Program Description: 

Medical Emergencies are of strategic importance in the health service systems. Although the complexity of medicine and   attention of medical experts toward specialized issues have led to the development of specialty and subspecialty fields, these issues have also improved the quality of emergency services. The idea to establish emergency medicine came from such problems. 

Parallel to maintaining community based approach and considering the real needs of health system, the program has paid special attention to training of the graduates and has been developed on the basis of educational requirements. Emergency management system, unexpected event management, and prehospital emergency systems have been highlighted in this program.

Objectives:

At the end of the program learners will be competent in the following skills:

• Basic and developed  techniques of airway control
• Mechanical ventilation and administration of patient connected to the ventilator
• Closed chest massage (and other maneuvers used in advanced CPR)
• A variety of central and peripheral vascular procedures and other vascular access  used in emergency
• Needle thoracentesis and Pericardiocentesis
• Chest tube placement
• Conscious sedation for children and adolescents
• Different nerve and regional block  and other forms of analgesia methods used in emergency
• DPL (close or open)
• Reduction of abdominal hernia
• External thrombosed hemorrhoids incisions
• Balloon tamponade in varicose bleeding of digestive system 
• Anoscopy and sigmoidoscopy in treatment planning of emergencies
• Catheterization and bladder irrigation
• Administration of  emergency normal vaginal delivery and episiotomy
• Phthalmology and ENT emergency procedures
• Immobilization of fractures and dislocations with Ethel, casting, and  other  techniques of immobilization

Duration:

      Three years full-time (36 Months)