Intensive Care Medicine

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₹25,000.00
  • Intermediate
  • 0 Total Enrolled
  • 300 hours Duration
  • January 31, 2025 Last Updated
  • Enrollment validity: 365 days

About Course

Intensive Care Medicine Course

This comprehensive online intensive care medicine course covers the knowledge and skills needed for a successful career in intensive care medicine (ICM).

This course has been developed in the UK by the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine.

The elearning is suitable for a wide range of healthcare professionals working in critical care around the world, including doctors, nurses, physiotherapists and pharmacists.

 

Online Critical Care Course

Written by Clinicians for Clinicians Globally

You can choose from over 500 intensive care medicine training sessions written by leading subject-matter-experts and clinical educators in the UK.

e-ICM, which is suitable for both trainees and fully qualified practitioners, features dedicated ICM sessions and relevant material from our award-winning anaesthesia, acute medicine, surgery, radiology and end-of-life care courses.

There is an introductory pathway covering key concepts and terminology relating to critical care, which is ideal for doctors, nurses and critical care practitioners.

Another pathway covers hard-to-reach areas of the curriculum that are sometimes challenging to address due to limited clinical exposure.

e-ICM gives you access to a wide range of material from a single knowledge source – saving you time and money.

The quality-assured content is mapped to the UK’s ICM curriculum and COBATRICE – an international programme designed to harmonise ICM training in Europe and other world regions.

It includes 3D clinical diagrams, photographs and multiple-choice questions.

These questions, which are linked to articles from the British Journal of Anaesthesia, help to embed learning and understanding on the complex principles involved.

 

What Will You Learn?

  • This comprehensive online course covers intensive care medicine in-depth
  • Suitable for doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, pharmacists globally
  • Developed in the UK by the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine

Course Content

Anaesthesia for Stage 1 ICM
Module 1 provides an overview and introduction to anaesthesia. It is particularly suited to a doctor undertaking the first 3 months of an attachment to anaesthesia during Stage 1 training. The topic areas covered are: • The Operating Theatre Environment • Basic Science for Novice Trainees • Anaesthetic Equipment for Novice Trainees • Preoperative Assessment and Management • Induction of Anaesthesia and Intraoperative Management • Postoperative Management • Critical Incidents and Management of Cardio/Respiratory Arrest

  • The Operating Theatre Environment
    00:00
  • Basic Science for Novice Trainees
    00:00
  • Anaesthetic Equipment for Novice Trainees
    00:00
  • Preoperative Assessment and Management
    00:00
  • Induction of Anaesthesia and Intraoperative Management
    00:00
  • Postoperative Management
    00:00
  • Critical Incidents and Management of Cardio/Respiratory Arrest
    00:00

General Concepts of ICM
Module 2 provides an overview of the general aspects of clinical intensive care medicine that are not specific to a particular disease or patient group. The topic areas covered are: • Identifying the critically-ill patient • Organ support • Nutrition and fluid therapy • Analgesia and sedation • Costs and unwanted effects of care • End of life care • Transfer medicine

Medicine and Surgery for ICM
Module 3 describes the wide spectrum of disease that presenting to a critical care unit. An overview of pathologies is presented, which have been classified by medical and surgical specialty.

Infectious Disease and ICM
Module 4 provides an overview of the prevention, and treatment of infectious disease within intensive care medicine. The syndrome of sepsis and common disease states caused by infection are described. An overview is also provided of common causative pathogens encountered in intensive care medicine.

Trauma
Module 5 provides an introduction to the management of trauma, and an overview of traumatic injuries.

Procedures, Investigations and Monitoring in ICM
Module 6 gives a practical overview of common procedures within critical care. It also includes resources to aid in the interpretation of commonly requested investigations, including imaging studies. Monitoring is discussed, both from a general viewpoint but also more specifically with regards to monitoring the cardiovascular system and intracranial pressure.

Patient Safety in ICM
Module 7 concerns patient safety. Critical incidents and emergencies are covered, as are safe blood transfusion, prescribing and procedures. Situations which may result in an unsafe critical care environment are also addressed.

Non-clinical Topics for ICM
Module 8 gives an introduction to the non-clinical aspects of intensive care medicine. The topic areas covered are: • Research and audit • Clinical governance • Non-technical skills • The law and ICM

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