Introduction to Critical Care Medicine (FutureLearn)

Learn how to handle pneumonia, how to manage multi-organ failure in trauma, how to recognise and manage sepsis early and how to prioritise the management of a trauma patient who needs resuscitation.

Syllabus

Week 1: The Concept of Critical Care, Respiratory Failure and its Management

Week 2: Trauma, Major Haemorrhage and Acute Kidney Injury

Week 3: Sepsis, its Initial Management and the Role of Critical Care

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you'll be able to...

- Describe the meaning of Critical Care Unit and how support is different to that provided in the ward

- Discuss which patients should be managed in Critical Care

- Summarise the management of respiratory failure in critically ill patients in the High Dependency Unit and Intensive Care Unit

- Debate appropriate triage of multiple patients involved in trauma

- Discuss the management of polytrauma patients including the management of major haemorrhage

- Summarise the initial management of a patient with sepsis