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 structure of this Advanced master’s degree has been created in order to compile each and every one of the subjects that professionals in this area ought to master, in a comprehensive but very specific syllabus. With an extensive course, structured in areas of intervention, the student will learn the different theoretical and practical approaches and techniques required for medical activity in Intensive Care Medicine and Cardiovascular Care. Learning that will translate into practical mastery of the techniques. Always with the tutoring and accompaniment of the exceptional teachers who have developed the contents.

This Advanced master’s degree is an incomparable opportunity to obtain, in a single training program, all the knowledge required in Intensive Care Medicine and Cardiovascular Care"

Module 1. Intensive Care Unit Management

1.1. Patient Safety

1.1.1. Concept
1.1.2. Evolution of Patients Safety
1.1.3. Medical Errors
1.1.4. Various Definitions
1.1.5. Safety Culture
1.1.6. Risk Management
1.1.7. Where is it?
1.1.8. Patient Safety in Intensive Care Units

1.2. Information Systems
1.3. ICU Without Walls

1.3.1. Problems: Why Did the ICU Without Walls Model Emerge?
1.3.2. Solution: Early Detection of Severity
1.3.3. ICU Without Walls Project

1.4. Humanization in the Care of Critically Ill Patients

1.4.1. Introduction HU-CI Project
1.4.2. Involvement of Family Members in the Care and Presence in Certain Procedures
1.4.3. Perceived Quality Satisfaction Surveys
1.4.4. Communication Between Professionals
1.4.5. Professional’s Needs Burnout
1.4.6. Post-ICU Syndrome Psychological Sequelae
1.4.7. Humanized Architecture

1.5. Quality and Excellence in the ICU

1.5.1. Quality Models
1.5.2. ETQM Excellence Model
1.5.3. The Quality Group in the ICU

1.6. Prognosis in ICU

1.6.1. History of Gravity Scales
1.6.2. Prognosis Scales
1.6.3. Scale Comparison
1.6.4. Unsolved Questions

1.7. The Family of the Critically Ill Patient

1.7.1. Communicating Bad News
1.7.2. Families in ICUs
1.7.3. Participation in Care

1.8. ICU Open Doors

1.8.1. Family, Family Members and Visitors
1.8.2. About Visits and their Organization
1.8.3. Why are they Organized this Way?
1.8.4. What Do Patients and Families Want?
1.8.5. Is a Change Possible?
1.8.6. Future Proposals

1.9. ICU at the End of Life

1.9.1. Ethical Principles of LLST
1.9.2. LLST and Patient Autonomy
1.9.3. Unravel the Decision-Making Process in Sports
1.9.4. Palliative Care Plan
1.9.5. Conflict Management
1.9.6. Support for Professionals
1.9.7. Decision not to Resuscitate
1.9.8. Organ Donation Considerations 
1.9.9. Rule Out Admission to ICU

Module 2. Cardiovascular Disorders in the Patient

2.1. Hemodynamic Monitoring

2.1.1. Fundamentals of Hemodynamic Monitoring
2.1.2. Current Utility of Swan-Ganz in Intensive Care Medicine
2.1.3. Minimally Invasive Monitoring
2.1.4. Non-Invasive Monitoring
2.1.5. Practical Approach to Hemodynamic Monitoring

2.2. Current Management of Acute Heart Failure and Cardiogenic Shock

2.2.1. Prehospital Management
2.2.2. Initial Management of AHF Without Cardiogenic Shock
2.2.3. Cardiogenic Shock

2.3. Role of Echocardiography in the Hemodynamic Management of the Critically Ill Patient

2.3.1. Obtaining an Echocardiogram
2.3.2. Detection of Structural Alterations
2.3.3. Overall Cardiac Assessment
2.3.4. Preload Assessment
2.3.5. Assessment of Contractility
2.3.6. Afterload Assessment
2.3.7. Echocardiogram in Severe Cardiologic and Non-Cardiologic Patients

