Critical Care Teaching
  • Welcome
  • Week 1: Induction
    • NUH Critical Care
    • UHL Critical Care
  • Airway and breathing
    • Week 2: Airway and oxygenation
    • Week 3: Ventilation
    • Week 4: Weaning and rehabilitation
    • Week 5: Challenging scenarios in ventilation
  • Cardiac disease and physiology
    • Week 6: Cardiovascular manipulation
    • Week 7: Cardiac arrest and post-arrest management
    • Week 8: Cardiology on intensive care
    • Week 9: Renal replacement therapy
  • Neurointensive care
    • Week 10: Head injuries
    • Week 11: Confusion, delirium, and strokes
    • Week 12: Seizures and encephalitis
    • Week 13: Brain stem death, devastating brain injuries, and organ donation
  • Everything else
    • Week 14: Fluids and nutrition
    • Week 15: Surgical principles on intensive care
    • Week 16: Marginal gains and critical care
    • Week 17: Everything sepsis
  • Surgical specialities month
    • Week 18: Upper GI and thoracic surgery
    • Week 19: Major trauma and burns
    • Week 20: Massive intra-abdominal surgery
    • Week 21: Maternity and obstetrics
  • Medical Specialities Month
    • Week 22: Haematology and oncology
    • Week 23: Respiratory medicine
    • Week 24: Microbiology
    • Week 25: End of life care on intensive care
  • Wrapping up
    • Week 26: Reflect, and pay it forward
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Week 15: Surgical principles on intensive care

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Topics to consider

  • Emergency vs elective surgical admissions

  • Enhanced recovery and the goal of critical care

  • What to do about medications in the perioperative period - Diabetic agents? Steroids? Anti-epileptics? Analgesia? Cardiac medications?

  • Drains - what are they, were do they go, and what should you do if they fall out?

  • Troubleshooting the surgical patient: How do you tell if they've leaked?

Key resources

Perioperative medicine

  • and (BJAEd)

  • ERAS in: , , and (BJAEd)

Analgesia

  • (IBCC)

  • Analgesia in ICU - and (BJAEd)

  • (SAVEd)

High risk patients and readmissions

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Perioperative medicine
the MDT
GI surgery
orthopaedics
obstetrics
Analgesia for the critically ill patient
part 1
part 2
An introduction to analgesia
Risk factors for admission
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