ECTS credits ECTS credits: 4
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 68 Hours of tutorials: 4 Expository Class: 12 Interactive Classroom: 16 Total: 100
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: External department linked to the degrees, Psychiatry, Radiology, Public Health, Nursing and Medicine
Areas: Área externa M.U en Atención Sanitaria, Gestión y Cuidados, Nursing
Center Faculty of Nursing
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
This is a subject with theoretical and practical contents that must teach and train the student to be able to:
1. Recognize symptoms and clinical signs of severe diseases.
2. Identify critically ill patients.
3. Know the most prevalent emergencies and their treatment.
4. Make a quick assessment and triage of ill persons according to clinical scores.
5. Recognize respiratory and cardiac failure, as well as cardiorespiratory arrest.
6. Play an effective role during emergencies, with coordination and teamwork.
7. Perform quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation, adapted to the scene and the available resources.
8. Apply airway, breathing, circulation and neurological advanced care in critically ill patients.
9. Know the life support procedures, to put them in practice and to solve eventual problems.
10. Inform adequately the critically ill patient and his family. To obtain informed consents in emergent situations.
11. Recognize brain death, to collaborate to request organ donation and to perform organ maintenance care.
L1. Patient safety in ICU. Patient safety surveillance programs. BZ, NZ, ITUZ, RZ.
2. Basic care of the critical patient. Grooming, skin care, mouth, eyes, UPP prevention. Safe relay.
3. Invasive and non-invasive monitoring. Interpretation of curves and values.
4. Care of the patient with cardiological disorders.
5. Circulatory assist devices: MCP, BIAC, IMPELLA, ECMO.
6. Care of the patient undergoing mechanical ventilation: VMNI, VMI.
7. Patient care with alt. Neurological.
8. Shock. Care and hemodynamic support of the patient. Project “SEPSIS CODE”
9. Care of the patient undergoing continuous extrarenal clearance (TCDE).
10. Sedation, analgesia and agitation.
11. Advanced life support. Recommendations European Resuscitation Council.
Basic bibliography (accessible to USC members).
Marino, P. L., & Sutin, K. M. El libro de la UCI. Wolters Kluwer/Lippincot Williams & Wilkins. 2008. Signatura: I 33 I 33 A
Acceso on line: http://iacobus.usc.es/search~S1*gag?/YUCI&searchscope=1&SORT=DZ/YUCI&se…
Unidad de cuidados intensivos. Estándares y recomendaciones [documento en Internet]. Madrid: Ministerio de Sanidad y Política Social; 2010. https://www.mscbs.gob.es/organizacion/sns/planCalidadSNS/docs/UCI.pdf
Tamayo Gómez E (editor). Medicina crítica y emergencias. Valladolid : Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid; 2017. A MIU 50 (volumen 1) A MIU 50 (volumen 2)
Castilla Martínez M (director). Manual de cuidados de enfermería en la insuficiencia respiratoria aguda: principios de ventilación mecánica no invasiva y otros tratamientos de soporte respiratorio.
Madrid : Bubook Publishing; 2015. G 442
Asociación y Escuela Internacional de Ventilación Mecánica No Invasiva, editor. Cuidados de enfermería en ventilación mecánica no invasiva. Fundamentos. Murcia : Asociación y Escuela Internacional de Ventilación Mecánica No Invasiva; 2010. I 52
Comisión paritaria sociedad española de medicina intensiva, crítica y unidades coronarias (SEMICYUC) y organización nacional de trasplantes (ONT). Protocolo nacional de mantenimiento del potencial
donante en muerte encefálica. Febrero 2020. https://semicyuc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Protocolo-Nacional-de-M…
Navarro Arnedo JM, Perales Pastor R (editores). Guía práctica de enfermería en el paciente crítico (2ª ed). Hospital General Universitario de Alicante. Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos; marzo 2012. https://elenfermerodelpendiente.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/manual_crit…
Jameson JL, Fauci AS, Kasper DL, Hauser SL, Longo DL, Loscalzo J. Harrison. Manual de Medicina (20ª ed.). Mac Graw Hill; 2020. https://accessmedicina-mhmedical-com.ezbusc.usc.gal/book.aspx?bookid=29…
Ministerio de Sanidad. Seguridad del Paciente [sede Web]. Plan de Calidad para el Sistema Nacional de Salud. https://www.seguridaddelpaciente.es/es/practicas-seguras/seguridad-paci…
Further reading:
• AACN: American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. AACN was established in 1969 to assist in the training of nurses working in the newly created intensive care units. This American Association of Critical Care Nurses is the world's largest organization in a nursing specialty, with more than 65,000 members representing the United States of America and 45 other countries. AT: https://www.aacn.org/
• ACCCN. Australian College of Critical Care Nurses. The ACCCN represents more than 2,500 Australian critical care nursing professionals. Its affiliates work in all critical care areas (emergencies, cardiothoracic care, general intensive care units, pediatric intensive care units, coronary units, etc.), as well as in the academic and training fields. At: Https://www.acccn.com.au/
• ANECIPN. National Association of Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing. Available online at: http://anecipn.org/
• NIARTI.ssociazione Nazionale Infermieri di Area Critica https://www.aniarti.it/
• BACCN.British Association of Critical Care Nurses. https://www.baccn.org/
• CACCN.Canadian Association of Critical Care Nurses. at: http://www.caccn.ca
• AEEC. Andalusian Society of Critical Care Nursing. Founded in 1999, the Andalusian Society of Critical Care Nursing (SAECC), is a non-profit scientific organization, created under the initiative of a group of nurses from the critical care environment, from the healthcare areas and management. This multi-center team arises in response to the need to create a common project for Andalusian professionals who carry out their work in the field of critical care, in which to define the conceptual framework for professional action, with the fundamental objective of establishing improvement strategies. of the quality of our care, in order to provide society with a scientific benchmark in everything concerning the care of critically ill patients. SAEEC. Andalusian Society of Critical Care Nursing [online]. Available through the Internet at: http://www.saecc.net/
• SEEIUC. Spanish Society of Intensive Nursing and Coronary Units https://emicyuc.org/
• Spanish Cardiology Society [website]. https://secardiologia.es/
• Spanish Society of Intensive, Critical Medicine and Coronary Units. SEMICYUC [Web]. https://semicyuc.org/
• European Resuscitation Council (ERC). https://www.erc.edu/
GENERAL
Specialization of the student in his/her training in management and care of the patient in critical situation and with vital compromise.
