Critical Care Medicine — Rotations

Critical care Echocardiography

Teaching

Site: Amiri Hospital

EPAs mapped to this activity
For residents in TTD
C7. Performing Point-of-Care ultrasound Priority
For residents in F
C7. Performing Point-of-Care ultrasound Priority
For residents in C
C7. Performing Point-of-Care ultrasound Priority

Competencies covered in this activity

1. Practise medicine within their defined scope of practice and expertise
1.1. Demonstrate a commitment to high-quality care of their patients
1.3. Apply knowledge of the clinical and biomedical sciences relevant to Critical Care Medicine
1.3.9. Principles and methods of invasive and/or non-invasive monitoring
1.3.9.1. Respiratory status
1.3.9.2. Hemodynamic status
1.3.9.3. Neurologic status
1.3.9.4. Nutritional status
2. Perform a patient-centred clinical assessment and establish a management plan
2.1. Prioritize issues to be addressed in a patient encounter
2.1.1. Recognize, resuscitate, and stabilize patients sustaining, or at risk of, cardiopulmonary arrest or other life-threatening conditions
2.2. Elicit a history, perform a physical exam, select appropriate investigations, and interpret their results for the purpose of diagnosis and management, disease prevention, and health promotion
2.2.1. Interpret results of invasive and non-invasive monitoring
2.2.1.1. Hemodynamic
2.2.1.2. Neurologic
2.2.1.3. Respiratory
2.2.2. Interpret diagnostic imaging examinations, including general radiography, computerized tomography (CT), and point of care ultrasound
2.4. Establish a patient-centred management plan, for the following
2.4.1. Shock: distributive; hypovolemic; cardiogenic; obstructive
2.4.2. Acute critical illness of any etiology
2.4.2.1. Single or multiple organ dysfunction
2.4.2.2. Oncologic emergencies
2.4.2.3. Trauma and environmental injuries
2.4.2.4. Sepsis
2.4.2.5. Intoxication
2.4.2.6. Perioperative care
2.4.3. Chronic critical illness
2.4.4. Pain and symptom control
2.4.5. End of life, including goal-directed life-sustaining therapies
2.4.6. Organ and tissue donation
2.4.7. Critical illness in pregnancy
2.4.8. Perioperative risk optimization
3. Plan and perform procedures and therapies for the purpose of assessment and/or managemen
3.3. Prioritize procedures or therapies, taking into account clinical urgency and available resources
3.4. Perform diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in a skilful and safe manner, adapting to unanticipated findings or changing clinical circumstance
3.4.1. Diagnostic and monitoring procedures
3.4.1.1. Use, zero, and calibrate transducers
3.4.1.2. Use monitoring equipment
3.4.1.2.1. Cardiac output
3.4.1.2.2. Intra-abdominal pressure
3.4.1.2.3. Intracranial pressure (ICP)
3.4.1.2.4. Peripheral nerve stimulation for neuromuscular blockade
3.4.2. Use point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) assessment for
3.4.2.1. Ascites
3.4.2.2. Cardiac ventricular size and function
3.4.2.3. Identification of a pneumothorax
3.4.2.4. Pericardial effusion
3.4.2.5. Pleural effusion
3.4.2.6. Vascular access, including central venous access
3.4.2.7. Intravascular volume status
1. Engage in the continuous enhancement of their professional activities through ongoing learning
1.1. Develop, implement, monitor, and revise a personal learning plan to enhance professional practice
1.2. Identify opportunities for learning and improvement by regularly reflecting on and assessing their performance using various internal and external data sources
1.3. Engage in collaborative learning to continuously improve personal practice and contribute to collective improvements in practice
3. Integrate best available evidence into practice
3.1. Recognize practice uncertainty and knowledge gaps in clinical and other professional encounters and generate focused questions
Training experiences included in this activity
Transition to Discipline
Required
2.3. Orientation to the program, including policies, resident resources, program portfolios, learning resources, and assessment systems

Recommended
4.1. Simulation-based education, including procedural skills, communication, and team training (i.e., crisis resource management)

Optional
5.1. Membership in a specialty-specific professional organization
Foundation of Discipline
Required
2.2. Continued development in scholarly activity (e.g., development of a proposal)
2.3. Simulation-based education, including procedural skills, communication, and team training (i.e., crisis resource management)

Recommended
3.1. Instruction in learning and teaching
Core of Discipline
Required
2.3. Continued participation in scholarly activity