Description

Objectives

This distance learning course aims to perform periodic assessment of sedoanalgesia.
Implement a patient-centred treatment strategy.
Perform patient assessment and optimise the ICU environment.

Addressed to:

Graduates in medicine.

Contents


Module I: Introduction

Introduction
Key concepts and general recommendations
Summary
Self-assessment

Module II: Pain control. Analgesia

Introduction
Monitoring and measurement of pain. Algorithm of action for a patient with pain.
Pain control. Analgesic drugs
General recommendations in analgesia
Summary
Self-assessment

Module III: Sedation in the critically ill patient

Introduction
General recommendations on sedation
Complications of sedation. Strategies
Sedation monitoring. Scales
Drugs in sedation
General recommendations for sedatives
Difficult, deep and shallow sedation
Summary
Self-assessment

Module IV: Neuromuscular Blockade in the Critically Ill Patient

Introduction
Indications for neuromuscular blockers
Complications with prolonged use
Monitoring the use of NMBs
Neuromuscular blocking drugs
Antagonism of neuromuscular blockade
General recommendations for the use of NMBs. Decision algorithm for neuromuscular blockade in the ICU
Summary
Self-assessment

Module V: Monitoring

Monitoring
Equipment used in monitoring, instruments used in anaesthesia and classification of patients.
Summary
Self-assessment

Module VI: General recommendations for sedoanalgesia and neuromuscular blockade in the ICU

General recommendations for sedoanalgesia and neuromuscular blockade in the ICU
Summary
Self-assessment

Additional information

Country

Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru

Duration

75 hrs

Certification

UEMC

Ranking

Drugs and pharmaceuticals

Documentation