Paediatrics and Child Health - General Paediatric Critical Care

Overview
This 5-day module will be delivered by a skilled faculty of national and international experts. Content is matched to UK and global PICM curricula, aiming to provide much of the knowledge and understanding required to undertake the EPIC DIPLOMA (European Paediatric/Neonatal Intensive Care; ESPNIC - European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care).

Who is this for?
Overall, these modules are appropriate for multi-professional candidates with clinical roles in acute paediatrics. The general module will provide an excellent foundation for candidates entering paediatric critical care training (e.g. RCPCH GRID)
or looking to work within paediatric HDU (e.g. via the RCPCH SPIN route).

Topics covered

• Organisation of UK Paediatric Critical Care (PCC) services including quality, benchmarking and service improvement.
• Physiological basis for critical illness.
• Advanced pharmacology: drug choices, indications and side effects.
• Organ support on the paediatric critical care unit: the physiological need and physics of therapy.
• Right line, right place, right time.
• Planning care for children with complex multisystem disease.
• Human factors in critical care environments and crew resource management.
• Current ‘Hot Topics’ in evidence-based PCC.
• End of life care

You must attend all dates to complete this course.