2.4. Key Points in Today's Postoperative Cardiac Surgery 

2.4.1. Patient Reception
2.4.2. Uncomplicated Postoperative
2.4.3. Complications
2.4.4. Specific Considerations

2.5. Current Management of Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS)

2.5.1. Introduction Epidemiology
2.5.2. Concept: Definitions and Classification
2.5.3. Risk Factors Precipitating Factors
2.5.4. Clinical Presentation
2.5.5. Diagnosis ECG, Biomarkers, Non-invasive Imaging Techniques
2.5.6. Risk Stratification
2.5.7. ACS Treatment: Pharmacological Strategy, Reperfusion Strategy (Coronary Intervention, Fibrinolysis, Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery)
2.5.8. Systemic Complications of ACS
2.5.9. Cardiologic Complications of ACS
2.5.10. Mechanic Complications of ACS

2.6. Arrhythmias in ICU

2.6.1. Bradyarrhythmias
2.6.2. Tachyarrhythmias

2.7. Acute Aortic Pathology
2.8. Use of Blood Derivatives in Critically Ill Patients
2.9. New Anticoagulants
2.10. Venous Thromboembolic Disease

2.10.1. Pathophysiology
2.10.2. Deep Vein Thrombosis
2.10.3. Acute Pulmonary Embolism

2.11. Adult Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO)

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

3.1. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Algorithm

3.1.1. Basic Life Support (BLS)
3.1.2. Advanced Life Support (ALS)
3.1.3. Post-resuscitation Care (PRC)
3.1.4. CPR Training

3.2. Management of Post-resuscitation Syndrome

3.2.1. Post-cardiac Arrest Syndrome 
3.2.2. Airway and Respiration
3.2.3. Circulation
3.2.4. Disability: Measures for Neurological Recovery
3.2.5. Neurological Prognostic Assessment Protocol

3.3. Neurological Damage after Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation. Management and Prognostic Assessment

3.3.1. Pathophysiology of Brain Damage
3.3.2. Therapeutic Measures Aimed at the Control of Brain Injuries
3.3.3. Prognosis

Module 4. Respiratory Management of Critically Ill Patients

4.1. Difficult Airway in the Intensive Care Unit: Assessment and Management

4.1.1. Critical Airway
4.1.2. Evaluation and Prediction
4.1.3. Predictors of VAD in Critically Ill Patients The Macocha Score
4.1.4. Management of Critical VAD
4.1.5. Adequate Personnel-Adequate Material-Adequate Procedure
4.1.6. Extubation of the Patient in the Critical Care Unit

4.2. Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

4.2.1. Concept of ARDS
4.2.2. Mechanical Ventilation and Ventilator-Associated Injury
4.2.3. Basic Ventilation Parameters: Tidal Volume and PEEP
4.2.4. Prone Position
4.2.5. Other Ventilatory Strategies in Acute Lung Injury

4.3. Alternatives to Conventional Mechanical Ventilation in ARDS

4.3.1. Spontaneous Ventilation in Distress
4.3.2. APRV
4.3.3. High Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation (HFOV)
4.3.4. Extracorporeal Oxygenation

4.4. Recruitment Strategies Based on Increased Airway Pressure

4.4.1. Monitoring
4.4.2. Interruption
4.4.3. Indications
4.4.4. Types
4.4.5. Recruitment Maneuvers in Special Situations
4.4.6. The Prone Position as a Recruitment Maneuver
4.4.7. Effect of Recruitment Maneuvers on Patient Prognosis

4.5. Disconnection of Mechanical Ventilation

4.5.1. Identification of the Patient Ready for MV Disconnection
4.5.2. Spontaneous Ventilation Test
4.5.3. What to Do if the First Spontaneous Ventilation Test Fails?
4.5.4. Gradual Disconnection of the Respirator
4.5.5. Extubation after Tolerating a Spontaneous Ventilation Test
4.5.6. Strategies to Decrease the Reintubation Rate
4.5.7. New and Alternative Methods for Disconnection

