Fellowship in Critical Care

“Fellowship in Critical Care” is an educational course created for medical professionals who want to become experts in the art and science of treating critically sick patients in intensive care units. This course offers an engaging exploration of the core of critical care medicine, where compassion, judgment, and accuracy come together to save lives and give the best possible treatment for patients.

  • 12months
  • May 28, 2026
  • 44 modules
  • 120 CPD Points

Course Curriculum

1. Critical Care Fundamentals

  • Introduction
  • History of Critical Care
  • Patient Evaluation and Assessment

2. Basic Sciences For Critical Care

  • Anatomy Essentials – 1
  • Anatomy Essentials – 2
  • Anatomy Essentials – 3
  • Physiology essentials – 1
  • Physiology essentials – 2
  • Physiology essentials – 3
  • Physiology essentials – 4
  • Physiology essentials -5
  • Physics essentials – 1
  • Physics essentials – 2

3. Equipments Used In Critical Care

  • Medical Gas Supplies
  • Gas and Vapour Controls
  • Breathing System Components
  • Common Breathing Systems
  • Principles of Invasive Positive Pressure Ventilation (IPPV)
  • Ventilator Settings and Alarms
  • Filters, Humidifiers and Scavenging Systems
 

4. Monitoring in the ICU

  • Basic Monitoring: ECG, SpO2 and Blood Pressure
  • Gas Monitoring: O2, CO2, and Anaesthetic Agents
  • Nerve Stimulators and Temperature Monitoring

5. Preoperative Equipment Check In ICU

  • Checking the Anaesthetic Machine
  • Checking Other Equipments
  • Common Equipment Problems

6. Preoperative Assessment and Management In ICU

  • General Preoperative Measures
  • The Purpose of Preoperative Visiting
  • Assessment Of A Difficult Airway
  • ASA Grading and Preoperative Investigations
  • Risk and Consent

7. Common Critical Care Conditions

  • Assess Patients With Cardiovascular Or Respiratory Diseases
  • Identify Problems Posed By Obese & Diabetic Patients
  • Identify Risks Posed By Extremes Of Age & Emergency Surgery

8. The Operating Theatre Environment

  • Principles Of Safe Practice & Role Of Anaesthetist
  • Preparation And Usage of Equipment & Drugs
  • General Theatre Conduct
  • Medicines Safety In Anaesthetic Practice

9. Induction Of Anaesthesia & Intraoperative Management

  • Aims of Anaesthesia
  • Basic Principles Of Sedation
  • Types of Anaesthesia

10. Management of Airway & Failed Intubation Drills

  • Airway Maintenance: Facemask
  • The Classic Laryngeal Mask Airway
  • Basics of Tracheal Tube – 1
  • Basics of Tracheal Tube – 2
  • Recognizing Clinical signs & Management of Airway Obstruction
  • Recognizing Clinical signs & Management of Difficult Airway

11. Induction of Anaesthesia

  • Airway Maintenance: Facemask
  • The Classic Laryngeal Mask Airway
  • Basics of Tracheal Tube – 1
  • Basics of Tracheal Tube – 2
  • Recognizing Clinical signs & Management of Airway Obstruction
  • Recognizing Clinical signs & Management of Difficult Airway

12. Basic Techniques in General Anaesthesia

  • Spontaneous Ventilation with Laryngeal Mask Airway (LMA)
  • Ventilation with an Endo Trachial Tube (ETT)
  • Indications for Rapid Sequence Induction (RSI)

13. Drugs Used in ICU

  • Pre medication
  • Intravenous Induction Agents
  • Inhalational Anaesthetic Agents
  • Perioperative Analgesia
  • Neuromuscular Blocking Agents
  • Local Anaesthetic Agents
  • Drugs Used in an Emergency

14. Maintenance of Anaesthesia

  • Maintenance of Anaesthesia and Avoiding Awareness
  • Drugs used during Maintenance
  • Ventilation During Maintenance: Spontaneous or Mechanical
  • Monitoring, Vigilance for Untoward Events and Patient Positioning
  • Identify Haemorrhage and Hypovolaemia

15. Postoperative Management

  • Reversal and Extubation of Patients
  • Management of Slow and Failed Recovery
  • Transferring the Patient to Recovery

16. Post-Operative Recovery

  • Overview of Recovery
  • Airway maintenance and oxygen therapy
  • How To Assess Post-Operative Pain
  • Ward Visit after Major Surgery

