الفصل الخامس: القضايا الطبية والقانونية والأخلاقية في وحدة العناية المركزة
Chapter 5: Medico-legal and ethical issues in ICU
كورس مبادئ الرعاية المركزة ICU Fundamentals
Objectives
1. Define the most important ethical and legal terms
2. Describe elements of informed consent
3. Identify mechanisms exist when critical patient lacks decision making capacity
4. Describe patient's rights in the intensive care unit
5. Describe cases of illegitimate and legitimate violation of patient rights
6. Define low and its classifications
7. Identify purpose of accountability
8. Differentiate between intentional, unintentional torts, negligence and malpractice
9. Compare between informed and implied consent
10. Identify common bases that giving rise to malpractice and different strategies to protect health care professionals
11. Explain Do Not Resuscitate Orders
12. Compare between withholding and withdrawal of treatment
13. Explain when the clinician can and can't switch off the life support machine
14. Describe types of advanced directive

Course description
This course will prepare the technical student with basic knowledge and skills in order to appraise, assess and manage critically ill patients. Critically analyze theory and knowledge in order to inform and influence clinical practice, and support the physical and psychosocial well-being of critically ill patients. This involves intensive care unit portrayal, patient assessment and monitoring, common patient needs, their general management. The student will learn how to communicate with critically ill patients and their families, how to document and report patient data. They will also gain practical experience on different monitoring techniques and basic patient management
Core Knowledge
By the end of this course, students should be able to:
• Identify Intensive care unit characteristics, levels, patients, staff, organization and design
• Explain ICU admission and discharge criteria
• Recognize different assessment and monitoring techniques for general ICU patient
• Explain in-hospital patient transfer, pre and inter-hospital transport of the critically ill and injured patient
• Discuss the legal and ethical issues and values that influence the practice of health team.
• Identify basic principles of nutrition, fluid and electrolyte management
Core Skills
By the end of this course, students should be able to:
• Perform basic technical skills of measuring vital signs, drug administration, IV fluid administration
• Apply basic infection control procedures as handwashing
• Apply different monitoring techniques with, blood glucose monitoring, and pulse oximeter
• Participate in patient transfer

Content
1. Intensive care unit characteristics, levels, patients, staff, organization design, ICU admission & discharge criteria
2. Patient assessment
 Pre-arrival assessment
 Admission assessment
 Comprehensive admission assessment
 Ongoing assessment
3. Hemodynamic monitoring
 Circulatory assistive devices
 Artificial airways
4. Common problems of critical care patients
 Nutrition
 Anxiety
 Pain
 Impaired communication
 Sensory perceptual alteration
 Sleep pattern disturbances
5. Prevention of common complications
 Physiological instability
 Deep venous thrombosis
 Hospital acquired infection
 Skin breakdown
 Psychological impact
6. Communication with patients & families in the ICU
7. Documentation in the ICU
8. Medico-legal & ethical issues in ICU
9. Transporting the critically ill patient
 In-hospital transfer of the critically ill patient
 Pre – & inter-hospital transport of the critically ill & injured
10. General management of the patient
 Nutritional therapy
 Fluid & acid-base management
 Glycemic control
 Sleep
 Pain control
 Sedation, agitation, delirium management
 Physical therapy
 Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
 Vascular access
 Drug administration
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