4.6. Non-Invasive Mechanical Ventilation: Indications

4.6.1. Patient Selection
4.6.2. Contraindications
4.6.3. Evidence in the Use of NIV
4.6.4. Hypoxemic Acute Respiratory Failure (AHRF)
4.6.5. NIV Convenience
4.6.6. Use of NIV
4.6.7. Infections in Immunosuppressed Patient
4.6.8. Common NIV Scenarios
4.6.9. Postoperative Pulmonary Restrictive Syndrome
4.6.10. NIV in Case of No Tracheal Intubation
4.6.11. High-Flow Nasal Goggles

4.7. Prevention of Pneumonia Associated with Mechanical Ventilation

4.7.1. Definition
4.7.2. Clinical Impact
4.7.3. Pathophysiology
4.7.4. Prevention Measures
4.7.5. Zero Pneumonia Project

4.8. Electrical Impedance Tomography for Respiratory Monitoring

4.8.1. Operation and Interpretation of Data
4.8.2. Application Technique, Contraindications and Limitations
4.8.3. Indications and Clinical Application

Module 5. Infectious Pathology in Intensive Care Medicine

5.1. Current Management of Sepsis

5.1.1. Sepsis Definitions
5.1.2. Septic Shock
5.1.3. Epidemiology of Sepsis
5.1.4. Surviving Sepsis Campaign
5.1.5. Sepsis Code
5.1.6. Sepsis Treatment
5.1.7. Diagnosis and Treatment of the Infection

5.2. Antibiotherapy in Intensive Care Units

5.2.1. Impact of the Use of Antibiotics
5.2.2. Antibiotic Use Policy at an Individual Level
5.2.3. Quality Indicators
5.2.4. Managing Resistance
5.2.5. Zero Resistance Project

5.3. Severe Abdominal Infection in the ICU

5.3.1. Acute Abdomen and Peritonitis
5.3.2. Infectious Complications in the Abdominal Postoperative Period
5.3.3. Tertiary Peritonitis

5.4. Intravascular Infections in the ICU

5.4.1. Bacteremia
5.4.2. Catheter-Related Bacteremia
5.4.3. Long-Term Central Venous Catheter-Related Infections
5.4.4. Infections Related to Cardiac Devices: Pacemakers and Defibrillators
5.4.5. Antibiotic Treatment

5.5. Procalcitonin as a Marker of Sepsis
5.6. Key Points in the Management of Invasive Fungal Infection in the ICU

5.6.1. Filamentous Fungi
5.6.2. Invasive Aspergillosis (IA)
5.6.3. Mucormycosis
5.6.4. Other Filamentous Fungi
5.6.5. Yeast
5.6.6. Invasive Candidiasis (IC)
5.6.7. Cryptococcosis

5.7. Severe Pneumonia
5.8. Bacterial Meningitis, Viral Encephalitis and Other Encephalitis

5.8.1. Bacterial Meningitis Key Management Points
5.8.2. Viral Encephalitis and Other Encephalitides

5.9. Endocarditis

5.9.1. Classification and Definitions in Infective Endocarditis
5.9.2. Microbiological
5.9.3. Modified Duke Criteria
5.9.4. Clinical Manifestations of Infectious Endocarditis
5.9.5. Etiology of Infective Endocarditis
5.9.6. Microbiological Diagnosis
5.9.7. Echocardiographic Diagnosis
5.9.8. Pediatric Dentistry

5.10. Multiresistant Bacteria

5.10.1. The Challenge of Multidrug Resistant Microorganisms
5.10.2. Resistance of Gram-Positive Bacteria
5.10.3. Resistance of Gram- Negative Bacteria

Module 6. Renal Management of Critically Ill Patients

6.1. Key Points in the Use of Continuous Extrarenal Clearance Techniques in the ICU

6.1.1. Acute Renal Insufficiency in the ICU
6.1.2. Continuous Renal Replacement Techniques (CRRT)
6.1.3. Indications for CRRT
6.1.4. Selection of Extrarenal Depuration Modality
6.1.5. Dose
6.1.6. Anticoagulation
6.1.7. Technique and Materials

