Description

General Objective

To acquire the fundamental knowledge, with theoretical bases, for the application of skills and abilities in the integral management of critical patients in an intensive care unit.

Addressed to:

University nurses and final year students and other health professionals may apply (the latter subject to the approval of the academic committee).

Content

Module I: GENERAL
Risks and Opportunities in the ICU
Admission and Discharge in Intensive Care
Intensive Care Prognostic Systems
Chronic Critical Care Patients
Organization of Critical Care Units in Chile
Patient Transport

Module II: BLS
Introduction
Background
Adult Airway Obstruction
Airway Obstruction in Infants
Approach to Stroke Care
ACS, Evaluation, Management and Treatment
VF/PVT
Adult Basic CPR
Basic infant and child CPR
Use of AEDs
Law 21156
Use of AED

Module III: REANIMATION
Fluid Replacement: colloids vs. crystalloids
Use of Blood and Hemicomponents
Intoxications
VAD in Septic Shock
Evaluation of preload in critical patients

Module IV: INVASIVE PROCEDURES
Cardiac Output Monitoring
Pleurostomies and Pleural Drains
Fibrobronchoscopy in the Critically Ill Patient
Peripheral Venous and Arterial Vascular Accesses
Central Vascular Accesses
Peripherally Inserted Central Vascular Accesses (PICC)

Module V: CRITICAL SURGICAL PATIENTS
Severe acute pancreatitis
Acute mesenteric ischemia
Pressure Injuries
Complications in Obstetrics
Intra-abdominal hypertension and compartment syndrome of the abdomen.

Module VI: ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY IN ICU
General ECG Concepts
Supraventricular Arrhythmias
Ventricular Arrhythmias
AV blocks
Electrocardiography and pacing
Acute Myocardial Infarction

Module VII: MECHANICAL VENTILATION
Basic concepts of Mechanical Ventilation
Respiratory Physiology
Pathophysiology of Respiratory Failure
Non Invasive Ventilation
High Flow Nosepiece
Ventilatory Modes of Mechanical Ventilation
Traditional Modes of Mechanical Ventilation
Measurements to be performed in the ventilated patient
Extracorporeal Cardiorespiratory Support
Ventilatory weaning strategies
Mechanical Ventilation and COVID-19

Module VIII: SEPSIS AND SHOCK
Sepsis: clinical and epidemiological aspects
Most frequent nosocomial infections in the critically ill patient.
Multimodal monitoring of tissue perfusion
Coadjuvant therapies in septic shock
Candidiasis in ICU
Antibiotics in ICU

Module IX: CANCER, TRANSPLANT AND IMMUNOSUPPRESSED PATIENTS
Liver Transplantation
Renal Transplant
Cancer patient in ICU
Critical patient and HIV infection

Module X: NEUROLOGICAL CRITICAL PATIENTS
Evaluation of the comatose patient
Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy
Acute cerebrovascular disease
Aneurismal subarachnoid hemorrhage
Endocranial hypertension
Multimodal monitoring
Seizures and status epilepticus in critically ill patients
Decompressive craniectomy

Module XI: TRAUMA
Polytraumatized
Encephalocranial Trauma
Spinal Trauma
Abdominal Trauma
Major Burn Injury

Module XII: SYSTEM FAILURE
Gastrointestinal bleeding
Acute liver failure
Disseminated intravascular coagulopathy
Acute renal failure
Hydroelectrolytic alterations in the critically ill patient.
Generalities and Concepts of acute renal support therapies

Module XIII: NUTRITION AND METABOLISM
Metabolic substrate requirements
Tube feeding
Parenteral Nutrition

Module XIV: ICU HUMANIZATION
Intervention of the family in improving the quality of care of the ICU patient.
Limitation of therapeutic effort, palliative care in the critical care unit setting.
Advance directives: ethical and legal aspects
End-of-life care

Module XV: DEGLUTION DISORDER
Role of the Speech Therapist in Critical Patient Units
Swallowing approach in the critically ill patient. Physiology and Physiopathology. Swallowing
Approach to Swallowing in the Critically Ill Patient: Clinical and Instrumental Evaluation.
Approach to Communication in the Critically Ill Patient.
Approach to Swallowing in the Critically Ill Patient.

Module XVI: ACLS
ACLS
Collapse Rhythms 1
Collapse Rhythms 2

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