Learn how to handle complex issues faced in Critical Care Units when other options on the ward have been exhausted. Learn how to manage common presentations seen in Critical Care Units. Critical care is an emerging specialty in hospitals and, with an increasing population living with multiple co-morbidites, the burden on Critical Care Units is rising. In this course, find out about the common presentations seen in a Critical Care Unit and how to manage them effectively.
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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
