Fundamental Critical Care Support

This is a 2-day course of lectures and skill stations by the Society of Critical Care Medicine and is endorsed by the Leapfrog Organization as recommended training for first care, non-intensivist providers to care for critically ill and injured patients.

The instructor curriculum will be offered for those qualified participants who wish to become instructors and host future courses at their home institution.

FEATURED LECTURES (September 25):

• Recognition and Assessment of the Seriously Ill Patient
• Airway Management
• Cardiopulmonary/Cerebral Resuscitation
• Diagnosis and Management of Acute Respiratory Failure
• Mechanical Ventilation I
• Mechanical Ventilation II
• Monitoring Oxygen Balance and Acid-Base Status
• Diagnosis and Management of Shock
• Neurologic Support
• Basic Trauma and Burn Support
• Acute Coronary Syndromes​​
• Life-Threatening Infections: Diagnosis and Antimicrobial Therapy Selection
• Management of Life-Threatening Electrolyte and Metabolic Disturbances
• Special Considerations
• Critical Care in Pregnancy
• Ethics in Critical Care Medicine
• Critical Care in Infants and Children: The Basics

FEATURED SKILL STATIONS (September 29 and October 6 - half of participants on each day):

• Mechanical Ventilation I
• Mechanical Ventilation II
• Noninvasive Positive Pressure Ventilation
• Integrated Sepsis Scenario
• Integrated Airway Management, Trauma, Hemorrhagic Shock
• Integrated Hypovolemic Shock, Traumatic Brain Injury