Fundamental Critical
Care Support Course in INDIA

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Dr NARENDRA RUNGTA

FCCS Course National Consultant & Director

&

Chief of ICU & Director, Rungta Hospital

Jaipur

Dr PRAVIN AMIN

Physician, Intensivist & Chief of ICU

Bombay Hospital, Mumbai

& Chairman FCCS Instructor's Club, India & pioneer in starting Course in INDIA 

 

Fundamental Critical Care Support Course was developed under the auspices of Society of Critical Care Medicine, USA by multidisciplinary educators in the fields of Anesthesiology, Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine, Nursing Pediatrics and surgery. The FCCS course is an international course being conducted in 25 countries all over the world since 1995 under the license from SCCM. The FCCS course is a standardized two-day course providing critical care information to those specialist who have no formal training in critical care medicine. The course consists of standardized 16 lectures referenced to syllabus material plus 7 interactive skill stations and pre & post assessment test. Individuals who successfully complete the required provider will receive a certificate of successful completion from Society of Critical Care Medicine, USA.

FCCS Provider Course Objectives

  •  Prioritize assessment needs for the Critically Ill Patient.
•  Identify appropriate diagnostic tests for the Critically Ill Patient.
•  Identify and respond to significant changes in the unstable patient.
•  Be able to recognize and Initiate Management of Acute Life Threatening Conditions.
•  Recognize the need for patient transfer and prepare the practitioner for optimally accomplishing that purpose.

Who Should Attend FCCS Provider Course?

 

•  Primary care physicians.
•  Emergency medicine physicians.
•  Nurses.
•  Critical Care Fellows beginning their training.
•  Residents in training.
•  Physicians assistants.
•  Pre-hospital providers with lengthy patient transfer.

Topics to be covered

 

•  Assessment of Seriously Ill Patient.

•  Airway Management.

•  Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation.

•  Diagnosis / Management of Acute Respiratory Failure.
•  Mechanical Ventilation, Basics and Advance.
•  Life Threatening Infections: Diagnosis and Antibiotic Selection.
•  Diagnosis and Management of Shock.
•  Acute Coronary Syndrome.
•  Basic Hemodynamic Monitoring.

•  Neurologic Support.
•  Electrolyte and Metabolic Disturbances.
•  Critical Care in Pregnancy.
•  General Pediatric Versus Adult Patient Considerations and Others...

Skill Stations :

 

•  Airway Management.
•  Mechanical Ventilation A.
•  Mechanical Ventilation B.

•  Mechanical Ventilation (Ped).
•  Defibrilation/ Transcutaneous Pacing / Pericardiocentesis.
•  Vascular Access.
•  Trauma / Burns.

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