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ACP’s fourteen-hour collection of high yield course lectures and discussions is tailored specifically to meet the evolving needs of internists regarding the management of patients in the intensive care unit.

Expert clinician-educators cover numerous clinical issues, including:

- pearls regarding the recognition of disease process.

- acute management of critical illness and prevention of complications.

- diagnostic techniques and prevention of complications used in the management of the critically ill adult.

- recommendations for the management of common critical illnesses encountered in the intensive care unit and strategies for preventing complications of critical illness.

- management of patients with a wide variety of infectious diseases.

- methods for preventing common complications in the critically ill patient.

- management of acute coronary syndromes and myocardial infarction, acute stroke.

- acute respiratory failure (including acute respiratory distress syndrome), circulatory shock, pulmonary embolism.

- drug overdose.

- sepsis and septic shock.

- surgical emergencies (i.e., ischemic bowel and necrotizing fasciitis).

- acute airflow obstruction in obstructive lung disease.

- severe pneumonia.

- approaches to acute encephalopathy.

- mechanical ventilatory support of the critically ill patient.

- care of patients with cancer in the intensive care unit.

Course Director:
Robert A. Balk, MD, MCCM, MACP, FCCP
Professor of Medicine, Rush Medical College, Director, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Associate Chief Medical Officer for Critical Care, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL