Canonical Reading Material for the Exam Candidate

Oh's Intensive Care manual:

  • Chapter 1 (pp.3)    Design  and  organisation  of  intensive  care  units   by
    Vineet  V  Sarode  and  Felicity  H  Hawker
  • Chapter 2. (pp.10)   Critical  care  outreach  and  rapid  response  systems   by John  R  Welch  and  Christian  P  Subbe
  • Chapter 3 (pp.16) Severity  of  illness  and  likely  outcome  from  critical  illness   by Mark  Palazzo
  • Chapter 8 (pp. 61)  Common  problems  after  ICU by Carl  S  Waldmann  and  Evelyn  Corner
  • Chapter 9 (pp. 69)  Clinical  information  systems by David  Fraenkel
  • Chapter 13   (pp. 98) Health  care  team  in  intensive  care  medicine by Gerry  O’Callaghan

Summaries and discussions of administrative-bureaucratic topics from Life in the Fast Lane are made available as a list of links in the Resources section.
Administration of the ICU
Design and staffing of intensive care units
Clinical policymaking in intensive care
Adoption of new components of care
Open and closed models of intensive care units
Intensive Care workforce
The Intensive Care Trainee with Difficulties
Crisis resource management
Intensive Care Outcomes Data
Mortality and functional outcomes in intensive care
Illness severity scoring systems
The Standardised Mortality Ratio (SMR)
Quality assurance in Intensive Care
Critical Care Outreach
Critical Care Outreach and the Medical Emergency Team (MET)
Organisation of the Medical Emergency Team (MET)
Information management strategies
The clinical information system (CIS)
Risk minimisation
Safe prescribing and minimisation of medication error
Hand washing and personal protective equipment
Disaster management
Mass casualty disaster management
Fire safety in the ICU