This advanced master’s degree is an incredible opportunity to obtain, in a single course, each and every one of the competencies necessary to develop a fully up-to-date intervention in Intensive Intensive Care Medicine and Cardiovascular Care of total quality"

Intensive Care Medicine is the specialty that takes on the challenge of treating the most critically ill patients. To achieve this, it is necessary to use the latest technology, to have the most effective drugs and a well-trained team of professionals capable of making decisions based on scientific evidence, without neglecting the close and respectful support needed by the patient and their family, the efficient management of resources, the climate of safety, ethical issues and many other aspects that converge in an Intensive Care Unit.

This program aims to respond to the specialization needs of physicians working in an Intensive Care Unit, based on three fundamental pillars the constant need for physicians specializing in Intensive Care Medicine to update their knowledge, always keeping themselves in an ongoing learning process. It is important to make the most of study and specialization time. The large amount of information currently accessible to us complicates the selection of the most relevant and, therefore, the most useful and necessary content. This program addresses a selection of the most interesting topics in which new developments have taken place and provides the most current view on each of them.

In the area of Cardiovascular Care, the program is aimed at strengthening and facilitating the development of essential competencies in the management of patients with acute cardiac pathology. The type of student that will benefit from this

advanced master’s degree is one that requires specialization or needs to be brought up to date in the management of this type of patients. This mainly includes intensive care staff or anaesthetists who look after patients with heart disease, cardiologists who don’t have daily contact with acute patients,  but need to be kept up to date on how to care for them, or cardiologists interested in perfecting and deepening their knowledge on how to care for patients with critical heart disease.

A practical and useful approach for daily clinical practice. In the treatment of critically ill patients, decisions need to be made quickly and with clear criteria. In this program we intend that the topics have an immediate application in practice through protocols, decision systems and are a real help for decision making in diagnosis and treatment.

Join the medical vanguard with this advanced master’s degree in Intensive Care Medicine and Cardiovascular Care. An exceptional, high-intensity program that represents a leap towards an extraordinary level of qualification"

This advanced master’s degree in Intensive Care Medicine and Cardiovascular Care contains the most complete and updated scientific program on the market. The most important features include: 

• Clinical cases presented by experts in the different specialties
• Graphic, schematic, and practical contents, with the latest scientific and healthcare information
• Diagnostic and Therapeutic Developments in Gynecology and Assisted Reproduction
• Presentation of practical workshops on procedures, diagnosis, and treatment techniques
• Real images in high resolution and practical exercises, where the self-evaluation process can be carried out to improve learning
• Algorithm-based interactive learning system, for decision-making in the presented clinical situations
• Special emphasis on test-based medicine and research methodologies
• Theoretical lessons, questions to the expert, debate forums on controversial topics, and individual reflection assignments
• Availability of content from any device, fixed or portable, with an Internet connection

This advanced master’s degree is the best investment that you could make into your future. A process of specialization created to be compatible with your professional and personal life, which will take you to the goal in the simplest way, optimizing your time and effort"

Its teaching staff is made up of leading professionals in the sector. Practicing professionals who bring to this course o master’s degree the experience of their work, in addition to recognized specialists belonging to scientific societies of reference, an impressive list of specialists who will put their experience and professionalism at the service of this specialization.

The multimedia content, developed with the latest educational technology, will provide the professional with situated and contextual learning, i.e., a simulated environment that will provide an immersive training program designed to train in real situations.

The design of this program is centered around Problem-Based Learning, in which, the medical professional will resolve professional practice situations that may arise throughout the program. For this purpose, the physician will be assisted by an innovative interactive video system created by renowned and experienced experts in the field with extensive teaching experience. 

Designed to be fully accessible, this advanced master’s degree will become a tool for professional growth that will bring you up to date on each and every one of the most relevant developments on the international scene" 

The contents, developed entirely by the best professionals in the sector, will allow you to assimilate the lessons that they have learned through their experience, with the incomparable possibility of having real examples and therapeutic situations"

The main objective of this advanced master’s degree in Intensive Care Medicine and Cardiovascular Care is to offer you a 360º quality specialization: the most complete syllabus, first class teachers from the best hospitals and scientific centers in the world, a highly efficient methodology and a learning system chosen for its excellent results. A combination that will lead you to achieve your goals in the easiest possible way, with total compatibility with your professional and personal life.

This advanced master’s degree in Intensive Care Medicine and Cardiovascular Care will allow you to get up to speed or train in these complex areas of work, with the most innovative knowledge in a single specialization and through a high-impact pathway"

General Objectives

• Acquire the necessary knowledge to ensure optimal care of the critically ill patient This knowledge should enable us to approach the stabilization, diagnosis and treatment of patients who routinely require intensive care with a current, evidence-based it approach It will also be practical and oriented to the real problems that physicians encounter in daily practice
• Handle with ease the diagnostic arsenal available in a tertiary center for the management of critically ill cardiovascular patients
• Identify a patient in a serious or potentially serious short term situation due to cardiovascular problems
• Explain the treatment indications and the therapy options in critical cardiovascular patients
• Lead a group attending to urgent or emergency situations caused by acute cardiovascular problems and guide fellow colleagues in the treatment of critical patients

Specific Objectives

Module 1. Intensive Care Unit Management

• Improve participation in the management of an Intensive Care Unit, with a view to improving the care of critically ill patients beyond pure assistance
• Implement a patient safety program and quality models with humanization of care
• Reinforce the importance of family care, care for critically ill patients admitted anywhere in the hospital, and the ethical decisions and issues involved in end-of-life decisions

