Description
Students enrolled in the Wilderness and Rural Track are required to complete a Critical Care block. This can be done in an intensive care setting, in a pediatric intensive care setting or in a neonatal intensive care setting. Critical care medicine encompasses the diagnosis and treatment of a wide variety of clinical problems representing the extreme of human disease. Critically ill patients require intensive care by a coordinated team. Students will be participate in patient care as part of the intensive care team. Students will learn to be competent not only in a broad range of conditions common among critically ill patients but also with the technological procedures and devices used in the intensive care setting. The care of critically ill adults, infants and children raises many complicated ethical and social issues, this rotation will teach students how to cope in areas such as end-of-life decisions, advance directives, estimating prognosis, and counseling of patients and their f