Introduction to Critical Care Medicine FutureLearn

Overview

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 Introduction to Critical Care Medicine from FutureLearn, find out about the common presentations seen in a Critical Care Unit and how to manage them effectively.

Key facts:

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.

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