6.2. Anticoagulation with Citrate in Continuous Extrarenal Clearance Techniques

6.2.1. Indications for Citrate Anticoagulation
6.2.2. Contraindications for Citrate Anticoagulation
6.2.3. Metabolic Aspects of Regional Anticoagulation with Citrate
6.2.4. Schematic of Calcium and Cyc Complex Contents Along the Extracorporeal and Blood Circuit
6.2.5. Dialysis Liquids
6.2.6. Indicative Initial Treatments
6.2.7. Anticoagulation and Calcium Replenishment Controls
6.2.8. Acid-base Balance Control
6.2.9. Recommended Laboratory Tests for Citrate Treatment

Module 7. Neurological Management of the Critically Ill Patient

7.1. Monitoring the Neurocritical Patient

7.1.1. Intracranial Pressure Monitoring
7.1.2. Saturation of the Jugular Bulb
7.1.3. Bis and Continuous EGG
7.1.4. Transcranial Doppler
7.1.5. Role of Imaging Tests (CT and MRI)

7.2. Coma Management

7.2.1. Definition
7.2.2. Epidemiology
7.2.3. Anatomy of Awakening
7.2.4. Management of the Comatose Patient
7.2.5. Complementary

7.3. Update in the Management of Ischemic Stroke
7.4. Current Management of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage in the Intensive Care Unit

7.4.1. Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
7.4.2. Non-aneurysmal Spontaneous Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

7.5. Current Management of Intraparenchymal Hemorrhage Initial Treatment

7.5.1. Initial Treatment
7.5.2. Treatment of a Hypertensive Emergency
7.5.3. Indication for Surgery

7.6. Status Epilepticus 

7.6.1. Medical Treatment
7.6.2. Refractory Status Epilepticus 
7.6.3. Protocol Proposal

7.7. Sedation, Analgesia and Relaxation in the ICU: Current Management

7.7.1. Analgesia
7.7.2. Pain Classification
7.7.3. Sedation
7.7.4. Neuromuscular Blockade
7.7.5. Monitoring of Analgesia
7.7.6. Sedation Monitoring
7.7.7. Neuromuscular Blockade Monitoring
7.7.8. Delirium Monitoring

7.8. Mental Status Alterations in the Critically Ill Patient Delirium, Agitation and Acute Confusional Syndrome

7.8.1. Alterations of the Mental State
7.8.2. Delirium
7.8.3. Final Considerations

7.9. Intensive Care Unit-Acquired Weakness (ICU-AW)

7.9.1. Deifnition and Epidemiology of Intensive Care Unit-Acquired Weakness (ICU-AW)
7.9.2. Clinical manifestations
7.9.3. Pathophysiology
7.9.4. Microbiological
7.9.5. Risk factors
7.9.6. Clinical Outcomes and Prognosis
7.9.7. Prevention and Treatment

Module 8. Trauma in Intensive Care Medicine

8.1. Initial Trauma Care
8.2. Cranioencephalic Trauma
8.3. Fluids, Transfusion and Vasoactive Support in the Severe Trauma Patient

8.3.1. New Strategies for Trauma Resuscitation

8.3.1.1. Ensuring Adequate Tissue Perfusion
8.3.1.2. Rational Fluid Management
8.3.1.3. Use of Vasopressors
8.3.1.4. Avoidance of Trauma-Induced Coagulopathy
8.3.1.5. Proportional Transfusion of Blood Derivatives
8.3.1.6. Prohemostatic Drugs

8.4. Thoracic Trauma

8.4.1. General: Prehospital Management of Thoracic Trauma
8.4.2. General: Initial In-Hospital Management of Blunt Thoracic Trauma
8.4.3. General: Initial In-Hospital Management of Penetrating Thoracic Trauma
8.4.4. Lesions of the Thoracic Wall
8.4.5. Rib Injuries
8.4.6. Sternum and Scapula Injuries
8.4.7. Lung Injury
8.4.8. Aortic Injury
8.4.9. Cardiac Injuries
8.4.10. Other Mediastinal Lesions

