9th Floor ICU. 4 Credit Hours

Catalog description

Students are required to participate in caring for post-transplant (liver, kidney, and lung) and post-cardiac patients as well as those needing extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) on the 9th Floor ICU at University Hospital. Students will learn about relevant neurologic, cardiovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal, hematologic, endocrine, and renal pathophysiology and treatment in these postoperative conditions. Emphasis will be placed on the diagnosis and treatment of all aspects of acute respiratory failure, especially that occurring in the postoperative state, including post-cardiac surgery. The ethics of life support are also discussed. Students will be evaluated based on their attendance, composite reviews from APPs and attendings they work this, and a brief presentation they will give in the last week of their rotation on a topic of their choice.