Information Package / Course Catalogue
First Aid and Emergency Care
Course Code: TRZM004
Course Type: Area Elective
Couse Group: Short Cycle (Associate's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 2
Prt.: 0
Credit: 2
Lab: 0
ECTS: 2
Objectives of the Course

To provide skills and competencies related to first aid procedures to be followed in emergency situations.

Course Content

Basic first aid procedures include initial and secondary assessment, basic life support in adults, children, and infants, first aid for airway obstruction, external and internal bleeding, wounds and types of wounds, localized injuries, first aid for head and spinal fractures, first aid for upper extremity, hip, and lower extremity fractures, dislocations, and sprains, first aid for illnesses requiring emergency care, poisoning, heatstroke, burns and frostbite, foreign body obstructions, emergency transport techniques, rapid transport techniques over short distances, and transporting patients or injured individuals using a stretcher.

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