ISCCM 8th Annual Critical Care Refresher Course 2020

Day 1:

1. Hemodynamic monitoring – the basics

2. Guillian Barre Syndrome and Myasthenia Gravis

3. Extra Corporeal life support devices

4. A patient post solid organ transplant

5. My patient has GI bleed Variceal Non-variceal

6. Instruments

7. A critically ill pregnant patient

8. A polytrauma patient

9. A patient with sudden onset headache but worst of his life

10. Antimicrobial drugs

11. Thrombocytopenia and coagulopathies in ICU

12. The screen on ventilator curves and loops

13. Skin and soft tissue catastrophe time is less to treat

14. Hemodynamic monitoring – beyond basics

15. Fungal infections in ICU – new headache

16. Seizure in critically ill

Day 2:

1. Patient with tense abdomen, high pressures with or without organ failures

2. Dysnatremias in ICU am still confused

3. Newer oral anticoagulants – drugs risk and control of bleeding

4. A patient with AKI – how and when do I dialyze

5. Bitten by a venomous snake

6. Whom when and how to feed a critically ill patient Will he land up with refeeding backlash

7. Unknown substance overdose how do I manage

8. Principles of aerosol therapy in critical care

9. How do I interpret my ABG

10. Right heart failure intensivists nightmare

11. Imaging relevant to critical care

12. A potential organ donor in ICU how do I optimize

13. Hyperglycemic emergencies in critical care

14. Fluid responsiveness beyond 30mlkg

15. Does my patient really have HAPVAP If yes how do I manage

16. Oxygen therapy devices in ICU

Day 3: 

1. Plasma exchange in critical care – when and how to do

2. Bulging brain how do I control

3. Abdominal catastrophies in intensive care

4. Tropical fever in critical care

5. Acute pancreatitis identification to management

6. Antimicrobial dosing in critical care

7. What to do after cardiac arrest TTM and post cardiac arrest care

8. How to appraise a research paper

9. A patient with fever altered sensorium with or without seizures

10. Intracranial hypertension definition pathophysiology techniques to measure and interpretation

11. Ventilation induced lung injury how do I prevent

12. A patient in cardiac failure with or without poor heart

13. PEEP titration in various diseases in intensive care

14. A patient with acute confusional state in ICU

15. Brain stem death assessment and declaration

16. Drowning classification and management

Day 4: 

1. Traumatic brain injury

2. My patient continues to remain hypoxic how do I manage

3. Electrolytes disturbances other than sodium yes we do exist

4. A patient with sudden onset of slurring of speech with weakness in limbs

5. A patient with breathing difficulty with or without history of smoking and atopy

6. A patient with acute onset jaundice coagulopathy and encephalopathy

7. A patient with sudden onset pain in legs with circulatory collapse

8. A patient with extremely high blood pressures with or without organ failures

9. Morbid Obesity and Critical illness is there a reason to panic

10. Endocrine emergencies in critical care – rare but life threatening

11. Practice changing studies in critical care – I

12. A febrile patient with no neutrophils

13. Practice changing studies in critical care -II

14. A decompensated chronic liver disease patient in my ICU

15. A burns patient in ICU

16. How do I interpret my ECG

Day 5:

1. Non-invasive ventilation and Bipap settings to guidelines

2. Various methods by which I can wean my patient from ventilator

3. AKI Definition pathophysiology diagnosis and prevention

4. An unanticipated difficult airway in icu

5. Hematological emergencies in icu including HLH

6. A patient with cough fever breathlessness and infiltrates on xray

7. Life threatening hemorrhage acute coagulopathy of trauma and massive transfusion in icu

8. Ventilation beyond basics

9. Drugs II

10. Heat stroke and heat exhaustion HAPE AMS and HACE

11. OP Poisoning

12. Critical illness polyneuromyopathy Risk factors diagnosis and management