Intended learning outcomes (knowledge, skills and competences to be developed by the students): 

Knowledge:

• Causes, mechanisms, manifestations, prognosis and treatment of clinical situations requiring intensive care and / or continuous surveillance / monitoring;
• Preventive practices and critical patient monitoring;
• Intensive Care Severity Indices;
• Modes of ventilatory, renal and circulatory support

Skills:

• Valuation of clinical data oriented towards therapeutic decision-making in the context of intensive care;
• Assessment of degrees of severity;
• Basic and advanced cardiopulmonary resuscitation manoeuvres;
• Veno-puncture and arterial puncture for gasimetry;
• Placement of central venous catheters and arterial lines. 

Competences:

• Teamwork;
• Communication with the patient and family in the context of intensive care;
• Recognition of the technical and ethical limits of medical care / therapeutic;
• Presentation and discussion of clinical cases between pairs and intrahospital and interhospital referral. 

Syllabus: 

Diagnosis, therapeutics and prognosis of life-threatening situations or irreversible organ damage, such as:

• acute coronary and aortic syndromes;
• acute heart failure / pulmonary edema / shock;
• cardio-respiratory arrest;
• sepsis;
• digestive haemorrhage;
• hepatic impairment;
• acute or chronic acute respiratory failure;
• hemoptysis / pneumothorax;
• ketoacidotic / hyperosmolar / hypoglycemic / hypothyroid condition, thyrotoxicosis, adrenal insufficiency;
• acute abdomen;
• acute renal failure.

Critical patient approach:

• Infection control and antibiotic therapy;
• Food prophylaxis / nutritional support;
• Invasive and noninvasive hemodynamic monitoring;
• Vital function support (ventilatory, renal, circulatory);
• Sedo / analgesia;
• Hypo and hyperthermia;
• Transfusion support;
• Acid-base and hydro-electrolytic changes.