Description

General Objective

Recognize the techniques and procedures for the evaluation, management and transfer of critical patients from high complexity units, according to the pathophysiological and administrative principles of the current health protocols.
and administrative principles of current sanitary protocols.

Addressed to:

University nurses and final year students and other health professionals may apply (the latter subject to the approval of the academic committee).

Contents

 


 

Module I: GENERALITIES AND RESUSCITATION
Admission and discharge in intensive care
Intensive Care Prognostic Systems
Patient Transport
Fluid Replacement: colloids vs. crystalloids
Use of Blood and Hemicomponents
VAD in Septic Shock
Evaluation of preload in critically ill patients
Modulus Evaluation

Module II: INVASIVE PROCEDURES AND CRITICAL SURGICAL PATIENTS
Cardiac output measurement
Pleurostomies and pleural drains
Peripherally inserted central vascular accesses
Peripheral vascular accesses
Central vascular accesses
Acute mesenteric ischemia
Pressure Injuries
Complications in obstetrics
Intra-abdominal hypertension
Module Evaluation

Module III ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY IN ICU
General ECG concepts
Supraventricular arrhythmias
Ventricular arrhythmias
AV blocks
Electrocardiography and pacing
Acute myocardial infarction
Module Evaluation

Module IV: MECHANICAL VENTILATION
Basic concepts of MV
Pathophysiology of respiratory failure
Respiratory Failure and Initiation of Mechanical Ventilation
Noninvasive ventilation
High Flow Nosepiece
Ventilatory Modes of NIV
Traditional modes of invasive mechanical ventilation
Measurements to be performed in the ventilated patient
Ventilatory weaning strategies
Module evaluation

Module V: SEPSIS AND SHOCK
Sepsis: clinical and epidemiological aspects.
Most frequent nosocomial infections in the critically ill patient.
Multimodal monitoring of tissue perfusion.
Module Evaluation

Module VI: NEUROLOGICAL CRITICAL PATIENT AND TRAUMA
TRAUMA
Evaluation of the comatose patient
Acute cerebrovascular disease
Aneurysmal SAH
Endocranial hypertension
Multimodal monitoring
Polytraumatized
Encephalocranial trauma
Spinal trauma
Module Evaluation
Final evaluation

Additional information

Country

Ecuador

Duration

70 hrs

Certification

AST-SAVINMED

Ranking

Intensive Care

Documentation