2021 Curriculum learning syllabus: stage 3
Published: 24/02/2021
Intensive Care
Stage learning outcomes
- Maintains the capabilities achieved at stage 2
- Provides safe and effective care for critically ill patients with specialist help and guidance
Key capabilities A to G
A | Recognises the limitations of intensive care and explains appropriate admission criteria |
B | Can safely plan and conduct the transfer from, and return to, the intensive care unit for patients requiring multi-organ support |
C | Recognises and manages the surgical patient who would benefit from pre and/or post-operative critical care |
D | Provides safe anaesthetic care for the critically ill patient who requires a procedure or investigation outside of the intensive care environment |
E | Recognises and manages the patient with sepsis and employs local infection control policies |
F | Explains the physiological and pharmacological requirements for the clinical management of the patient for organ donation |
G | Supports clinical staff outside the ICU to enable the early detection of the deteriorating patient |
Examples of evidence
Experience & logbook:
- experience from theatre and on call work in intensive care.
Supervised Learning Events (SLEs) can be used to demonstrate:
- initial assessment, stabilisation and management of the critically ill patient including examples from obstetrics, multiple trauma, major surgical haemorrhage
- anaesthesia for ICU patients requiring surgical intervention such as surgical tracheostomy, laparotomy, trauma surgery
- emergency surgery in a critically ill patient requiring organ support
- management of patient for organ donation
- paediatric resuscitation and stabilisation
- transfer of critically ill patient to remote sites such as MRI scanner, catheter laboratory
- discussion with relatives following resuscitation.
Personal Activities and Personal Reflections may include:
- completion of resuscitation courses
- simulation training
- attendance at scientific meetings with focus on intensive care medicine
- attendance at ICU follow up clinic.
Cross links with other domains and capabilities
- Professional Behaviours and Communication
- General Anaesthesia
- Resuscitation and Transfer