Self-Directed Critical Care Review: Adult 2018

Self-Directed Multiprofessional Critical Care Review Course (MCCRC): Adult provides a relaxed learning experience with access to over 17 different critical care content areas. Learn at your own pace from the comfort and convenience of your home or office.

• Review all lectures through interactive learning modules
• Explore sample board review questions, answers, and rationales
• Assess your knowledge through the use of pre- and posttests

Physicians, nurses, and pharmacists are eligible to receive 38 hours of continuing education credit. Maintenance of Certification credit is also available. CE/CME, MOC expires on November 30, 2021.

Topics:
I. Respiratory Disease, Mechanical Ventilation & Noninvasive Support :
1. Mechanical Ventilation I – Back to the Basics.
2. Mechanical Ventilation II – Options for Ventilation.
3. Mechanical Ventilation III – Management of Acute Respiratory Failure
4. Case Discussions
5. Community-Acquired Pneumonia – Cases You Should Know.
6. Non-Invasive Ventilation.
7. When & How to Use ECMO.
8. Life-Threatening Bronchospasm.
9. Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia.
10. Early Mobility in Critically Ill Patients.
11. Venous Thromboembolism.
12. Delirium

II. Hemodynamics & Cardiovascular Disease:
1. Congestive Heart Failure.
2. ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction
3. Cardiovascular Surgery – Complications & Mechanical Devices.
4. Non-ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction.
5. Supraventricular Arrhythmias I.
6. Supraventricular Arrhythmias II.
7. Vasopressor Therapy.
8. Pulmonary Hypertension in Critical Illness.
9. Ventricular Arrhythmias I.
10. Ventricular Arrhythmias II & Miscellaneous.
11. Practice Session.

III. Kidney, Babies, Blood & Endocrine Emergencies :
1. Management of Hypertensive Emergencies.
2. Endocrine Emergencies.
3. Electrolyte Emergencies.
4. Acute Kidney Injury – Diagnosis & Management
5. Complex Acid-Base Disorders.
6. Diagnoses You Must Not Miss.
7. Renal Replacement Therapy in the ICU.
8. Bleeding & Coagulation Disorders.
9. Complications of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Requiring Intensive Care.
10. Toxicology & Drug Overdoses.
11. Temperature, Drowning & Radiation.
12. Obstetric Emergencies

IV. Infectious Disease, Liver & Gastrointestinal:
1. Sepsis – New Definitions, Diagnosis & Management.
2. Severe Infections in the ICU.
3. Shock – Diagnosis & Management of Different Syndromes
4. Antibacterials, Antifungals, Antivirals.
5. Monitoring & Stabilization of the Trauma Patient.
6. Case Review – Sepsis.
7. Emerging Infections.
8. Acute Hepatic Failure.
9. Complications of Solid Organ Transplantation.
10. Gastrointestinal Bleeding.
11. Acute Pancreatitis.
12. Case Review

V. Brain Emergencies & Other Intracranial Problems:
1. Severe Stoke, Subarachnoid & Intracerebral Hemorrhage.
2. Sedation & Analgesia.
3. Airway Emergencies.
4. Seizures & Status Epilepticus.
5. Intracranial Hypertension.
6. Death by Neurological Criteria.
7. Ethical Challenges