8.5. Abdominal Trauma

8.5.1. General aspects
8.5.2. Hepatic Trauma
8.5.3. Splenic Trauma
8.5.4. Genitourinary Trauma
8.5.5. Pelvic Trauma
8.5.6. Gastrointestinal Trauma

8.6. Spinal Cord Injury Initial Care

8.6.1. Introduction and Epidemiology
8.6.2. Pathophysiology
8.6.3. Prehospital Management of MRT
8.6.4. Primary Assessment: Initial Evaluation and Resuscitation
8.6.5. Second Evaluation
8.6.6. Radiological Evaluation
8.6.7. Acute Management of the MRT Patient

8.7. The Critically Ill Burned Patient

Module 9. Digestive Critical Care

9.1. Current Management of Severe Pancreatitis

9.1.1. Diagnosis and Prognosis. Value of Imaging Tests
9.1.2. Pancreatitis Complications
9.1.3. Therapeutic Approach

9.2. The Cirrhotic Patient in the ICU

9.2.1. Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure Syndrome
9.2.2. Pathophysiological Bases
9.2.3. Organic Damage in the ACLF
9.2.4. Nutritional Support
9.2.5. Infections Management
9.2.6. Specific Aspects of Advanced Cirrhotic Management in the ICU

9.3. Current Management of Acute Liver Failure

9.3.1. Introduction, Definition and Aetiology
9.3.2. Microbiological
9.3.3. Extrahepatic Manifestations
9.3.4. Prognostic Severity Scales
9.3.5. Management of Acute Liver Failure

9.4. Acute Mesenteric Ischemia

9.4.1. General Mesenteric Ischemia
9.4.2. Occlusive Acute Mesenteric Ischemia 
9.4.3. Mesenteric Ischemia Due to Venous Thrombosis
9.4.4. Colic Ischemia or Ischemic Colitis

Module 10. Nutrition and Metabolism in the Critically Ill Patient     

10.1. Artificial Nutrition in the ICU 
10.2. Protocol for Glycemic Control in the Critically Ill Patient 
10.3. Hyperglycemic Crises: Ketoacidosis and Hyperosmolar Coma 

10.3.1. Pathophysiology 
10.3.2. Hypnosis 
10.3.3. Microbiological 
10.3.4. Pediatric Dentistry 
10.3.5. Complications 

10.4. Management of Complications Associated with Nutrition 
10.5. Critical Thyroid Pathology 

10.5.1. Thyroid Hyperfunction Disturbances 
10.5.2. Thyroid Hypofunction Disturbances 

Module 11. Organ Donation and Transplantation in Intensive Care Medicine     

11.1. Diagnosis of Encephalic Death

11.1.1. Diagnosis of Death by Neurological Criteria 
11.1.2. Encephalic Death or Death by Neurological Criteria 
11.1.3. Clinical Diagnosis 
11.1.4. Protocol Diagnosis of Death by Neurological Criteria 
11.1.5. Activity of Spinal or Medullary Origin 
11.1.6. Brain Stem Death 
11.1.7. Instrumental Tests 

11.2. Current Organ Donor Management 

11.2.1. Pathophysiology 
11.2.2. Potential Donor Maintenance Objectives 

11.3. Donation to a Stopped Heart 

11.3.1. Donors by Cardiac Criteria 
11.3.2. Specific Procedures of the Asystole Donation Program 

11.4. Management of Heart Transplant Recipient Patients 

11.4.1. Indications and Contraindications 
11.4.2. Surgical Technique 
11.4.3. Complications 
11.4.4. Immunosuppression 
11.4.5. Prognosis and Mortality 

11.5. Management of Liver Transplant Recipient Patients 

11.5.1. Measures In the Immediate Postoperative Period 
11.5.2. Complications 

11.6. Management of Lung Transplant Recipient Patients 

11.6.1. Pre-transplant Management 
11.6.2. Post-transplant Management 
11.6.3. Extracorporeal Respiratory Support 

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

12.1. Implications of Pharmacokinetics in the Optimization of Antimicrobial Therapy in the Critically Ill Patient 
12.2. Critical Care in Pregnancy and Peripartum 

