Overview
Location
Akron General
Duration
4 weeks
Chief of Service
Lokesh Venkateshaiah, MD
1 Akron General Ave.
Akron, Ohio 44307
Contact
Melissa Gabler
UME Program Coordinator Internal Medicine
330.344.5470
gablerm@ccf.org
Description
Objectives
- To provide the student with experience in critical care medicine, including techniques in hemodynamic monitoring and basic ventilator management.
- Problem-oriented patient management and diagnosis of the critical care patient.
- Use of beside computerization.
- Introduction to monitoring the hemodynamic, respiratory, renal, and metabolic functions, their interactions, and manipulations.
- Introduction to ethical, legal, economical and administrative aspects of critical care medicine.
- Provides knowledge in the acute treatment of stroke.
- Exposure to ongoing research protocols in stroke and critical care.
Description
The student will be involved in the initial evaluation and continued care of patients admitted to the MICU. The student will be under the direct supervision of the senior medical resident and ICU physician. Selected reading is provided through a formal teaching booklet and critical care textbooks as well as slide and video presentations. The student will gain experience in critical care ventilator management and invasive monitoring techniques, including Swan-Ganz, SVO2, arterial catheterizations, etc. Formal teaching rounds will be made daily by the medical critical care physician with students, nurses, respiratory therapists, and house staff assigned to the team. The student will gain a basic knowledge of bedside ICU computer use for teaching didactics as well as patient care. The student will be part of the Acute Stroke Team and continue care of patients in the stroke unit. Night call is optional, but strongly recommended because of 24-hour critical care staff coverage in the ICU.
