Short Courses for Medical Doctors

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

This session introduces critical care medicine, provides a structured approach to clinical management and introduces some commonly used terminology.

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 will describe the surface anatomy of the vertebral column. This includes an investigation of the spinal regions and a section on how to identify the level of the various vertebrae.

The session outlines how the anatomical landmarks necessary to perform either cricothyrotomy or tracheostomy can be correctly identified. The differences between the two techniques are highlighted.

This session is designed to help you gain a better understanding of surface anatomy relevant to everyday anaesthetic procedures such as central venous access and brachial plexus blockade.