Principles of Critical Care Medicine for Non-Intensive Care Specialists

Master the Skills You Need to Practice Modern Critical Care Medicine
Keeping pace with the rapid changes in evidence-based critical care medicine is difficult for specialty-trained intensivists; for non-intensivists, the challenge of staying up to date can be overwhelming. This cutting-edge CME course is intended to provide core clinical critical-care skills to health care providers who are not trained as intensivists but whose clinical duties involve taking care of critically ill patients.

The focus of this program will be to highlight recent important evidence-based advances in the practice of modern critical care medicine and leave the audience with tangible strategies to immediately improve their practices.

New this year are two intensive training experiences: 1) cardiology critical care and 2) humanizing critical care, both of which will be offered alongside the ventilator troubleshooting module, which remains a staple of the curriculum.


Master the Skills You Need to Practice Modern Critical Care Medicine
Keeping pace with the rapid changes in evidence-based critical care medicine is difficult for specialty-trained intensivists; for non-intensivists, the challenge of staying up to date can be overwhelming. This cutting-edge CME course is intended to provide core clinical critical-care skills to health care providers who are not trained as intensivists but whose clinical duties involve taking care of critically ill patients.

The focus of this program will be to highlight recent important evidence-based advances in the practice of modern critical care medicine and leave the audience with tangible strategies to immediately improve their practices.

New this year are two intensive training experiences: 1) cardiology critical care and 2) humanizing critical care, both of which will be offered alongside the ventilator troubleshooting module, which remains a staple of the curriculum.

A Practical, Comprehensive Update for Busy Clinicians
This program delivers comprehensive updates to improve evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of critically ill patients. Highlights include:
- Principles of mechanical ventilation including ventilator troubleshooting and ventilator liberation
- Updates in the diagnosis and management of cardiogenic shock including best practices for mechanical circulatory support
- Best practices in use of non-invasive ventilation and high-flow nasal cannula
- Updates in management of ARDS including identification of which patients need VV ECMO and when to transfer
- Tangible evidence-based strategies for managing pain, agitation and sedation to minimize harm
- Pearls and pitfalls of using artificial intelligence in the ICU
- Management of submassive and massive PE
- Using POCUS to assess volume responsiveness
- Updates in oncologic, obstetric, neurologic, and infectious disease emergencies
- Physiology of shock and best practices for IV and oral vasopressor use
- Strategies for incorporating palliative care in your ICU

Speakers: Margaret 'Molly' Hayes, MD, ATSF, Morgan I. Soffler, MD, I. Mary Eche, PharmD, BCCCP, FCCM, Dhruv S. Kazi, MD, MSc, MS