What you'll learn

  • Review the basic principles of mechanical ventilation and describe indications for non-invasive and invasive ventilation

  • Describe evidenced based approach to massive transfusion in the ICU

  • Review the evidence-based management of hypoxic failure, including use of high flow nasal cannula, lung protective ventilation, PEEP optimization, proning, and ECMO

  • Categorize different types of shock, describe the pathophysiologic mechanism behind each and formulate appropriate treatment strategies

  • See the course registration page for additional learning objectives

Course description

This is an accredited, livestreamed course offered by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. This course is targeted to all healthcare professionals who are not trained as intensivists, but whose clinical duties involve the care of critically ill patients.

 This is an accredited, livestreamed course offered by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. This course is targeted to all healthcare professionals who are not trained as intensivists, but whose clinical duties involve the care of critically ill patients.

This is an accredited, livestreamed course offered by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. This course is targeted to all healthcare professionals who are not trained as intensivists, but whose clinical duties involve the care of critically ill patients. 

 

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 course 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. Hot-off-the-press emerging topics will also be addressed, arming you with the latest information.

 

Select the Take Course button to view additional information on the course registration page.

Contact ceprograms@hms.harvard.edu with questions.

*Register before August 4 to receive the discounted price.This is an accredited, livestreamed course offered by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. This course is targeted to all healthcare professionals who are not trained as intensivists, but whose clinical duties involve the care of critically ill patients.This is an accredited, livestreamed course offered by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. This course is targeted to all healthcare professionals who are not trained as intensivists, but whose clinical duties involve the care of critically ill patients.

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