17. Critical Incidents and Resuscitation

  • Identify Signs that Indicate Developing Respiratory Problems
  • Identify & How to Treat Intraoperative Hypotension, Hypertension
  • Bradycardia & Tachycardia
  • Recognise & Treatment of Anaphylaxis
  • Management of Perioperative Arrest

18. Advanced Life Support

  • Principles of Advanced Life Support

19. Principles of Critical Care Management – IV Cannulization

  • IV Cannula Insertion
  • IV Cannula Removal
  • Central Line Insertion
  • Central Line Removal
  • Arterial Catheterization
  • Pulmonary Artery Catheterization
  • Urinary Catheterization

20. Mechanical Ventilation and Respiratory Support

  • Chest Tube Insertion
  • Chest Tube Removal

21. Cardiovascular Support and Arrhythmia Management

  • Basic Principles of ECG
  • Artificial Cardiac Pacemakers

22. Renal and Metabolic Support in Critical Care

  •  Electrolyte Disturbances In Critical Illness
  • Respiratory Alkalosis
  •  Nutritional Support In The Intensive Care Unit

23. Central Nervous System

  • Lumbar Puncture

24. Critical Care Fundamental

  • Introduction
  • History of Critical Care
  • Patient Evaluation and Assessment
  • General Concepts of ICM
  • Urgent Situations with Limited Information

25. Comprehensive Critical care Management – Advanced Catheterization

  • IV Cannula Insertion
  • IV Cannula Removal
  • Central Line Insertion
  • Central Line Removal
  • Nasogastric Tube Insertion
  • Arterial Catheterization
  • Pulmonary Artery Catheterization
  • Urinary Catheterization
  • Supra Pubic Catheterization
  • Arterial Puncture for Blood Gas Analysis
  • Echo
  • Transthoracic ECHO

26. Forced Ventilation System and Ventilatory System

  • Oxygen Administration
  • High Flow Oxygen
  • Monitoring Oxygen Saturation
  • Laryngoscopy
  • Endotracheal Intubation
  • Bronchoscopy
  • Chest Tube Insertion and Care
  • Chest Tube Removal
  • Mechanical Ventilation
  • BI PAP
  • Ventilators

27. Cardiovascular Support and Pacemaker System

  • Basic Principles of ECG
  • Ischemic Heart Disease
  • Tachyarrhythmias
  • Bradyarrhythmias
  • Wolff–Parkinson–White Syndrome
  • Bundle Branch Blocks and Fascicular Blocks
  • Inherited Cardiac Arrhythmias
  • Artificial Cardiac Pacemakers
  • Diseases of the Pericardium and Myocardium
  • Drugs and Electrolyte Abnormalities
  • Cardioversion
  • Defibrillation

28. Neurological Support in Critical Care

  •  Intracranial Pressure (ICP) Monitoring And Management
  •  Sedation, Analgesia, And Delirium Management In Intensive Care
  •  Targeted Temperature Management (TTM) In Neurological Injury

29. Nephrologic and Catabolic Support

  •  Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT)
  •  Electrolyte And Acid-Base Disturbances In Critical Illness
  •  Nutritional Support In The Intensive Care Unit

30. Diagnostic Procedures: CNS

  • Lumbar Puncture
  • Epidural Catheter Removal

31. Gastrointestinal Procedures

  • Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
  • Biliary Atresia
  • Endoscopy With Feeding Tube Insertion
  • Abdominal Paracentesis
  • Sengstaken Tube Placement

32. Anesthesia

  • Management of Pain in Critically Ill Patients
  • Anesthesia for Bedside ICU Procedures
  • Various Gases used as Anesthetic Agents

33. Introduction to the Approach to the Critically Ill Patient and Airway Management

  • Monitoring and Testing the Critical Care Patient
  • Nutritional Supplementation in Critically Ill Patients
  • Critical Care Scoring Systems
  • Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
  • Vascular Access
  • Oxygen Desaturation
  • Bag-Valve-Mask Ventilation
  • Cricothyroidotomy (Cricothyrotomy)
  • Laryngeal Mask Airway
  • Nasotracheal Intubation
  • Rapid Sequence Intubation
  • Video Laryngoscopy and Fiberoptic-Assisted Tracheal Intubation
  • Intubation and Tracheal Suctioning for Meconium Aspiration

