SURGICAL CRITICAL CARE

Residents will be able to evaluate, diagnose, and manage critically ill surgical patients through interactions within the Intensive Care Unit and operating room. Residents will learn how to interpret results from data, understand the uses of the equipment, become facile in the insertions of central venous catheters, hemodynamic monitoring using tans-thoracic and transesophageal echocardiography, arterial lines jugular venous monitoring, nanojejoule feeding catheters, intubation, tracheostomy, percutaneous tracheostomy, and percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy.