Department of Oxiology and Emergency Care

Background Oxyology – the science of rapid intervention as described by the famous Hungarian physician Aurel Gabor – is a specialisation that has been recognized since 1975. The main task of the Department of Oxyology and Emergency Care is the training of paramedics at the highest possible level. It is our mission to qualify health care providers not only for the National Ambulance Services but also for the national emergency departments. The department is also responsible for the first aid teaching at the Faculty of Medicine in English and German language, and for first aid classes held at the Faculty of Dentistry.

Besides theoretical and practical B.Sc. trainings, we offer postgraduate specialist trainings for qualified nurses and paramedics, and regular accredited courses in various areas of acute care for physicians and nurses. We have been participating in the training of the Doctoral School of the Faculty with an independent research subject since 2009, while regularly offering advanced education for the students of Semmelweis University’s School of PhD Studies.

The Department manages its tasks with four full-time members and a number of highly qualified consulting teachers. Practical teaching is organized with the co-operation of the National Ambulance Service, hospital practices are completed in accredited teaching hospitals.

Education

• Regularly provides vocational and postgraduate trainings.
• Closely connected with the new University Emergency Centre in terms of clinical practice and bedside teaching.
• An established relationship with the University of Massachusetts, Department of Emergency Medicine in the area of research and development.
• Members of the Department participate in numerous professional and societal organizations of acute care and cooperate with the Hungarian Society of Emergency Medicine and the Hungarian Society of Oxyology.
• The leader of the Department is an active Examiner in Emergency Medicine for the European Board of Emergency Medicine and is also the president of the University Board of Oxyology and Emergency Medicine.
• We offer a possibility of doctoral training for nurses, paramedics and physicians possessing a university degree.
• Students can join the School of PhD Studies offering participation and thesis work on “Point-of-care technologies in emergency medical care” and awaiting the establishment of the the Doctoral School of Health Sciences, where PhD topics will be announced.
• We have joined the  MSc training programme targeting intrahospital emergency care, resulting in the qualification of APNs, (Advanced Practice Nurses), those capable health care professionals who work in the emergency departments under the supervision of the lead physician.

Research

PhD research topics:

• Point of Care technologies in emergency medical care

Students’ Scientific Association research topics:

• Acute Coronary Syndrome
• First aid training
• Pain relief
• Airway management
• Rescue direction
• Position and activities of paramedics in the Emergency Department
• Care of the polytrauma patients
• Shock management
• Mental aspects of rescue/emergency work
• Complex cardipulmonary resuscitation
• Communication in emergency situations
• Role players and standardized patients in HiFi simulation.

Dr. SZÉKELY Andrea

University associate professor, Head of department

Dr. HORNYÁK István

College associate professor

Dr. MOSKOLA Vladimír

Senior lecturer

NAGY Tamás
        Assistant lecturer

OZSVÁRT Barbara
       Assistant lecturer