SPECIFICALS
To know the psychosocial aspects of the critically ill patient
To know the sociology and anthopolgy of care
To know different Critical Care Units
To know the different clinical situations of the critically ill patient
To know the variated social and family aspects and the psychosociology of the critically ill patient
To perform critical care procedures creating a therapeutic relationship with ill patients and families.
Teaching methodology
Expository teaching:
It will be based on face-to-face theoretical lessons, presented by the teacher with the help of the available teaching resources. Question times and small debates will be opened.
Interactive teaching:
Face-to-face sessions that will deal with specific topics, which can complement or develop specific aspects introduced in expository teaching or introduce topics that will be addressed entirely through this methodology. In these sessions, the active participation of students, group work and debate based on rational and scientific arguments will be encouraged. Simulations and problem solving will also be carried out posing them as clinical cases.
The evaluation will include the following sections:
Objective face-to-face test by means of a test questionnaire that will evaluate both the knowledge acquired in the expository and interactive classes. It will weigh 70%.
Face-to-face test of practical skills acquired during the seminars. Clinical cases and problem solving will be proposed and resolved by oral examination. It will weigh 30%.
Minimum requirements to pass the subject:
- Correctly answer 50% of the questions on the objective test.
- Answer correctly 50% of the problems and tests raised in the practical test.
PRESENTIAL WORK:
- Classroom: 12 hours
- Seminar: 16 hours
- Tutoring: 4 hours
Total face-to-face work: 32 hours
STUDENT PERSONAL WORK, NOT PRESENTIAL:
- Individual study of expository teaching: 36 hours
- Recommended reading, library or similar activities, for seminars: 32 hours
Total personal work of students: 68 hours
Total hours of study: 100 hours.
1. Active participation.
2. Systematic and continued study and preparation of subjects.
3. Comment of doubts with the teacher.
4. To try interelation of contents, lookingfor usefulness and profesional practice impact.
5. To consider the study as a complementary learning tool and not as a program that must be studied to pass an exam.
6. To regularly assist to the libray to know and read the relevant references.
7. To visit suggested web pages to obtain additional information and tools to solve the proposed clinical situations.
8. To engage actively int seminars and skillstations, as a method to obtain the best results.
9. By means of constructive critics, to try to give inputs ot improve contents and dynamics of the subject.
10. To collaborate actively with peer in order to reinforce learning.
It´s necessary to follow Instruction No. 1/2017, of the General Secretaria of the USC, on the waiver of class attendance in certain circumstances.
Information on this, can be obtained at the following link:
http://www.usc.es/gl/centros/cc_ educacion/dispensa_asistencia_clase.html
Students must necessarily use the USC email (RAI account) in their communication with the teaching staff.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY
The delivery of works in digital format will be promoted. If a printed work is requested for the subject, either individual or group, the following indications will be taken into account:
- Avoid plastic caps or other unnecessary outer wraps.
- Whenever possible, use staples instead of spirals.
- "Ink-saving" quality double-sided printing.
- Do not use blank sheets as chapter or part dividers.
- Avoid annexes that do not have direct reference to the topics covered in the papers.
For more information see https://www.usc.gal/es/usc/institucional/desarrollo-sostenible
GENDER PERSPECTIVE
In view of the criteria of gender equality in the university environment, it is recommended to use non-sexist language both in daily classroom work and in requested academic work. The information can be obtained at the following link:
http://www.usc.es/export/sites/default/gl/servizos/oix/descargas/lingua…
Other measures will also be used to apply the gender approach in teaching, such as the recognition and consideration of the particular situations of students, the promotion of an egalitarian climate of interactions, the egalitarian organization of groups whenever possible, the deployment of scientific contributions and techniques. of women in the subject and of the students themselves, and the introduction of gender as a category of analysis of students' work.
PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION
The regulations on privacy and protection of personal data available at https://www.usc.gal/gl/normativa/protecciondatos/index.html will be followed.
MOBILE PHONE USE
The use of the mobile phone in the classroom is restricted to its use as a work tool, following the instructions given by the teacher, holding the student responsible for the legal and academic consequences that may arise from improper use of it.
Sandra Vidal Martínez
Coordinador/a- Department
- Psychiatry, Radiology, Public Health, Nursing and Medicine
- Area
- Nursing
- sandravidal.martinez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: LOU (Organic Law for Universities) Associate University Professor
| Tuesday | |||
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| 16:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Spanish | Classroom 2.03 |
| 18:00-20:30 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | Spanish | Laboratory 4.05 |
| Wednesday | |||
| 16:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Spanish | Classroom 2.03 |
| 18:00-20:30 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | Spanish | Laboratory 4.05 |
| 01.17.2025 16:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 2.03 |
| 06.20.2025 16:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Laboratory 4.06 |