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Overview
What you will learn
At the end of the Principles of Critical Care Medicine for Non-Intensive Care Specialists cutting-edge CME course offered by Harvard University , you will be able to:
- Review the basic principles of mechanical ventilation and describe indications for noninvasive and invasive ventilation
- Describe evidenced-based approaches to diagnosis and management of common infections in the ICU
- Categorize different types of shock, describe the pathophysiologic mechanism behind each and formulate appropriate treatment strategies
- Identify the evidence-based management of hypoxic failure, including the use of high-flow nasal cannula, lung-protective ventilation, PEEP optimization, proning and ECMO
- Describe the importance of POCUS in the diagnosis of shock and volume status
- Recognize post-intensive care syndrome and describe best practices for management
- Identify contemporary approaches to sedation in the ICU
- Recognize and manage common toxicology emergencies
- Assess cardiac emergencies such as heart failure and unstable arrhythmias
- Describe treatment options for massive and submissive pulmonary emboli
- Diagnose and treat commonly encountered electrolyte abnormalities
- Describe best practices for end-of-life care in the ICU
Programme Structure
The program focuses on:
- Mechanical ventilation and patient-ventilator interactions
- Non-invasive ventilation and high-flow nasal cannula
- Arrhythmias
- Nutrition in the ICU
- Point-of-care ultrasound utilization in the ICU
- Advancements in post-resuscitation care
- End-of-life care in the ICU
- Shock and vasopressors
- Sedation and delirium
- Sleep in the ICU
- Pulmonary embolism
- Palliative care in the ICU
- Post-intensive care syndrome
- Refractory hypoxemia and ARDS
- ECMO
- Neurocritical care
- Ventilator troubleshooting
- Infectious disease emergencies and updates in antimicrobial selection
- Toxidromes
- Oncologic emergencies
- Time-limited trials in the ICU
- Humanizing the ICU
- Severe acid-base and electrolyte disturbances
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 3 days
Start dates & application deadlines
- StartingApplication deadline not specified.
Language
English
Delivered
Online
Disciplines
Health Administration View 62 other Short Courses in Health Administration in United StatesAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
All healthcare professionals who are not trained as intensivists, but whose clinical duties involve the care of critically ill patients including:
- Emergency Medicine Physicians
- Hospitalists and Nocturnists at community hospitals
- Family Practitioners
- Critical Care Physicians
- Cardiologists
- Obstetricians-Gynecologists
- Surgeons
- Anesthesiologists
- Physician Assistants
- Nurse Practitioners
- Nurses
- Pharmacists
- Health care professionals who are commonly involved in the care of critically ill patients in intensive care settings
Tuition Fee
Funding
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