This course provides the opportunity for the participant to understand the principles of diagnosis and management of common clinical problems and conditions encountered in the intensive care unit. Particular attention is placed on the acute management of critically ill adult patients with a wide variety of processes. Topics include acute coronary syndromes and myocardial infarction, acute stroke management, acute lung injury and ARDS, DVT and pulmonary embolism, electrolyte and acid-base disorders, drug overdose, septic shock, and hormone deficiency states. Also discussed are the management of patients with a wide variety of infectious diseases and approaches to nutritional, pharmacologic, and mechanical ventilatory support of the critically ill patient.

Learning Objectives:

1. Update the internist on common disorders and diseases encountered in the intensive care unit.
2. Review the diagnostic techniques used in the management of the critically ill adult.
3. Discuss recommendations for management of common critical illnesses encountered in the intensive care unit.

Director:
Robert A. Balk, MD, FACP
Professor of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL

Faculty:
Cherylee W. J. Chang, MD, Member
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine and Surgery, John A. Burns School of Medicine; Medical Director, Neuroscience Institute/ Neurocritical Care, The Queen's Medical Center, Honolulu, HI

R. Phillip Dellinger, MD
Professor of Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; Director, Section of Critical Care Medicine, Cooper University Hospital, Camden, NJ

David P. Gurka, MD, Member
Assistant Professor, Director, Medical Intensive Care Unit, Section of Critical Care Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL

Steven M. Hollenberg, MD
Director, Coronary Crae Unit, Cooper University Hospital; Professor of Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson, Medical School, UMDNJ, Camden, NJ

George H. Karam, MD, FACP
Paula Garvey Manship Professor of Medicine, Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans; Head, Department of Medicine, Earl K. Long Medical Center, Baton Rouge, LA

Michael S. Niederman, MD, FACP, FCCP, FCCM
Professor of Medicine, Vice Chair, Department of Medicine, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY

Curtis N. Sessler, MD
Professor of Medicine, Medical Director of Critical Care, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical College of Virginia, Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

Gary P. Zaloga, MD, FACP
Medical Director, Methodist Research Institute; Clinical Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine; Indianapolis, IN

Janice L. Zimmerman, MD, FACP
Professor of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX