Harvard 12th Annual Principles Of Critical Care Medicine For Non-Intensive Care Specialists 2024 (Videos)

Foundations of Modern Critical Care Medicine

• Core clinical skills for managing critically ill patients
• Recent evidence-based advances in modern critical care medicine
• Practical strategies for non-intensive care specialists
• Rapid evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of unstable patients
• Critical care reasoning across emergency, inpatient, and procedural settings
• Team-based care for complex ICU and high-acuity patients
• Applying updated practice recommendations to daily patient care

Mechanical Ventilation and Respiratory Support

• Basic principles of mechanical ventilation
• Indications for non-invasive and invasive ventilation
• Ventilator troubleshooting and practical bedside problem-solving
• Ventilator liberation and readiness for extubation
• Best practices in non-invasive ventilation
• High-flow nasal cannula use in acute respiratory failure
• Clinical strategies for safer respiratory support

Hypoxic Respiratory Failure, Proning and ECMO

• Evidence-based management of hypoxic respiratory failure
• Lung-protective ventilation strategies
• PEEP optimization and oxygenation improvement
• Proning in severe hypoxic respiratory failure
• Identifying patients who may require VV ECMO
• Escalation of respiratory support in critically ill patients
• Clinical reasoning for advanced respiratory failure management

Sepsis, Infection and Antimicrobial Decision-Making

• Evidence-based treatment of sepsis
• Diagnosis and management of common infections in the ICU
• Infectious disease emergencies in critically ill patients
• Approach to antimicrobial selection and escalation
• Recognition of sepsis physiology and organ dysfunction
• Resuscitation priorities in infection-related critical illness
• Practical infection management in high-acuity settings

Shock, Vasopressors and POCUS

• Categorizing different types of shock
• Pathophysiologic mechanisms behind shock states
• Formulating appropriate treatment strategies for shock
• Best practices for IV and oral vasopressor use
• POCUS in the diagnosis of shock
• POCUS assessment of volume status
• Integrating bedside ultrasound into critical care decision-making

Pulmonary Embolism and Anticoagulant Reversal

• Management of submassive pulmonary embolism
• Management of massive pulmonary embolism
• Treatment options for high-risk pulmonary emboli
• Risk stratification and escalation of care
• Anticoagulant reversal strategies
• Balancing thrombosis and bleeding risk in critical illness
• Practical emergency decision-making in PE and anticoagulation complications

Sedation, Agitation and ICU Safety

• Contemporary approaches to sedation in the ICU
• Tangible strategies for managing sedation to minimize harm
• Best practices for managing agitation in critically ill patients
• Balancing comfort, safety, delirium prevention, and ventilator synchrony
• Recognizing medication-related complications
• Improving patient safety during high-acuity care
• Practical bedside strategies for complex ICU behavior and sedation issues

Cardiac Emergencies and Critical Care Cardiology

• Assessment of cardiac emergencies in critically ill patients
• Heart failure in high-acuity and ICU settings
• Unstable arrhythmias and urgent management principles
• Critical care approaches for patients with cardiovascular instability
• Integration of hemodynamics, POCUS, and clinical exam
• Management priorities for critically ill cardiac patients
• Practical decision-making for clinicians caring for acute cardiac deterioration

Oncologic, Toxicology and Special ICU Emergencies

• Updates in oncologic emergencies
• Recognition and treatment of toxicology emergencies
• Critical care considerations in patients with cancer
• Approach to poisoning and medication toxicity
• Managing rapidly evolving high-risk clinical presentations
• Interdisciplinary coordination in special critical care emergencies
• Practical emergency strategies for non-intensive care specialists

Electrolyte Disorders and ICU Medical Problems

• Diagnosis of commonly encountered electrolyte abnormalities
• Treatment strategies for critical electrolyte derangements
• Clinical prioritization in unstable patients
• Laboratory interpretation in high-acuity care
• Medication and fluid considerations in electrolyte management
• Preventing complications from rapid correction or undertreatment
• Practical approach to common metabolic problems in the ICU

Post-Intensive Care Syndrome and End-of-Life Care

• Recognition of post-intensive care syndrome
• Best practices for post-ICU recovery and management
• Communication with patients and families after critical illness
• Functional, cognitive, and psychological complications of ICU care
• Best practices for end-of-life care in the ICU
• Goals-of-care conversations and patient-centered decision-making
• Improving compassion, communication, and continuity in critical care practice

This course is best suited for emergency medicine physicians, hospitalists, family practitioners, critical care physicians, cardiologists, OB/GYN physicians, surgeons, anesthesiologists, NPs, PAs, nurses, pharmacists, and clinicians involved in the care of critically ill patients.

Topics include mechanical ventilation, ventilator troubleshooting, ventilator liberation, non-invasive ventilation, high-flow nasal cannula, VV ECMO, sedation, agitation, sepsis, shock, vasopressors, POCUS, pulmonary embolism, anticoagulant reversal, toxicology emergencies, oncologic emergencies, infections, cardiac emergencies, electrolyte disorders, post-intensive care syndrome, and end-of-life care.

Yes. The course is specifically designed for clinicians who are not specialty-trained intensivists but whose clinical duties involve caring for critically ill patients.

Yes. The course reviews principles of mechanical ventilation, non-invasive ventilation, high-flow nasal cannula, ventilator troubleshooting, ventilator liberation, lung-protective ventilation, PEEP optimization, proning, and ECMO concepts.

Yes. This product is provided as recorded video access so you can review the material at your own pace.

No. CME credits and certificates are not included with this course package.

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