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Critical Care 1/2

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Overview:
This program covers critical care medicine, also known as intensive care. Viewers will learn about some of the common issues, treatments and complications related to intensive care. The second part of the program looks at pancreatitis, a condition that causes inflammation of the pancreas, which can rapidly become a serious condition.

Part one of this two-part program addresses the following topics:

  • What is critical care?
  • Intensivists
  • Surgical intensive care
  • Trach tubes
  • Respirators/ventilators
  • ECMO (extra corporeal membrane oxygenation)
  • Kidney dialysis
  • Digestion support
  • Liver dialysis
  • What to ask when someone is in intensive care
  • Estimating prognosis
  • Lowering infection risk
  • Sepsis

Guest:
Dr. Steven Johnson, chief of surgical critical care at the University of Maryland Medical Center, including the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center. Dr. Johnson is also a professor of surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

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