This postgraduate certificate addresses the main aspects of Digestive Emergencies in Primary Care, so that you will be able to face situations that can compromise a patient's life. Learn how to identify, initially care for and eventually transfer digestive pathology patients from primary care to a hospital center”

This postgraduate certificate in Digestive Emergencies in Primary Care is a complete program that includes comprehensive systematized action plans for digestive emergencies, which must be faced by medical professionals in primary care in their daily clinical practice, helping them to make prompt and accurate decisions.

The approach to intestinal obstruction, acute gastroenteritis, high biliary pathology or acute gastrointestinal bleeding are some of the topics that this course deals with in detail. Furthermore, a section is dedicated in depth to update the procedures for patients with abdominal pain.

The program contents are based on the latest scientific evidence and the experience of renowned professionals in the field of Primary Care, which makes it practical and easy to transfer to routine clinical work.

Expand your knowledge through the postgraduate certificate in Digestive Emergencies in Primary Care in a practical way adapted to your needs”

This postgraduate certificate in Digestive Emergencies in Primary Care is the most complete and up-to-date scientific program on the market. The most important features of the Postgraduate Certificate are:

• Clinical cases presented by experts in the different specialties. The graphic, schematic, and eminently practical contents with which they are created, provide scientific and practical information on the disciplines that are essential for professional practice
• Diagnostic and therapeutic innovations in the most frequent digestive emergencies in the primary health care setting; it also includes the management of abdominal pain, patient care procedures for proctological problems, gastroenteritis, pancreatitis and upper gastrointestinal bleeding
• Presentation of procedures, diagnosis, and treatment techniques
• An algorithm-based interactive learning system for decision-making in the clinical situations presented throughout the course
• With a special emphasis on evidence-based medicine and research methodologies in emergencies
• All of this will be complemented by theoretical lessons, questions to the expert, debate forums on controversial topics, and individual reflection assignments
• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection

This postgraduate certificate may be the best investment you can make when choosing a refresher program for two reasons: in addition to updating your knowledge of Digestive Emergencies in Primary Care, you will obtain qualification issued by TECH”

Forming part of the teaching staff is a group of professionals in the field of Primary Care emergencies, who bring to this training their work experience, as well as renowned specialists recognized by esteemed scientific communities.

The multimedia content developed with the latest educational technology will provide the professional with situated and contextual learning, i.e., a simulated environment that will provide an immersive training program to train in real situations.

This program is designed around Problem Based Learning, whereby the physician must try to solve the different professional practice situations that arise during the course. For this reason, you will be assisted by an innovative, interactive video system created by renowned experts in the field of the primary health care emergencies with extensive teaching experience.

This postgraduate certificate includes real clinical cases and exercises to bring the development of the program closer to clinical practice"

Take the opportunity to update your knowledge of digestive emergencies to improve patient care"

The main program objective is to develop theoretical and practical learning, so that physicians can practically and rigorously master life support maneuvers and invasive emergency techniques in primary health care.

This program will provide you with the skills to carry out your medical praxis with confidence, which will help you grow both personally and professionally”

General Objective

• Provide action rules for dealing with the most frequent digestive emergencies that family physicians must face in their daily clinical practice, helping them to make prompt and accurate decisions

Specific Objectives

• Address patient management for acute abdominal pain
• Describe the abdominal palpation procedure and the clinical significance of the different signs detected
• Establish the clinical characteristics of the main causes of acute abdomen
• Describe the ED approach to patients with bowel obstruction
• Define and establish the differences between paralytic ileus and mechanical ileus or mechanical obstruction
• Establish patient management for acute gastroenteritis
• Differentiate and define the different types of diarrhea and the main exogenous and endogenous causes
• Define acute pancreatitis
• Establish the differences in patient management for severe, mild or chronic acute pancreatitis, and point out its main causes
• Describe the main local and extrapancreatic complications of acute pancreatitis
• Address patient management for acute pancreatitis
• Address patient management for acute biliary pathology
• Highlight biliary pathology symptoms for biliary colic, acute cholecystitis and cholangitis
• Describe the main clinical manifestations of upper gastrointestinal bleeding
• Point out the importance of estimating blood loss for swift patient assessment for hemodynamic status
• Describe the first measures to be taken for patients with acute gastrointestinal bleeding
• Point out the main proctologic emergencies and their basic management

Seize the opportunity and take the step to get up to date on the latest developments in Digestive Emergencies in Primary Care"