Critical Care Selective: Week 3

Organization and Course Description

Patient Experience and Procedure Logs

Suggested Texts
Some readings from the suggested texts will be required prior to designated academic sessions

• Marini, J.J. and Wheeler, A.P. Critical Care Medicine: The Essentials.
• Marino, P. L. The ICU Book.
• Fanaroff A.A. and Fanaroff J.M. Care of the High Risk Neonate.
• Fuhrman = Active
• http://guides.lib.ucr.edu/mls/CriticalCare

Required Online Modules

Virtual Critical Care Rounds

Provided through the Society for Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) website. Students will be expected to complete all modules in either the VCCR Adult I or VCCR Pediatric II series. Each student will be provided with a login and password for both series, and progress and completion dates will be monitored by the selective director. Certain modules will need to be completed by certain dates (e.g., the module on Shock will need to be completed prior to the on-campus didactic session on shock).

VCCR Access: https://www.sccm.org/Education-Center

Ethics of Critical Care

• Required readings / materials:
  • Fuhrman Ch 11 and 12
  • Luce JM, White DB.  A History of Ethics and Law in the Intensive Care Unit.  Critical Care Clin.2009;25: 221–x.
  • Lewis-Newby M, Wicclair M, Pope T, Rushton C, et al.  ATS Ethics and Conflict of Interest Committee.  An official American Thoracic Society policy statement: managing conscientious objections in intensive care medicine.  Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2015 Jan;191(2):219-27.
  • Curtis JR.  Ethics and end-of-life care for adults in the intensive care unit. Lancet. 2010;376:1347-53.
  • Aviv, Rachel. What Does it Mean to Die? New Yorker, Feb 8 2018.
  • https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/02/05/what-does-it-mean-to-die
• Online Activities:
  • AAMC Article on COVID-19 Rationing: https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/nightmare-approaches-hospitals-painfully-prepare-life-and-death-decisions
  • Newsweek article on rationing in COVID: https://www.newsweek.com/2020/04/24/who-should-doctors-save-inside-debate-about-how-ration-coronavirus-care-1495892.html

End-of-life issues, Culturally Competent Care, and Death and Critical Illness Notification to Families

• Required online module(s): VCCR Adult Module “Palliative Care in the ICU: An Integrated Approach”
• Required readings/materials:
  • “GRIEVING: Death Notification Skills and Applications for Fourth-Year Medical Students”. Hobgood, et al. Teaching and Learning in Medicine, 21(3): 207-219. 2009.
  • SPIKES and SPAM format for Bad News (on iLearn).
  • Choi and Murn. Palliative Care in the ICU Chapter (on iLearn) R. C. Hyzy, J. McSparron (eds.), Evidence-Based Critical Care, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26710-0_107.

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Source:
https://ume.ucr.edu/critical-care
Captured on May 6, 2021