Course Description
The FCCS is a two-day course designed to prepare non-intensivists to manage critically ill and injured patients for the first 24 hours until transfer or appropriate critical care consultation can be secured.
Participants will benefit from a comprehensive series of integrated lectures and focused skill stations that reinforce:
- Recognition and assessment of the critically ill adult
- Airway management
- Diagnosis and management of acute respiratory failure
- Mechanical ventilation 1 & 2
- Basic trauma and burn management
- Pregnancy
- Life threatening infections
- Management of life-threatening electrolytes & metabolic disturbances
- Monitoring blood flow, oxygenation and acid base balance
- Neurologic support diagnosis and management of acute shock
- Acute coronary syndromes
- Sepsis
- Integrated brain injury
Upon completion, participants should be able to:
- Prioritize assessment needs for the critically ill patient
- Select appropriate diagnostic tests
- Identify and respond to significant changes in the unstable patient
- Identify and initiate the management of acute life-threatening conditions
- Explain the need for patient transfer and prepare the practitioners for optimally accomplishing the transfer
- Describe the diagnostic reasoning for acute clinical situations
- Discuss evidence based treatment guidelines for acute clinical situations
- Review management guidelines for treatment of system specific acute illness
Questions? Contact us at FCCS-NB@rwjbh.org.