Surgical Critical Care Trauma and Burn Management
SU 535M.23
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Description
This course has a didactic and a clinical component. The didactic component consists of daily morning lectures, teaching rounds in the SICU and in the Burn and Trauma ICU and x-ray rounds. The ICU service provides daily conferences on all aspects of critical care. There is a weekly Critical Care fellow's
presentation, a trauma conference and a thoracic surgery ICU conference. There is a weekly ICU/infectious disease conference. The clinical experience component focuses on all aspects of critical care including ventilation management and nutritional support as well as management of the severely
traumatized and burned patients. The students form an integral part of the ICU team. The student is expected to learn the basic physiologic, metabolic and immunologic abnormalities which occur in critical illness, the basic approaches to diagnosis and management of surgical critical care patients. This subinternship provides an excellent opportunity for students to enhance their knowledge of postoperative management of complex patients following trauma or postoperative physiological derangements such as respiratory failure, sepsis, renal failure, or cardiac failure/dysfunction.
Not Available for Cross Registration
Open to International Visiting Students
