Objectives

General

By the rotation ending, the resident who rotates in Intensive Care Unit must be able to:

• Make a comprehensive management of patient in critical condition.
• Acquire training in performing necessary procedures in critically ill patient.

Specific

• To be able to make a comprehensive evaluation of the patient to define priorities in diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, being responsible for coordinate other consulted specialties.
• To be able to define criteria for admission and discharge of patients to an ICU.
• To understand ethical aspects of patient’s management in critical condition and the relationship with their relatives.
• To be able to recognize benefits and limitations of invasive and non-invasive monitoring of critically ill patients.
• To be able to perform procedures such as central venous catheters, pulmonary arterial catheter (Swan-Ganz),peripheral arterial catheter and urgent endotracheal intubation.
• To be able to handle mechanical ventilation.