Date: 29 Feb 2012; Venue: Prince of Wales Hospital
Dear all,
I am writing to cordially invite members of your department to the Mechanical Ventilation – beyond BASIC course which is suitable for senior ICU trainees and specialist intensivists. We would be most grateful if you could circulate the following information within your department
Mechanical Ventilation – beyond BASIC
A blended learning course consisting of a course manual, distance learning material and a day of small group skill stations.
Topics will include:
• Applied respiratory physiology
• Acute respiratory failure
• Heart-lung interactions
• Advanced airway management
• Humidification
• Basics of mechanical ventilation
• Assist control modes: volume control, pressure control, pressure regulated volume control
• SIMV and assist modes including pressure support, volume support and neurally adjusted ventilatory assist
• Other modes: adaptive support ventilation, bilevel airway pressure
• Ventilator settings
• Sedation and paralysis
• Troubleshooting
• Non-invasive ventilation
• Weaning
• Respiratory monitoring including waveform analysis
• ARDS
• Unilateral lung disease
• Obstructive airways disease
Date: 29 Feb 2012
Venue: Prince of Wales Hospital
Cost: HK$1200
For registration, please go to http://www.aic.cuhk.edu.hk/web8/BASIC%20MV.htm.
Thank you very much.
Best wishes,
Janet Fong
Dept of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Tel: 26321911