SURGICAL CRITICAL CARE LECTURE SERIES

The following is a collection of lectures addressing both basic and advanced topics in Surgical Critical Care. For those who are new to the intensive care unit, we would recommend that you review the lectures in the order listed as the concepts presented are based on the preceeding lectures.

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Lecture Title

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Critical Care: An Overview

Hemodynamic Monitoring Principles: Dynamic Response Artifacts

Hemodynamic Monitoring I: Basic Hemodynamic Calculations

Hemodynamic Monitoring II: Continuous Cardiac Output

Oxygen Transport Calculations

Vasoactive Medications

 

Optimizing Preload, Contractility, and Afterload

 
Pulmonary Physiology
 
Pulmonary Pathophysiology / ARDS
 
Diagnosis of Shock States
   
Acute Renal Failure
   

Airway Management

   

Modes of Ventilatory Support

 

Vascular Access / Pulmonary Artery Catheterization

   

Multiple System Organ Failure

   

Fluid Resuscitation: Crystalloid vs. Colloid

Abdominal Compartment Syndrome: What Everyone Needs to Know

 

The Four Compartment Syndromes

Abdominal Catastrophes in the ICU

Endocrine Response to Injury

Surgical Nutrition

 

Antibiotic Therapy

 

Ethics and End-of-Life Issues

   

Principles of Critical Care Pharmacology

Neurotrauma

 

Malignant Hyperthermia