12th Annual Harvard Course: Principles of Intensive Care Medicine for Non-Intensivists 2024

State-of-the-Art Continuing Medical Education Event in Intensive Care Medicine
Master the skills you need to practice modern intensive care medicine

All course content is in English. This product is shared via a Google Drive download link, so please provide your correct Gmail address when ordering. Please note that this course does not include CME points or certificate.

Keeping up with the rapid changes in evidence-based intensive care medicine is difficult for specialized intensivists; for non-intensivists, the challenge of staying current can be overwhelming. This state-of-the-art EMC (Continuing Medical Education) course aims to provide basic clinical skills in critical care to healthcare providers who are not trained as intensivists but whose clinical roles involve caring for critically ill patients. The Focus Of This Program Will Be To Highlight Recent Important Evidence-Based Advances In The Practice Of Modern Intensive Care Medicine And Leave The Audience With Tangible Strategies To Immediately Improve Their Practices. New this year is an additional optional cardiology workshop designed for those caring for critically ill cardiac patients.

A practical and comprehensive update for busy clinicians
This program offers comprehensive updates to improve the evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of critically ill patients. Highlights include:

• Principles of mechanical ventilation, including ventilator troubleshooting and ventilator release.

• Best practices in the use of noninvasive ventilation and high-flow nasal cannula.

• Identification of which patients need ECMO VV (veno-venous).

• Tangible strategies to manage sedation and minimize harm.

• Management of submassive and massive PE (Pulmonary Embolism).

• Reversal of anticoagulants.

• Best practices for managing agitation in the ICU (Intensive Care Unit).

• Updates in oncological, toxicological and infectious disease emergencies.

• Evidence-based treatment of sepsis.

• Physiology of shock and best practices for the use of IV (intravenous) and oral vasopressors.

Our mission is to provide the most up-to-date practical recommendations on a wide range of clinical problems encountered in the care of critically ill patients through an interactive, highly accessible and educationally sound platform.

Practice-transforming education by harvard medical school professors.
Our outstanding faculty, world-renowned for their clinical, research and teaching achievements, use diverse and engaging teaching methodologies that include didactic sessions, interactive case-based discussions, question and answer sessions and equipment demonstrations. These sessions will test your clinical reasoning and provide you with strategies to synthesize your knowledge and apply key concepts to your acute care practice. Our faculty comes from diverse backgrounds and includes physicians, respiratory therapists, pharmacists and speech therapists to ensure the most up-to-date and practical content is provided.

OBJECTIVES
At the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Review the basic principles of mechanical ventilation and describe the indications for noninvasive and invasive ventilation.

• Describe evidence-based approaches to the diagnosis and management of common infections in the ICU.

• Categorize the different types of shock, describe the pathophysiologic mechanism behind each and formulate appropriate treatment strategies.

• Identify evidence-based management of hypoxic failure, including use of high-flow nasal cannula, pulmonary protective ventilation, PEEP optimization, pronation, and ECMO.

• Describe the importance of POCUS (Point-of-Care Ultrasound) in the diagnosis of shock and volemic status.

• Recognize post-acute care syndrome and describe best practices for its management.

• Identify contemporary approaches to sedation in the ICU.

• Recognize and manage common toxicological emergencies.

• Evaluate cardiac emergencies such as heart failure and unstable arrhythmias.

• Describe treatment options for massive and submassive pulmonary embolisms.

• Diagnose and treat commonly encountered electrolyte disturbances.

• Describe best practices for end-of-life care in the ICU.

TO WHOM IT IS ADDRESSED

• • Emergency Physicians

  • Hospitalists and Nocturnists in community hospitals

  • Family Physicians

  • Intensivists

  • Cardiologists

  • OB/GYNs

  • Surgeons

  • Anesthesiologists

  • Medical Assistants

  • Nurse Practitioners

  • Nurses

  • Pharmacists

  • Healthcare professionals commonly involved in the care of critically ill patients in intensive care settings.