Post-Doctoral Certificate Course In Critical Care

• Develop expertise in the complex care of all adult critically ill patients.
• Evidence-based decision-making.
• Development of desired technical expertise with emphasis on safety, self- analysis and improvement.
• Development of appropriate communication skills.
• Development of efficient interdisciplinary collaboration.
• Develop skills in the design, understanding, and performance of clinical and/or laboratory research that will result in a better understanding of mechanisms of disease, physiology, and pathology, and the completion of at least one mentored research or scholarship project under the supervisionn of the program supervisor.
• Develop expertise at organization, analysis, preparation, and presentation of data.
• Be prepared for a successful academic or clinical career, and have the opportunity to pursue her/his own development in a research, clinical scholar, or clinical educator academic track, or to develop all skills required for a career in critical care medicine.
• Use of research technology and skills In conducting clinical and experimental studies.
• Development of professional leadership and management skills.

Respiratory

• Management of airways
• Pulmonary edema
• Adult respiratory distress syndrome
• Hypercapnic respiratory failure
• Severe asthma and COPD
• Respiratory infections – community- and hospital-acquired
• Chest trauma
• Respiratory muscle disorders
• Thoracic surgery
• Management of airways
• Pulmonary edema
• Adult respiratory distress syndrome
• Hypercapnic respiratory failure
• Severe asthma and COPD
• Respiratory infections – community- and hospital-acquired
• Chest trauma
• Respiratory muscle disorders
• Thoracic surgery
• Cardiovascular
• Haemodynamic instability and shock
• Cardiac arrest
• Acute myocardial infarction
• – Unstable angina
• Cardiomyopathies
• valvular heart disease
• Myocarditis
• Cardiac tamponade
• Pulmonary embolism
• Aortic dissection
• Hypertensive crisis
• Peripheral Vascular diseases
• post-operative care

Neurology

• Coma
• Status epilepticus
• Head trauma
• Intracranial hypertension
• Cerebrovascular accidents and cerebral vasospasm
• Meningo-encepha\itis
• Acute neuromuscular disease (including myasthenia & Guillain Barre syndrome)
• Post anoxic brain damage
• Acute confusional states
• Brain

Metabolic and Nutritional

• Fluid balance
• Electrolyte balance and its disorders
• Acid-ba»e disorders
• Endocrine disorders (including diabetes mellitus, acute adrenal insufficiency, pituitary disorders, hyper- and hypothyroidism)

• Nutrition in critical illness
• Enteral and Parenteral nutrition,
• Monitoring of nutrition

Renal

• Olguria/ anuria
• Acute renal failure
• Renal replacement therapy (RRT)
• Continuous RRT

Transplant

• Peri transplant management
• Post Liver/kidney Transplant infectious, non infectious complications

Toxicology

Acute intoxications

• Drug overdose
• Serious adverse reactions to drugs
• Envenomation

Obstetric

• Preeclampsia, eclampsia
• HELLP syndrome
• Acute fatty liver of pregnancy
• Amniotic fluid embolism
• Postpartum haemorrhage  Obstetric shock Puerperal sepsis

Haematological

• Disseminated intravascular coagulation and other coagulation disorders,
• Thrombocytopenia
• Hypercoagulable states and anticoagulation
• Haemolytic syndromes
• Acute blood loss and anaemia
• Neutropenia
• Blood component therapy,Infections
• Severe infection due to aerobic and anaerobic bacteria
• Acute severe viral infection
• Fungal and parasites infections with sepsis and organ failure
• Nosocomial infection,
• Infection in the immunocopromised host
• Tropical disease,
• Antimicrobial therapy
• Post surgical infectionsGastrointestinal and hepatic disorders,
• Acute and chronic liver failure
• Prevention and treatment of acute upper G,I. bleeding
• Management of acute lower GI bleeding
• Peritonitis,
• Mesenteric vascular disease
• Perforated viscus
• Bowel obstruction
• Abdominal trauma
• Abdominal surgery — post-operative care