Description

General Objective

To provide nursing professionals and technicians with the tools to contribute to the training of the healthcare team in specific ventilatory therapy competencies that allow timely and effective clinical performance in intensive care units and critical areas.

Addressed to:

Health professionals and technicians: physicians, nurses, kinesiologists, paramedical technicians and/or students of these health careers. (the latter, subject to approval of admission by the academic committee).

Content

Module I: ICU OVERVIEW
Risks and Opportunities in the ICU
Admission and Discharge in Intensive Care
Intensive Care Prognostic Systems
Chronic Critical Care Patients
Organization of Critical Care Units in Chile

Module II: RESPIRATORY PHYSIOLOGY AND PHYSIOPATHOLOGY
How we breathe
Blood gases
Pulmonary Function
Gas Transport
Regulation of Respiration
Respiratory Pathophysiology.
Mechanical properties of the respiratory system.
Cardiopulmonary interaction
Acute respiratory failure
Systemic effects of mechanical ventilation.

Module III: NON-INVASIVE MECHANICAL VENTILATION
Oxygen therapy
High Flow Nasal Cannula (HFNC)
Prono Vigil
Physiological basis of NIV
Interfaces
Ventilatory Modes of NIV
Noninvasive ventilation
NIV Weaning

Module IV: INVASIVE MECHANICAL VENTILATION I
History of Mechanical Ventilation
General Characteristics of Patients Requiring Invasive Mechanical Ventilation (IMV)
Rapid Intubation Sequence
Artificial Airway
Inhalation Therapy and Humidification
Description of a Ventilator
Overview of IMV

Module V: INVASIVE MECHANICAL VENTILATION II
Ventilatory Support Modes
Initiation of Invasive Mechanical Ventilation
Treatment of the mechanically ventilated patient
Mechanical ventilation in specific situations
Monitoring during MV
Surgical and trauma patients
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)
Ventilatory support in COPD and asthma
Measurements to be performed in the ventilated patient
Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (VAPV)
Patient-ventilator asynchrony

Module VI: INVASIVE MECHANICAL VENTILATION III
Imaging of the MV patient
CV effects of MV
Complications during MV
Interruption of MV
Transport of the patient with in-hospital MV.
How to monitor the patient on MV 1
How to monitor the patient in MV 2.
Invasive Prone Mechanical Ventilation
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO)
Extracorporeal co2 removal.
MV and nitric oxide
Nursing care in ventilatory support
Kinesic care in ventilatory support.

Module VII: INVASIVE MECHANICAL VENTILATION IN PREHOSPITAL (PH) SETTINGS
Uses of IMV in PH scenarios, "a possible reality".
Initial programming of transport MV
Patient transfer in interhospital VMI
Preparation of the patient to be transferred by Aeromedical Evacuation (EVACAM)
Management of complications during the transfer of the patient on Mechanical Ventilation (MV)
Troubleshooting during the transfer of a patient on IMV

Module VIII: MECHANICAL VENTILATION AND COVID-19
NIV in Covid-19
Recommendations for weaning in patient with Covid-19
Prono Vigil in patient with covid-19
Intubation in patients with suspected or confirmed coronavirus.
Use of filters in MV Covid-19
EPP in patients with MV and coronavirus.
Clinical and epidemiologic features of Covid-19

Module IX: SEDATION AND VENTILATORY AESTATION
Sedation during ventilatory support
Neuromuscular blockade in the MV patient
Delirium
Chronic critical patient
Ventilatory weaning

Module X: DEGLUTION DISORDERS
Role of the Speech Therapist in the Critical Patient Units.
Approach to Swallowing in the Critically Ill Patient. Physiology and Physiopathology. Swallowing
Approach to Swallowing in the Critically Ill Patient: Clinical and Instrumental Evaluation.
Approach to communication in the critically ill patient.
Speech Therapy Intervention in the Critically Ill Patient: Swallowing and Communication.

Module XI: VM WORKSHOP
VMI Arming
VMI Programming
NIV Arming
VNI Programming
Driving Pressure and Autopeep calculation.
CNAF Arming

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