This course provides the opportunity for the participant to understand the principles of diagnosis and management of major clinical disorders encountered in the intensive care unit. Particular attention is placed on the acute management of critically ill 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, sepsis, severe pneumonia, and hormone deficiency states. Also discussed are the management of patients with a wide variety of infectious disease and approaches to nutritional, pharmacologic, and mechanical ventilatory support of the critically ill patient.