, Oxford university press, 2005, 713 p., p.209-245

4.

• Luca M.Bigatello, Rae M.Allain et al. Critical Care Handbook of the Massachusetts General Hospital, Fourth Edition, Lippincott Williams&Wilkins, 2006, 887 p., p.212-232

5.

• Mazjānis I. „Infekcijas slimību rokasgrāmata”, Rīga, 1997