Medical Knowledge
Airway maintenance and management
- Didactic lectures
- Devices for single lung ventilation
- Topics in advance airway management
- Emergency airway mangement
- ACLS
- Bedside procedural teaching
- Anesthesiology Instruction
- Anesthesiology rotation
- Anesthesiology airway course
- Procedure documentation
Devices which supply supplemental oxygen including use of reservoir masks and continuous positive airway pressure masks, humidifiers, nebulizers, and incentive spirometry
- Bedside teaching
- Journal club conferences: Multiple conferences
Indications of and techniques for emergency and therapeutic treatment of conditions requiring thoracentesis and/or tube thoracotomy
- Bedside teaching
- ATLS (recommended)
- Procedure documentation
- Textbooks, ongoing literature review
Emergency and therapeutic fiber optic laryngotracheobronchoscopy
- Bedside teaching
- Pulmonary elective
Maintenance of circulation, arterial puncture, blood sampling, insertion of central venous, arterial and pulmonary artery balloon flotation catheters
- Didactic lectures
- Appropriate Use of Pulmonary Artery Catheters
- Central Venous Catheter Infections
- Online modules (Pulmonary artery education project, link found on http://an.hitchcock.org/icu/educationovervie.html)
Contraindications, complications, limitation of, and procedures for pericardiocentesis, transvenous pacemaker insertion, peritoneal dialysis, peritoneal lavage, insertion of chest tubes, percutaneous needle aspiration
- Bedside teaching
- Procedure tracking
Interpretation of antibiotic levels and sensitivities
- Bedside teaching
- Textbooks
Bioengineering and monitoring, amplifiers and recorders
- Didactic lectures
- Monitoring Physics
Interpretation of laboratory results
- Bedside teaching
Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE)
- TEE conference
- Echocardiography elective
