Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine was established on 9th October, 1993, in Mumbai, India. It is the largest non-profit association of Indian Physicians, Nurses, Physiotherapists and other allied health care professionals involved in the care of the critically ill. ISCCM which was started with a small group of consultants, from Mumbai, is now having membership of 12046, comprising of 87 city branches all across the India with headquarter at Mumbai
A 4-day Capsule Course covering various aspects of Critical Care.
Helpful for preparation of ISCCM, National Board and EDIC Theory & Practical Examination

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Day 1 

- 1 Extra Corporeal life support devices
- 2 A Covid 19 Pathogenesis
- 2 B Covid 19 Pathogenesis
- 3 Covid 19 Landmark trials
- 4 A polytrauma patient
- 5 Life threatening haemorrhage acute coagulopathy of trauma and massive transfusion in ICU
- 6 A critically ill pregnant patient
- 7 Electrolytes disturbances other than sodium yes we do exist
- 8 Skin and soft tissue catastrophe time is less to treat
- 9 Fungal infections in ICU-new headache
- 10 Antimicrobial drugs
- 11 Tropical fever in critical care
- 12 Antimicrobial dosing in Critical care
- 13 Principles of aerosol therapy in critical care
- 14 Non-invasive ventilation and Bipap settings to guidelines
- 15 The screen on ventilator curves and loops
- 16 PEEP titration in various diseases in intensive care
- 17 How do I interpret my ABG
- 18 Drowning classification and management
- 19 Morbid Obesity and Critical illness is there a reason to panic
- 20 A burns patient in ICU

Day 2 

- 1 A patient with acute onset jaundice coagulopathy and encephalopathy
- 2 Patient with tense abdomen high pressures with or without organ failures
- 3 Acute pancreatitis identification to management
- 4 A decompensated chronic liver disease patient in my ICU
- 5 Practice changing studies in critical care - I
- 6 Practice changing studies in critical care - II
- 7 Bitten by a venomous snake
- 8 Unknown substance overdose how do I manage
- 9 Heat stroke and heat exhaustion HAPE AMS and HACE
- 10 Intracranial hypertension definition pathophysiology techniques to measure and interpretation
- 11 Bulging brain how do I control
- 12 Brain stem death assessment and declaration
- 13 A patient with acute confusional state in icu
- 14 Critical illness polyneuromyopathy Risk factors diagnosis and management
- 15 Seizure in critically ill
- 16 Endocrine emergencies in critical care - rare but life threatening
- 17 Newer oral anticoagulants drugs risk and control of bleeding
- 18 An unanticipated difficult airway in ICU
- 19 A patient post solid organ transplant
- 20 Instruments

Day 3 

- 1 Hemodynamic monitoring - the basics
- 2 Hemodynamic monitoring beyond basics
- 3 Fluid responsiveness beyond 30 ml per kg
- 4 AKI Definition pathophysiology diagnosis and prevention
- 5 A patient with AKI – how and when do I dialyze
- 6 Dysnatremias in ICU am still confused
- 7 A Febrile Patient with no Neutrophils
- 8 Does my patient really have HAPVAP If yes how do I manage
- 9 A patient with cough fever breathlessness and infiltrates on X-ray Myasthenia Gravis when and how
- 10 Ventilation beyond basics
- 11 Traumatic brain injury
- 12 A patient with sudden onset headache but worst of his life
- 13 Guillain Barre Syndrome and Myasthenia Gravis
- 14 A patient with fever, altered sensorium with or without seizures
- 15 How to interpret my patients ECG
- 16 How to appraise a research paper
- 17 Plasma exchange in critical care-when and how to d0
- 18 Imaging relevant to critical care
- 19 Drugs

Day 4 

- 1 Right Heart Failure Intensivist nightmare
- 2 What to do after cardiac arrest TTM and post cardiac arrest care
- 3 A patient in cardiac failure with or without poor heart
- 4 A patient with sudden onset pain in legs with circulatory collapse
- 5 hypertension and organ dysfunction
- 6 Oxygen therapy devices in ICU
- 7 Ventilation induced lung injury how do I prevent
- 8 My patient continues to remain hypoxic how do I manage
- 9 Various methods by which I can wean my patient from ventilator
- 10 My patient has GI bleed Variceal nonvariceal upper lower
- 11 Abdominal catastrophes in intensive care
- 12 A potential organ donor in ICU how do I optimize
- 13 Thrombocytopenia and coagulopathies in ICU
- 14 Hematological Emergencies in ICU
- 15 A patient with breathing difficulty with or without history of smoking and atopy
- 16 O P Poisoing
- 17 Whom when and how to feed a critically ill patient Will he land up with refeeding backlash
- 18 A patient with sudden onset of slurring of speech with weakness in limbs

Date of Release : March 2021