Cardiovascular Critical Care: Basic Principles and Monitoring

Learning Objectives

After studying this module on Cardiovascular Critical Care: Basic Principles and Monitoring, you should be able to:

• Obtains a history and performs an accurate clinical examination
• Undertakes timely and appropriate investigations
• Describes indications for echocardiography (transthoracic / transoesophageal)
• Performs electrocardiography (ECG / EKG) and interprets the results
• Recognises and manages the patient with circulatory failure

eModule Information

Expiry date: 10/2020

COBATrICe competencies covered in this module:

Competencies

• Monitors and responds to trends in physiological variables
• Recognises and manages the patient with circulatory failure
• Uses fluids and vasoactive / inotropic drugs to support the circulation
• Demonstrates a method for measuring cardiac output and derived haemodynamic variables

Faculty Disclosures:
The authors of this module have not reported any disclosures.

Duration: 8 hours

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