Australia Permanent Healthcare and Medical Courses

This session describes the role and implementation of critical care outreach services, as well as other relevant issues.

This session defines the mortality rate for patients admitted to ICUs in the UK and discusses important aspects of severity of illness scoring systems that are applied to this population. This session also looks at the longer-term non-mortality outcomes e

This session provides an overview of the pathophysiological processes that underpin normal immune response to infection. It then outlines how these contribute to the development of sepsis.

This session describes how to assess a patient with suspected sepsis and recognize the differential diagnoses in suspected sepsis both on admission to hospital and in hospital.

This session describes the initial resuscitation for the patient with sepsis and septic shock. It focuses on the resuscitation and initial cardiovascular management of sepsis.

This session considers the transport options available to critical care teams for the secondary and tertiary transfer of critically-ill patients.

This session looks at the specialist equipment and monitoring used to help facilitate the safe transfer of critically ill patients.

This session provides an overview of the logistics for the safe transfer of critically-ill patients.

This session covers the primary survey and initial resuscitation of the patient with multiple injuries.

This session describes the secondary survey of a patient with multiple injuries.