12.2.1. Physiological Changes in Pregnancy 
12.2.2. Cardiovascular Diseases and Peripartum Cardiomyopathy 
12.2.3. Acute Respiratory Failure 
12.2.4. Preeclampsia 
12.2.5. Pharmacological Considerations in Pregnant Women 
12.2.6. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in Pregnant Patients 
12.2.7. Trauma During Pregnancy 
12.2.8. Septic Shock 

12.3. The acute Intoxication Patient in the ICU 

12.3.1. General Measures 
12.3.2. Specific Measures 
12.3.3. Toxidromes 

12.4. Ultrasound in the ICU: an Essential Tool for the Critically Ill Patient 

12.4.1. Ultrasound Imaging 
12.4.2. Clinical Ultrasound in the ICU 
12.4.3. Training in Clinical Ultrasound 

12.5. Intrahospital Transport of the Critically Ill Patient 

12.5.1. General Measures 
12.5.2. Procedure 
12.5.3. Annex 1: List of the Material in the Briefcase 
12.5.4. Annex 2: Checklist for In-hospital Transport of the Critically Ill Patient 

12.6. Post-intensive Care Syndrome 
12.7. Oncohematologic and Autoimmune Pathology Patients in the ICU 

12.7.1. Epidemiology of the Oncologic Patient in the ICU 
12.7.2. Admission of the Oncohematologic Patient in the ICU 
12.7.3. Prognosis of Oncology Patients in the ICU 
12.7.4. Admission Criteria of Oncology Patients in the ICU 
12.7.5. ICU Test 
12.7.6. Periodic Evaluation and Transition to Palliative Treatment 
12.7.7. Autoimmune Pathology Patients in the ICU 
12.7.8. Prognosis 
12.7.9. Rheumatologic Emergencies 
12.7.10. Microbiological 

12.8. Abdominal CT in the Critically Ill Patient 
12.9. Thoracic CT in the Critically Ill Patient

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

13.1. Underlying Pathology in Heart Failure

13.1.1. Structural Alterations

13.1.1.1. From Anatomy to Echocardiography

13.1.2. Physiological Alterations

13.1.2.1. The Reason for Chronic Treatment and its Effect on Prognosis

13.2. Acute Pulmonary Edema

13.2.1. Diagnostic and Prognostic Tools
13.2.2. Acute Treatment and Adjustment of Chronic Treatment

13.3. Cardiogenic Shock

13.3.1. Diagnostic and Prognostic Tools

13.3.1.1. Differential Diagnosis of Shock

13.3.2. Indication and Management of Vasoactive Drugs
13.3.3. Indication and Management of Circulatory Assistances

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

14.1. The Underlying Pathology in Acute Coronary Syndrome

14.1.1. Structural Alterations

14.1.1.1. Ischemic Heart Disease

14.1.2. Acute Coronary Syndrome without Evidence of Coronary Lesions

14.1.2.1. The Reason for Chronic Treatment and its Effect on Prognosis

14.2. Non-ST-Segment-Elevation in ACS

14.2.1. Acute Management

14.2.1.1. Microbiological
14.2.1.2. Treatment in the First 124 Hours

14.3. Expected Complications and Chronic Treatment in NSTEACS
14.4. ST-Segment-Elevation ACS

14.4.1.    Acute Management

14.4.1.1. Microbiological
14.4.1.2. Treatment in the First 124 Hours

14.4.2. Expected Complications and Chronic Treatment

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

15.1. General Bases: Cellular and Cardiac Electrophysiology Anatomy and Embryology of the Conduction System Normal and Pathological ECG 
15.2. Canalopathies
15.3. Preexcitation Management

