About BASIC

BASIC Instructor & Provider Course, October 2008, Sydney. Registration deadline 27th September.
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Please note that this course is not in any way connected to the British Association of Intermediate Care (BASICS)

Format

• Course textbook, mailed to participants prior to the course

• CD-ROM containing electronic tutorial/lectures

• Pre-course MCQ-based formative assessment

• 2-3 day course consisting of lectures, skill stations and tutorials taught by Intensive Care specialists, with an emphasis on a practical approach to management of critically ill patients

• Post-course MCQ test

Target audience

• Junior ICU doctors with little ICU experience

• Senior trainees in medicine, surgery or emergency medicine

• Senior ICU nurses

Topics

Not all topics will be covered in all courses

• airway management

• acute respiratory failure

• mechanical ventilation

  • basics

  • common modes

  • settings

  • troubleshooting

  • specific conditions

• haemodynamic monitoring

• management of shock

• severe sepsis

• interpretation of arterial blood gases

• transport of critically ill patients

• severe trauma

• neurological emergencies

• oliguria & acute renal failure

• cardiopulmonary resuscitation

• arrhythmias

• nutrition

• sedation and analgesia

• venous thromboembolic disease

• stress ulceration

• cardiovascular and respiratory physiology

• poisoning

• cardiac disease

• metabolic & electrolyte disturbances

Continued development of the BASIC course is supported by a generous grant from Dräger Medical.

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