Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Introduction to Critical Care Medicine
This course has focused on the management of respiratory failure, trauma and sepsis in the critically ill patient. This included clinical management as well as a basic explanation of high flow nasal oxygen, invasive ventilation and extracorporeal life support and renal replacement therapy.
3 weeks, 4 hours per week
Dr Mo Al-Haddad
Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine
The University of Glasgow
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- 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
Syllabus
- Pneumonia
- Management of multi-organ failure in trauma
- Early recognition and management of sepsis
Issued on 4th October 2021
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