Diagnostics and differentiation of disorders of consciousness and providing emergency care (lecture)

Almost any disease at the height of its course (trauma, inflammatory processes, surgical processes, etc.) can be accompanied by impaired consciousness (dizziness, collapse, coma). A doctor of any specialty (including a family doctor, an emergency medical team at the pre-hospital stage, or doctors in inpatient care facilities) must diagnose a state of impaired consciousness in a patient/victim, assess it, and provide emergency care. In other words, the ability to provide emergency care to a patient is an absolute requirement for any medical professional, regardless of their specialty. The relevance of this topic is especially important today, during the war in Ukraine.