Basic Concepts of Anesthesiology

Recommended Prerequisites

1st cycle studies

Teaching Methods

This course has a strong practical component and combines teaching in three different environments:

- 10 hours of training with medical simulation;

- 4 hours of theoretical and practical training in small group teaching;

- 18 hours (three periods of 6 hours) of instruction in the operating room with an anesthetist by student ratio of 1:1 or at most 2:1.

The training methodology is focused primarily on skills development with practical application throughout students’ professional life.

Learning Outcomes

- Recognize the different areas of the operating room (OR) and the different places outside the OR where you can perform anesthesia

- Recognize the key elements in the operating room

- Understand the competencies of the anesthesiologist in the operating room

- Identify the different parts of the anesthesia machine

- Correctly identify the necessary material for the airway management

- Perform mask ventilation

- Perform tracheal intubation technique in a patient without difficult airway criteria

- Perform the technique for placing supra-glottic devices

- Identify the most relevant drugs and their pharmacological groups

- Prepare and administer intravenous drugs

- Apply the basics of sedation and anxiolysis

- Identify the different anesthetic techniques

- Recognize the different phases of anesthetic act (induction, maintenance and recovery)

- Apply the basics of pain therapy

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Anesthesiology Medicine in the XXI century

- Areas of intervention

- Impact of Anesthesiology in the progression of Medicine

Basic concepts in Anesthesiology

- Anxiolysis, sedation, anesthesia, paralysis and analgesia

Anesthesia Basics

- Anesthetic techniques, pharmacology key concepts, indications, contraindications and complications

Airway management and maintenance

- Anatomical concepts, major technical and clinical application

Basic monitoring

- Principles, indications and application

Pain therapy

- Anatomical and physiological bases of pain

- Basic concepts of analgesia

- Analgesic techniques

- Labor analgesia specifications

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Resolution Problems: 20.0%
Laboratory work or Field work: 40.0%
Exam: 40.0%

Bibliography

− MACHADO, Humberto, et al – Manual de Anestesiologia. 1ª edição. Lisboa: Lidel, 2013. ISBN 978-972-757-870-2

− LEVINE, Wilton C, et al - Clinical Anesthesia Procedures of the Massachusetts General Hospital. 8th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2010. ISBN 978-1605474601

− Miller, Ronald D, et al – Miller's Anesthesia. 7th ed. United States of America: Churchill Livingstone, 2010. ISBN: 978-1-4160-6624-8

− MURRAY, W. Bosseau; KYLE Richard - Clinical Simulation: Operations, Engineering, And Management. 1th ed. United States of America: Academic Press, 2007. ISBN 0123725313