Students will be assigned to the Respiratory Intensive Care Unit. Under direct supervision of a Senior Medical Resident and a Pulmonary/Critical Care Fellow they will participate in the care of patients hospitalized in the Respiratory Intensive Care Unit. Daily attending rounds emphasize correlation of clinical, radiographic, laboratory, and invasive physiologic data in managing critically ill patients. Extensive experience in ventilator management and invasive monitoring. Students are on pager contact so they may be notified and participate in critical care decision making. Offered in modules I-XII. Prerequisite: MED 900 or permission of instructor.
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