Module 2. Cardiovascular Disorders in the Patient

• Deepen in the current management of acute heart failure and cardiogenic shock 
• Examine the key points in the current postoperative period in cardiac surgery 
• Differentiate the different types of cardiovascular disorders and their current management

Module 3. Update on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (RCP) in Intensive Care Medicine 

• Deepen in the management of neurological damage after cardiopulmonary resuscitation 
• Expand knowledge about basic life support, advanced life support and post-resuscitation care

Module 4. Respiratory Management of Critically Ill Patients 

• Acquire the knowledge necessary for the management of patients requiring respiratory support, from airway management to the challenges posed by mechanical ventilation, recruitment maneuvers, alternatives to conventional mechanical ventilation (APRV, ECMO, high flow glasses, non-invasive mechanical ventilation) and prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia 
• Review the key points of weaning and extubation

Module 5. Infectious Pathology in Intensive Care Medicine 

• Review the management of the patient with severe infection, with special attention to severe sepsis and the infectious pathologies that most frequently require admission to the ICU 
• Deepen the role of procalcitonin in ICU

Module 6. Renal Management of Critically Ill Patients

• Update knowledge on extrarenal depuration techniques in ICU, with special attention to the use of citrate in continuous techniques 

Module 7. Neurological Management of the Critically Ill Patient

• Deepen in the monitoring of the neurocritical patient, as well as the management of some of the severe neurological pathologies most frequently admitted to an Intensive Care Unit
• Address sedation, analgesia and relaxation of the ICU patient, as well as delirium and polyneuropathy in critically ill patients

Module 8. Trauma in Intensive Care Medicine

• Investigate the management of the severe trauma patient, from initial assessment to fluid management, vasoactive support and coagulopathy, as well as more specific situations such as the management of cranioencephalic, thoracic and abdominal trauma

Module 9. Digestive Critical Care

• Examine the most frequent and relevant digestive pathologies admitted to the ICU (severe pancreatitis, liver failure, digestive hemorrhage, etc.)

Module 10. Nutrition and Metabolism in the Critically Ill Patient

• Address the most recent practice on the critically ill patient, with adequate nutritional support, as well as appropriate management of blood glucose and some of the endocrinometabolic pathologies that most frequently require admission and management in the Intensive Care Unit

Module 11. Organ Donation and Transplantation in Intensive Care Medicine

• Deepen in the knowledge of organ donation and transplants in which the Intensive Care Physician is involved, from the diagnosis of brain death, the evaluation of the potential organ donor, the management of donors in brain death and heart failure to the stabilization and postoperative control of recipients of cardiac, liver and lung transplants

Module 12. Other Pathologies of Interest in the Critically Ill Patient

• Deepen in the management of the pregnant woman in the ICU, the patient with suspected intoxication or the role of ultrasound in the hands of the intensivist as a diagnostic tool at the bedside
• Understand how to design and execute a research project

Module 13. Management of a Critical Patient with Heart Failure and Cardiogenic Shock

• Explain the anatomical and functional alterations present in heart failure
• Explain the echocardiographic manifestations corresponding to these pathophysiological alterations
• Correlate the metabolic alterations produced in heart failure and the influence that medical treatment has on them

Module 14. Management of Critically Ill Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS)

• Describe the pathophysiological and anatomical alterations in coronary circulation which leads to the appearance and clinical manifestation of ischemic heart disease
• Explain the recommendations collected in clinical practice guides in relation to the treatment of acute coronary syndrome
• Use the available resources in a way that guarantees continuous self-learning and periodically bringing knowledge in this area up to date
• Identify the possible complications in the context of acute coronary syndrome

Module 15. Arrhythmias and Cardiac Pacing Devices: Diagnosis and Management in the Acute Phase

• Describe the types of tachycardia and their differential diagnosis based on the electrocardiogram characteristics findings
• Identify the pharmacological and invasive treatment options and the scientific basis that supports each one
• Explain the expected and most common electrical alterations based on the patient profile and the underlying cardiac or extracardiac pathology
• Explain the types of bradyarrhythmias and their risk of progression to cardiac arrest due to asystole

Module 16. Non-Invasive Cardiac Imaging and Functional Tests

• Describe the echocardiographic planes and the structures to look out for in each one of them
• Explain the hemodynamic calculations based on echocardiographic Doppler technology and their importance in the cardiovascular critical patient
• Identify the most common expected findings in an echocardiogram in a patient in surgery or undergoing structural or coronary interventionism
• Identify acute complications in patients with acute myocardial infarction

Module 17. Procedures and Techniques in a Patient in Cardiovascular Critical Care

• Explain the indication of intubation, invasive and non-invasive mechanical ventilation in a critical cardiovascular patient
• Describe the hemodynamic and respiratory impact of each type of ventilation

Module 18. Special Situations in a Patient in Cardiovascular Critical Care 

• Discuss patient monitoring before, during and after cardiac surgery 
• Deepen in acute valvular pathology and myocarditis

Module 19. Action Guides in Acute Heart Disease

• Identify the key aspects in the treatment of myocarditis, pericarditis and pericardial effusion
• Know how balloon counterpulsation works and the indications and contraindications for its implantation
• Identify the need for drainage in a pericardial effusion

Module 20. Surgery, Anesthesia and Intensive Care in Heart Disease

• Define the possible complications and the natural evolution of the patient undergoing cardiac surgery
• Explain the echocardiographic and hemodynamic alterations present in patients with indications of emergency surgery for acute valvular disease

An advanced master’s degree that will allow you to grow in your profession, with the security of having all the support systems and flexibility that are essential to achieve the skills of a top professional"