Cardiac Intensive Care: Beyond BASIC is a short course, usually held over 2 days, which aims to teach practical aspects of looking after cardiac surgical patients on intensive care.
- Care of post-operative cardiac patients on ICU
- Cardiac operations
- Cardiopulmonary bypass
- Echocardiography for post-op cardiac patients
- Epicardial pacemakers
- Haemodynamic assessment
- Pulmonary artery catheters
- Cardiac tamponade
- Cardiac arrest in post-operative cardiac patients
- Veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
- Intra-aortic balloon pumps