34. Ventilation and Respiratory Failure

  • Mechanical Ventilation
  • Noninvasive Ventilation
  • Noninvasive Ventilation Procedures
  • Ventilator Graphics
  • Ventilator Management
  • Respiratory Failure
  • Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)

35. Advanced Topics in Critical Care

  • Percutaneous Transtracheal Jet Ventilation
  • Dislodged Tracheostomy Positioning Technique
  • Tracheostomy
  • Tracheostomy Tube Change

36. Pulmonology

  • Acute Respiratory Failure
  • Aspiration Pneumonitis
  • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
  • Acute Bronchial Asthma and Management
  • Pulmonary Hypertension
  • Acute Inhalational Injury
  • Fat Embolism
  • Venous Thromboembolism
  • Community-Acquired Pneumonia (CAP)
  • Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia (Nosocomial Pneumonia) and Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia

37. Neurological Emergencies

  • Subdural Hematoma
  • Agitation, Confusion, and Neuromuscular Blockade in Critically Ill Patients
  • Vitamin B-12 Associated Neurological Diseases
  • Metabolic Encephalopathy
  • Status Epilepticus
  • Spinal Cord Injuries

38. Cardiovascular Emergencies and Advanced Cardiac Life Support

  • Evaluation of Chest Pain in ER
  • Ischemic Heart Disease
  • Acute Coronary Syndrome (Heart Failure)
  • Cardiogenic Pulmonary Edema
  • Cardiogenic Shock
  • Hypertensive Crisis
  • Arrythmias
  • Pacemakers
  • COVID-19’s Effect on Infective Endocarditis in People Who Inject Drugs

39. Gastrointestinal Emergencies

  • Acalculous Cholecystitis
  • Acute Liver Failure
  • Acute Pancreatitis
  • Chronic Pancreatitis
  • Small-Bowel Obstruction
  • Hemoptysis ( GI Bleeding )

40. Endocrine and Renal Disorders in Critical Care

  • Hypothyroidism and Myxedema crisis
  • Diabetic Ketoacidosis
  • Severe Hypoglycemia
  • Hyperosmolar Hyperglycemic State
  • Management of Hyperglycemia
  • Acid Base Balance
  • Acidosis
  • Alkylosis
  • Acute Renal Failure
  • Chronic Renal Failure

41. Infectious Diseases in Critical Care

  • Encephalitis
  • Meningitis
  • Infective Endocarditis
  • Infection-associated With Catheters and Prosthetic Devices
  • Catheter Induced Urinary Infections
  • Community-acquired Infections(Malaria ,TB, Dengue)

42. Special Environmental Emergencies in Populations

  • Heat Stroke
  • Cooling Techniques for Hyperthermia
  • Hypothermia
  • Frostbite
  • Drowning
  • High-altitude Syndrome
  • Hymenoptera Stings
  • Snakebite

43. Sepsis And Shock

  • Sepsis and Septic Shock
  • Etiology
  • Pathophysiology
  • Symptoms and Signs
  • Diagnosis
  • Treatment
  • Prognosis
  • Bacterial Pneumonia
  • Bacterial Sepsis
  • Community-Acquired Pneumonia Organism-Specific Therapy
  • Neonatal Sepsis
  • Pediatric Sepsis
  • Peritonitis and Abdominal Sepsis
  • Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS)
  • Treatment of Sepsis and Septic Shock in Children
  • Shock

44. Toxicology

  • Overview of Toxicology
  • Specific Toxicities: Acetaminophen, Alcohol, Amphetamine, Arsenic, Benzodiazepine, Cocaine, Cyanide, etc.
  • Management of Poisoning and Overdose
  • Withdrawal Syndromes
  • Corrosive Poisoning

Earn Recognized Certifications

Upon successful completion of the course and all required assessments, participants will be awarded professional certificates that are recognized by leading healthcare institutions.

  • Earn 120 CPD Points continuing medical education credits
  • Digital certification with secure verification
  • Share your achievement directly on LinkedIn and other platforms
  • Certificate issued by MedVantage Education and recognized industry partners

Category

Fellowship

Duration

12months

Mode

Hybrid

Clinical Obs.

Eligibility Criteria

  • MBBS Graduates
  • Practicing Doctors (MBBS+MD/MS/M.Ch)
  • MBBS+MD And DNB Residents
  • Undergraduate Medical Students In The Final Year

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Dr. D Peeyuusha

MBBS, MEM, MBA (Hospital Administration)

Consultant Emergency Physician Max Super Speciality Hospital, Noida Sec-128