Oxygen is one of the most commonly used drugs in the hospital, especially in patients with or at risk of critical illness. This session will outline the principles of safe oxygen administration in critically ill patients.
This session provides an introduction to intensive care documentation including, clinical record, physiological and other data recording, information management and their uses.
The intensive care unit is an environment where advanced physiological monitoring is available for appropriate indications. <br><br>Monitoring should be employed to detect pathophysiological abnormalities in patients at high risk of developing them and to
This session describes the causes of cardiac arrest in the perioperative period and its treatment, particularly where this varies from standard advanced life support procedures, and when caused by anaphylaxis.
This session outlines the principles of advanced life support for cardiorespiratory arrest in adults, according to the Resuscitation Council (UK) Advanced Life Support Guidelines 2015.
This session outlines the physiological response to hypovolaemia, and the strategies used to replace fluid losses with appropriate intravenous fluids and blood products. It also compares the differences in the physiological responses to acute hypovolaemi
This session discusses which tests may be useful before surgery, including the NICE guidelines. It explains why false positives will outnumber true positives for most screening tests in most populations, even tests that are 99 % sensitive and 99 % specifi
