A 20 Modules course on Infections prevalent in Critical Care Units. The course will span for a duration of 20 weeks, an extra 5 weeks will be given for “Performance Evaluation & Certification”
Topics
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Week 1: Basic Microbiology
Week 2: Principles of Antibiotic Therapy
Week 3: Management Of Gram negative MDR organisms in ICU
Week 4: MRSA
Week 5: Management Sepsis and Septic Shock
Week 6: Severe Community Acquired Infections
Week 7: Ventilator Associated Pneumonia
Week 8: Nosocomial infections
Week 9: Approach to fungal infections in ICU
Week 10: Surgical site infections
Week 11: Tropical infections in the ICU
Week 12: Identifying and managing viral infection in ICU
Week 13: Infections in burns, trauma and zoonosis
Week 14: Infection in the immunocompromised host (SLE, etc)
Week 15: Infections in a post-transplant patient
Week 16: Managing CNS Infections in the ICU
Week 17: HIV, TB, in intensive care
Week 18: Principles of infection control
Week 19: Applying antimicrobial Stewardship in your ICU
Week 20: Pediatric Infection in ICU
