ESICM Academy: browse the Infection eModules
Academy eModules are electronic books grouped into categories. They contain updated, peer-reviewed, evidence-based training material incluing a new module about how to apply a rapid hiv test. ESICM Academy is accredited by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME).
If you are an ESICM member, you can access for free all the courses available on the Academy. This month, we bring to your attention all the eModules related to the Metabolism, Endocrinology & Nutrition Section.
Acute Liver Failure
In this module, the term Acute Hepatic Failure (AHF) will include both acute liver failure (ALF) and acute on chronic liver failure (ACLF); although these conditions share a number of aetiologies, they are distinct entities with important differences both in terms of clinical presentation and management.
Nutrition Part I-V
In addition to the high prevalence of malnutrition in patients admitted to intensive care units, critical illness further increases the risk and severity of malnutrition. This modules will describe the metabolic response to critical illness and outline essentials of feeding during the different phase of critical illness.
Pancreatitis
After studying this module on Pancreatitis, you should be able to manage severe acute pancreatitis with appropriate use of supportive therapy for organ function, antibiotics and surgery; determine the nutritional needs of patients with acute pancreatitis and the optimum mode of delivery.
The abdomen in critical care Part I-IV
The interaction between abdominal organs and critical illness is complex and can present in a variety of ways. The first module describes normal physiology of the gastrointestinal tract, and how this is affected by critical illness.
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