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 provides an overview of coronary circulation.

In this session you will learn about the conducting system of the heart, including its association with contraction of the heart chambers, electrocardiogram (ECG) trace and associated arrhythmias.

This session describes the four sets of great vessels originating or terminating in the heart, along with their major branches and tributaries in the thorax, abdomen and limbs.