Jeddah Community College
Official Course Description
HIT 106
First Aid
Credited Units
Lec
Lab
2
2
0
This course is designed to provide some information about the most commonly first aid. The topics include
anaphylaxis, animal bites, bleeding or hemorrhage, burns, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, poisoning, foreign
objects, fractures (broken bones), pains, fevers, puncture wounds and motion sickness.
Prerequisites: HIT 104
Goodman & Gilman's the Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, 2006.
Textbook(s):
Course Competencies:
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Introduction to toxicology and pharmacology
Types of toxic chemicals
Definition of allergy, drugs and foods that causes allergy and treatment of allergy
Types of diseases that caused by animal bites
Causes, signs and symptoms and treatment of tetanus, snakebite and rabies
Definition, causes and treatment of hemorrhage
Chemical and electrical burns, treatment of minor burns and major burns
Definition, causes and treatment of cardiovascular diseases as heart attack, angina
pectoris, arrhythmia hypotension and hypertension
Food, gas, chemical and drug poisoning
Management of foreign objects in the ear, nose, eye, skin, inhaled and swallowed
Definition, and treatments of fractures (bone broken)
Types and treatments of pains
Describe the fever, body temperature and treatment of fever
Definition and treatment of different kinds of wounds
Describe, sign and treatment of motion sickness
Course Outline:
(1) Anaphylaxis
* Definition
* Causes of allergy
* Drugs that cause allergy
* Treatment of anaphylaxis
(2) Animal bites
* Types of the diseases that caused by animal bites
* Treatment of tetanus, snakebite and rabies
(3) Bleeding or hemorrhage
* Definition
* Causes of bleeding
* Treatment of bleeding
(4) Burns
* Classification of burns (First-degree burns and Second-degree burns)
* Treatment of minor burns and major burns
* Chemical burns
* Electrical burns
(5) Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
* Heart attack
* Angina pectoris
* Arrhythmia
* Hypotension
* Hypertension
* Pulmonary embolism
* Pneumonia
(6) Poisoning
* Food poisons as botulism
* Poisonous gases as carbon monoxide
* Poisonous chemicals as gasoline
* Poisonous drugs
* Causes, sign, symptoms and treatment
(7) Foreign objects
* Foreign objects in the ear
* Foreign objects in the eye
* Foreign objects in the nose
* Foreign objects in the skin
* Foreign objects inhaled
* Foreign objects swallowed
(8) Fractures (broken bones)
* Definition of fractures
* Sign and symptoms
* Treatments
(9) Pains
* Head pains
* Toothache
* Gastroenteritis
* Colic
* Causes, signs, symptoms and treatment
(10) Fevers
(11) Puncture wounds
(12) Motion sickness
Course Outcome:
1- The studying of the toxicity and toxicity produced by organic compounds, foods and
different drugs.
2- The studying of some heart diseases as hypotension, hypertension, arrhythmia and heart
arrest
and how can treat these conditions.
3- Demonstrate knowledge about different medical problems that can be found in life as
allergy,
animals bite and bone fraction and the students will know sign and symptoms and how can
treat
these problems.