2021 Curriculum learning syllabus: stage 3

Published: 24/02/2021

Intensive Care

Maintains the capabilities achieved at stage 2
Provides safe and effective care for critically ill patients with specialist help and guidance

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 needs to return to theatre from the intensive care unit
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

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.