Harvard 12th Annual Principles Of Critical Care Medicine For Non-Intensive Care Specialists 2024 (Videos)

Cutting-Edge Critical Care Medicine Continuing Education Event
MASTER THE SKILLS YOU NEED TO PRACTICE MODERN CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE

Keeping pace with the rapid changes in evidence-based critical care medicine is difficult for specialty-trained intensivists; for non-intensivists, the challenge of staying up to date can be overwhelming. This cutting-edge CME course is intended to provide core clinical critical-care skills to health care providers who are not trained as intensivists but whose clinical duties involve taking care of critically ill patients. The Focus Of This Program Will Be To Highlight Recent Important Evidence-Based Advances In The Practice Of Modern Critical Care Medicine And Leave The Audience With Tangible Strategies To Immediately Improve Their Practices. New this year is an optional add-on cardiology workshop designed for those who care for critically ill cardiac patients.

A PRACTICAL, COMPREHENSIVE UPDATE FOR BUSY CLINICIANS

This program delivers comprehensive updates to improve evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of critically ill patients. Highlights include:

Principles of mechanical ventilation including ventilator troubleshooting and ventilator liberation
Best practices in use of non-invasive ventilation and high-flow nasal cannula
Identification of which patients need VV ECMO
Tangible strategies for managing sedation to minimize harm
Management of submassive and massive PE
Anticoagulant reversal
Best practices for managing agitation in the ICU
Updates in oncologic, toxicology and infectious disease emergencies
Evidenced-based treatment of sepsis
Physiology of shock and best practices for IV and oral vasopressor use

Our mission is to deliver the most up-to-date practice recommendations across a broad range of clinical problems encountered in the care of critically ill patients via an interactive, highly accessible, and educationally sound platform

PRACTICE-CHANGING EDUCATION TAUGHT BY HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL FACULTY

Our outstanding faculty, world-renowned for their clinical, research and teaching achievements, use diverse and engaging teaching methodologies including 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 intensive care practice. Our faculty come from various training backgrounds and include physicians, respiratory therapists, pharmacists, and speech and language pathologists to ensure the most up-to-date and practical content is delivered.

OBJECTIVES

At the end of this course, 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
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
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