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Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences (Amrita Hospital), based in Faridabad, Delhi, India is recognised as one of the premier hospitals in South Asia. Our commitment to affordable quality care has attracted a dedicated team of highly qualified medical professionals and other healthcare professionals from across the world to provide the highest standards of medical treatment. The institution currently offers Fellowship programs in various specialities.

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Course Objective

At the end of the course, the candidate should be able to:

  • Understand the theoretical basis of organ dysfunction and critical illness
  • Apply these principles to treat critically ill patients
  • Develop the knowledge and skills to diagnose critical illnesses and their complications
  • Critically evaluate published literature
  • Learn to practice evidence-based medicine in managing critically ill patients
  • Develop skills of communication with family members of critically ill patients
  • Apply the highest ethical standards in the practice of medicine

Programs

Vision
  • Develop expertise in the complex care of all adult critically ill patients.
  • Evidence-based decision-making.
  • Development of desired technical expertise with emphasis on safety, self- analysis and improvement.
  • Development of appropriate communication skills.
  • Development of efficient interdisciplinary collaboration.
  • Develop skills in the design, understanding, and performance of clinical and/or laboratory research that will result in a better understanding of mechanisms of disease, physiology, and pathology, and the completion of at least one mentored research or scholarship project under the supervisionn of the program supervisor.
  • Develop expertise at organization, analysis, preparation, and presentation of data.
  • Be prepared for a successful academic or clinical career, and have the opportunity to pursue her/his own development in a research, clinical scholar, or clinical educator academic track, or to develop all skills required for a career in critical care medicine.
  • Use of research technology and skills In conducting clinical and experimental studies.
  • Development of professional leadership and management skills.
Theoretical Knowledge

Respiratory

  • Management of airways
  • Pulmonary edema
  • Adult respiratory distress syndrome
  • Hypercapnic respiratory failure
  • Severe asthma and COPD
  • Respiratory infections – community- and hospital-acquired
  • Chest trauma
  • Respiratory muscle disorders
  • Thoracic surgery
  • Management of airways
  • Pulmonary edema
  • Adult respiratory distress syndrome
  • Hypercapnic respiratory failure
  • Severe asthma and COPD
  • Respiratory infections – community- and hospital-acquired
  • Chest trauma
  • Respiratory muscle disorders
  • Thoracic surgery
  • Cardiovascular
  • Haemodynamic instability and shock
  • Cardiac arrest
  • Acute myocardial infarction
  • – Unstable angina
  • Cardiomyopathies
  • valvular heart disease
  • Myocarditis
  • Cardiac tamponade
  • Pulmonary embolism
  • Aortic dissection
  • Hypertensive crisis
  • Peripheral Vascular diseases
  • post-operative care

Neurology

  • Coma
  • Status epilepticus
  • Head trauma
  • Intracranial hypertension
  • Cerebrovascular accidents and cerebral vasospasm
  • Meningo-encepha\itis
  • Acute neuromuscular disease (including myasthenia & Guillain Barre syndrome)
  • Post anoxic brain damage
  • Acute confusional states
  • Brain

Metabolic and Nutritional

  • Fluid balance
  • Electrolyte balance and its disorders
  • Acid-ba»e disorders
  • Endocrine disorders (including diabetes mellitus, acute adrenal insufficiency, pituitary disorders, hyper- and hypothyroidism)
  • Nutrition in critical illness
  • Enteral and Parenteral nutrition,
  • Monitoring of nutrition

Renal

  • Olguria/ anuria
  • Acute renal failure
  • Renal replacement therapy (RRT)
  • Continuous RRT

Transplant

  • Peri transplant management
  • Post Liver/kidney Transplant infectious, non infectious complications

Toxicology

Acute intoxications

  • Drug overdose
  • Serious adverse reactions to drugs
  • Envenomation

Obstetric

  • Preeclampsia, eclampsia
  • HELLP syndrome
  • Acute fatty liver of pregnancy
  • Amniotic fluid embolism
  • Postpartum haemorrhage  Obstetric shock Puerperal sepsis

Haematological

  • Disseminated intravascular coagulation and other coagulation disorders,
  • Thrombocytopenia
  • Hypercoagulable states and anticoagulation
  • Haemolytic syndromes
  • Acute blood loss and anaemia
  • Neutropenia
  • Blood component therapy,Infections
  • Severe infection due to aerobic and anaerobic bacteria
  • Acute severe viral infection
  • Fungal and parasites infections with sepsis and organ failure
  • Nosocomial infection,
  • Infection in the immunocopromised host
  • Tropical disease,
  • Antimicrobial therapy
  • Post surgical infectionsGastrointestinal and hepatic disorders,
  • Acute and chronic liver failure
  • Prevention and treatment of acute upper G,I. bleeding
  • Management of acute lower GI bleeding
  • Peritonitis,
  • Mesenteric vascular disease
  • Perforated viscus
  • Bowel obstruction
  • Abdominal trauma
  • Abdominal surgery — post-operative care

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