Program Overview

Intensive Care Medicine

The Sydney Professional Certificate in Intensive Care Medicine is designed to provide graduates with specialized knowledge in intensive care medicine.

Program Description

Graduates of this Professional Certificate will have the ability to:

• Explain the rationale for oxygen therapy and mechanical ventilation, including its effects on human physiology
• Appropriately initiate, monitor and escalate respiratory support consisting of oxygen therapy, non-invasive ventilation and invasive mechanical ventilation
• Describe medical gas supply systems, common ventilator systems, respiratory circuits and humidifier equipment, including their safety features and limitations
• Manipulate a mechanical ventilator and interpret data, including ventilator waveforms
• Analyse common ventilator data and problems and apply evidence-based solutions to routine and complex patient care scenarios
• Modify ventilator therapies and apply non-ventilator strategies to minimise complications and maximise effectiveness from mechanical ventilation
• Explain the components, rationale and indications for various extracorporeal life support (ECLS) modalities and their effects on human physiology
• Manipulate user-controlled variables via an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) console, predict the physiological consequences of the resulting changes
• Analyse common ECMO troubleshooting scenarios
• Apply evidence-based solutions to routine and complex patient care scenarios requiring ECLS, including weaning.

Program Requirements

Students must complete:

• 12 credit points of 5000-level units of study
  • CRIT5012 Mechanical Ventilation | 6
  • CRIT5015 Extracorporeal Life Support | 6