Introduction to Critical Care Medicine Online distance learning
Learn how to handle complex issues faced in Critical Care Units when other options on the ward have been exhausted.
- Length: 3 weeks; 4 hours per week
- Start date: anytime
- Introductory; leads to further study opportunities
Why this course
Intended learning outcomes
- 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
How to register
Registration is free
The course is hosted on an external learning platform, Futurelearn.
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