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Students acquire knowledge of the following areas: 1. Fundamental aspects
of the treatement in ICU a. Artificial ventilation and airway management
b. Sedation in ICU c. nutrition and bowel care d. temperature control e. Pain
management: causes of pain, pathophysiological mechanisms of pain, pain
assessment, treatment, side effects with excessive use of analgesics, chronic
pain 2. Monitoring of the patient in ICU a. Respiratory monitoring
b. Haemodynamic monitoring c. Blood results d. Neurological monitoring
3. Acute respiratory distress syndrome: mechanisms of occurrence, diagnosis,
treatment and possible complications 4. Infection control 5. Acute coronary
syndromes: pathophysiological mechanisms of occurrence; diagnostics; treatment,
risk elimination mechanisms; rehabilitation 6. Hepatic failure: causes,
pathophysiological mechanisms and laboratory results in hepatic failure; dangers
of hepatic coma; treatment and possible complications within the process of
treatment 7. Acute renal failure: possible causes, laboratory results and
pathophysiological mechanisms that leads to renal failure; dialysis and
complications that can occur within the treatment process 8. Sepsis: causes of
sepsis, microbiological diagnostics, laboratory results, treatment,
antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and alternative treatments for infections.
9. Central nervous system injury: causes of injuries; pathophysiological
mechanisms of brain and spinal cord injury, treatment, possible complications
after injury and after treatment process 10. Diabetes: types of diabetes;
pathophysiological mechanisms and laboratory results and treatment, possible
complications in untreated diabetes; life-threatening hypoglycaemia and
hyperglycaemia 11. Brain death and maintenance of the potential donor organs