Extensionist pioneering at the Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte: online course in first aids and basic life support

Abstract

The university´s extension has as main aim to develop interventions that impact and embrace the society. The first aids and basic life support (BLS) in the UERN has as principal objective to include, by means of the dissemination of the practical and theoretical knowledge, the first aids procedures turned to the general public, by means of an accessible language and of dynamical methodologies. Conditions of urgency and emergency are presented, usually the most frequent in the pre-hospital´ treatment, where precocious intervention word as the way to save lives, by means of practical and theoretical classes. This work tried to show how these initiatives have been developed, implanting new modalities of access to technical information about first aids, as well as all the used strategies to train effectively academic and not academic people. This Project have been under execution since 2013 and, consequently due to the importance of the theme, every year, the number of trained participants have been increasing, corroborating to the quality of the information presented and to the backup of the university and the citizens. In this way, it is of extremely importance the continuity of the permanent character of the course, in order to promote the importance and constant actualization in the field so neglected and recurrent, also considering, the promotion of the health in the virtual world too, bringing the information to any place in the world with internet access.

Keywords

• Primeiros Socorros
• Suporte Básico de Vida
• Extensão Comunitária
• Educação à Distância