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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