Master the Skills You Need to Practice Critical Care Medicine
The Harvard 13th Annual Principles of Critical Care Medicine for Non-Intensive Care Specialists 2025 is a comprehensive live-streamed program designed to provide healthcare professionals with the latest evidence-based approaches to the care of critically ill patients. Tailored for non-intensivists, this course focuses on practical management strategies for respiratory failure, shock, sepsis, neurologic emergencies, obstetric critical care, and other life-threatening conditions frequently encountered in acute care settings.
Led by distinguished Harvard Medical School faculty and frontline intensivists from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the program combines concise lectures, interactive Q&A sessions, real-world case discussions, and practical demonstrations. Participants will gain essential knowledge in ventilator management, critical care ultrasound (POCUS), sedation and delirium management, cardiopulmonary support devices, and communication strategies for high-acuity patient care.
This course is ideal for hospitalists, internists, emergency physicians, family physicians, subspecialists, advanced practice providers, nurses, and pharmacists who stabilize or co-manage critically ill patients outside the ICU environment.
* Original Release Date: September 16-19, 2025
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Rapidly recognize and initiate management for shock, sepsis, and multi-organ failure
- Review the principles of invasive and non-invasive mechanical ventilation, including high-flow oxygen therapy
- Apply evidence-based approaches to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and determine when ECMO should be considered
- Utilize point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) for hemodynamic assessment and procedural guidance
- Identify best practices for sedation, analgesia, and prevention and management of ICU delirium
- Describe contemporary approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of common ICU infections and septic shock
- Assess and manage cardiopulmonary emergencies, including heart failure, unstable arrhythmias, and pulmonary embolism
- Recognize neurologic and obstetric emergencies encountered in critical care settings
- Discuss updates in post-operative critical care and cardiopulmonary support devices
- Develop effective communication strategies with patients and families during high-acuity clinical situations
- Incorporate current evidence-based critical care practices into daily clinical management
HARVARD ANNUAL PRINCIPLES OF CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE FOR NON-INTENSIVE CARE SPECIALISTS
