Add-on Course
Matthew Carvey, MD
Emergency Medicine Resident
MetroHealth/Cleveland Clinic/CWRU
Cleveland, Ohio
Ava Omidvar, MD, MPH, FP-C
Graduate
St. George's University School of Medicine
Kensington, Maryland
Ryan Kelly, MD, MSc
Emergency Medicine Resident
Memorial Healthcare System
Pembroke Pines, Florida
Arya Hawkins-Zafarnia, MD, MA (he/him/his)
Graduate
St. George's University School of Medicine
Brooklyn, New York
Session Description: This course delves into the fundamentals of critical care to prepare medical students and interns for the rigors of the specialty as it pertains to emergency medicine. Subjects covered will include arterial blood gas/CBC/BMP interpretation, oxygen therapy and mechanical ventilation, drug therapy (pertaining to analgesics, sedatives and paralytics), intra-aortic balloon pump therapy and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, pediatric and neonatal critical care, hemodynamic and intracranial pressure monitoring, cardiac pacing and implantable cardiac devices, fluid therapy and massive transfusion, and lastly, POCUS in EM.
Online: Over 2 months (February-April, 2023), with bi-monthly zoom sessions (1 hour in duration each) and quizzes (2 bi-monthly).
In-person (practical): Over one weekend (Saturday for 5 hours) as a pre-conference course.