Critical Care Infectious Diseases Course 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

• 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