Critical Care Medicine 2011

PRE – 1111
Critical Care Medicine 2011

This pre-course will provide the opportunity for the participant to understand the principles of diagnosis and management of common clinical problems and conditions encountered in the intensive care unit. Particular attention will be placed on the recognition of disease process, acute management of critical illness, and prevention of complications of critical illness in the critically ill adult patient.

Topics include acute coronary syndromes and myocardial infarction, acute stroke management, acute lung injury and ARDS, venous thromboembolism and pulmonary embolism, drug overdose, septic shock, and severe pneumonia. Also discussed will be the management of patients with a wide variety of infectious diseases, approaches to nutritional, pharmacologic, and mechanical ventilatory support of the critically ill patient, and methods for preventing common complications in the critically ill patient.