Patient Care
Mechanical ventilation indications, techniques and complications
- Didactic lectures
- Lung recruitment and derecruitment in ARDS
- Nitric oxide in the cardiac surgical patient
- Physiological determinants of patient-venilator interactions
- Ventilator modes
- Journal club conferences: Multiple conferences
- Bedside teaching
- Textbooks
Assessment and evaluation of pulmonary function
- Bedside teaching
- Didactic lectures
- Respiratory mechanics
- Topics in gas exchange
- Pulmonary elective
Basic and advanced cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- Fellows must be certified in ACLS prior to completion of their training. DHMC education department provides training program.
- ATLS certification is advised.
Pharmacologic and mechanical support of circulation
- Bedside teaching
- Didactic lectures
- Surgical critical care
- Hypertensive emergencies
- Critical care obstetrics
- Critical care of the postoperative cardiac surgical patient
- Trauma
- Perioperative Issues
- Journal club conferences: multiple conferences
Evaluation and management of central nervous system dysfunction, including closed head injury and intracranial pressure monitoring
- Bedside teaching
- Didactic lectures
- Subarachnoid hemorrhage
- BIS monitoring in critical care
- Spinal cord Injury
- Pain/sedation & neuromuscular blockade
Recognition and treatment of hepatic and renal dysfunction
- Bedside teaching
- Didactic lectures
- Heatstroke - diagnosis and treatment
- Renal replacement therapies
- Electrolyte disorders
- Textbooks
Diagnosis and treatment of sepsis
- Didactic lectures: Multiple lectures
- Randomized trials of anticoagulation factors for sepsis
- Update on gram positive infection
- Quixotic sepsis
- ARDS - long-term outcome
- Peritonitis
- Glucose control and insulin therapy on critical illness
- Sepsis/resuscitation practice guidelines
- Bedside teaching
- Case conferences: multiple
- Journal club conferences: multiple
Fluid resuscitation and management of massive blood loss, management of hemostatic defects
- Didactic lectures
- Red blood cell transfusion practices
- Treatment of platelet disorders
- Massive transfusion
- Bedside teaching
Monitoring and assessment of metabolism and nutrition
- Ongoing bedside teaching
- Nutrition elective
- Textbooks
Psychiatric effects of critical illness
- Didactic lectures
- Ongoing patient care
- Palliative care elective
