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ERASMUS - Critical Care

Class at Third Faculty of Medicine |
CERA5P0089

Syllabus

Themes of conferences :

? Emergency medical system ? organization, specific features, case reports

? Transplantology

? Anaesthesia of animals , anaesthesia and crime.

? Difficult airways ? what the next ? Case reports

? Evidence based medicine in intensive care. Case reports

Annotation

Topics for semminars:

1. Introduction to intensive care. ABCDE approach to acutely deteriorating patients. Crisis recource management (CRM), communication and teamwork in a crisis. Early warning systems and indication of admission to critical care - basic ethical considerations.

2. Respiratory failure: Etiology, diagnostic approach, oxygen therapy, invasive and non-invasive ventilation, ECMO. Case report.

3. Shock: definition, practical approach to diagnosis of shock. Case report. Monitoring of circulation. Pharmacotherapy of shock. Manipulation of intravascular volume.

4. Sepsis and septic shock. 3 pillars of treatment, qSOFA. Organ dysfunctions, incl. coagulopathy. Case report.

5. Neurointensive care. Physiology of brain perfusion - autoregulation of cerebral blood flow. Brain swelling and oedema, secondary brain injury. ICP monitoring antd treatment of intracranial hypertension. Traumatic and non-traumatic intracranial catastrophes incl. differencial diagnosis of unconsciousness.