Module 16. Non-Invasive Cardiac Imaging and Functional Tests

16.1. Basic Skills in Echocardiography

16.1.1. Echocardiographic Planes
16.1.2. Limitations in the Acute Context
16.1.3. Hemodynamic Calculations

16.2. Special Situations

16.2.1. Echocardiograms in the Initial Evaluation of the Patient

16.2.1.1. The Patient in Shock and the Echocardiogram as a Diagnostic Tool

16.2.2. Echocardiogram in the Hemodynamic Laboratory
16.2.3. Echocardiogram in Cardiac Surgery Operating Room
16.2.4. Acute Complications in Myocardial Infarction

16.3. General Basis of an Echocardiography Equipment
16.4. Transthoracic and Transesophageal Echocardiography
16.5. Cardiac CAT
16.6. Magnetic Resonance
16.7. Functional Tests

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

17.1. Functional Tests. Intubation and Invasive Mechanical Ventilation

17.1.1. Orotracheal Intubation

17.1.1.1. Available Tools and Technique

17.1.2. Mechanical Ventilation

17.1.2.1. Forms of Ventilation
17.1.2.2. Adjustment Depending on the Hemodynamic and Respiratory Situation of the Patient

17.2. Pericardiocentesis

17.2.1. Indications
17.2.2. Technique
17.2.3. Alternatives to Pericardial Drainage

17.3. Arterial and Central Venous Cannulation

17.3.1. Indications
17.3.2. Technique

17.4. Counterpulsation Balloon

17.4.1. Indications
17.4.2. Implantation Technique

17.5. Transient Pacemaker

17.5.1. Indications
17.5.2. Implantation Technique

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

18.1. The Patient Before, During and After Cardiac Surgery

18.1.1. Aspects to Look Out For
18.1.2. Evolution
18.1.3. Expected Complications
18.1.4. Vascular Surgery Indications
18.1.5. Emergency Coronary Surgery Indications

18.2. Acute Valvular Disease

18.2.1. Endocarditis
18.2.2. Other Indications of Emergency Surgery

18.3. Myocarditis

18.3.1. Certainties and Controversies in Acute Management

18.4. Percarditis, Pericardial Effusion and Cardiac Tamponade

18.4.1. Acute and Chronic Treatment Options in Pericarditis

Module 19. Action Guides in Acute Heart Disease

19.1. ST-Segment-Elevation ACS
19.2. Non-ST-Segment-Elevation ACS
19.3. Revascularization and DAPT
19.4. Heart Failure
19.5. Ventricular Arrhythmias and SCD - ICD Implantation Criteria
19.6. Syncope

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

20.1. Up-to-date Information on Congenital Cardiac Surgery

20.1.1. Introduction and History of Congenital Heart Disease
20.1.2. Basis of ECLS and ECMO
20.1.3. Ventricular and Transplant Care

20.2. Palliative and Corrective Surgical Techniques

20.2.1. Surgical Techniques on Septal Defects and Rings
20.2.2. IVC and ICA Partial Pulmonary Venous Abnormalities
20.2.3. AV Channel AP Window Cor Tiratiatum
20.2.4. TAPVR Vascular Rings, DAP
20.2.5. Right Heart Surgical Techniques
20.2.6. TOF
20.2.7. PAIVS and AVSD
20.2.8. Tricuspid Valve
20.2.9. RVOT and Pulmonary Valve
20.2.10. Left Heart Surgical Techniques
20.2.11. Aortic Valve
20.2.12. Mitral Valve and Coronary Abnormalities
20.2.13. Surgical Techniques of the Main Veins
20.2.14. Aorta, Coarctation of the Aorta, IAA
20.2.15. TGA and Truncus
20.2.16. Single Ventricle Text and Slide

20.3. Low Postoperative Expense Cardiac Dysfunction
20.4. Renal Complications Renal Purification Techniques
20.5. Pulmonary Complications Ventilatory Support Techniques Pulmonary Hypertension Crisis
20.6. Other complications

20.6.1. Post-Operation Infections Pneumonia, Sepsis and Infections of the Surgical Wound Mediastinitis
20.6.2. Cardiac Tamponade Phrenic Plication and Others

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