Refresher Course on Hospital Pediatrics

Objectives

• Carry out an updated review of different pathologies and action protocols in the context of Pediatric Emergencies, in order to provide quality care.
• Improve child care in the Emergency Department, with the optimization of analgesia and sedation procedures.
• Maintain and update professional competence by promoting autonomous and continuous learning.

Competences

At the end of the course, the student will have acquired the knowledge and skills to:

• 1. Perform the diagnosis and management of infections of the Central Nervous System.
• 2. Select the different complementary tests, taking into account their clinical value.
• 3. Adequately prioritize pediatric patients in the Emergency Department based on the degree of pain they present.
• 4. Apply analgesia and sedation measures in different urgent situations.
• 5. Adequately identify the patient with Pediatric Inflammatory Syndrome related to SARS CoV2. (SIM-PedS).
• 6. Carry out an adequate differential diagnosis in SIM-Peds with other similar entities.
• 7. Optimize the treatment of these patients.
• 8. Make an adequate diagnosis of cardiomyopathies.
• 9. Properly manage pediatric patients with myocarditis and/or cardiomyopathy.
• 10. Correctly identify the most frequent arrhythmias that occur in pediatrics.
• 11. Use the protocols for action and treatment for the different arrhythmias in the emergency room.
• 12. Identify the main respiratory infections of the lower respiratory tract in pediatrics within the pediatric emergency setting and the criteria for hospital admission.
• 13. Perform the Diagnosis and treatment of latent tuberculosis infection and pulmonary tuberculosis disease in Pediatrics.
• 14. Adequately treat the patient with a seizure in the pediatric emergency setting.
• 15. Adequately identify the different epileptic syndromes that occur in children and know the specific protocols for their initial management.

Methodology

Taught in 15 teaching hours, distributed over 8 sessions: 7 sessions of 2 teaching hours and an evaluation session of 1 hour. The course is taught online through the virtual classroom of Nebrija Global Campus. The lectures scheduled in a calendar previously communicated to the students are broadcast live with the professor's initial teaching presentation and later an interaction with the students to answer questions and pose clinical cases.

• ive virtual lectures.
• Teaching material and bibliography provided by the teaching staff.
• Exercises for students with follow-up. Solving of a clinical case.
• Personalized tutoring sessions.
• The evaluation includes the student following the teaching content. The student will have to take a multiple-choice exam (50 questions, 5 possibilities with only one valid answer), and will need 60% of correct answers to obtain the certificate of achievement and to guarantee the assimilation of concepts and the fulfillment of the objectives. Post-course assessment survey on satisfaction of expectations.