Paediatric Intensive Care

GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO PAEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE; 1. An introduction to paediatric intensive care; 2. Epidemiology and outcome of paediatric intensive care; 3. Paediatric resuscitation and critical care outreach; 4. Clinical assessment; 5. Physics and clinical measurement; 6. Vascular access and monitoring; 7. Applied physiology; ORGAN SYSTEM SUPPORT AND RELATED PRACTICAL PROCEDURES; 8. Airway management and ventilation; 9. Anaesthesia; 10. Analgesia and sedation; 11. Circulatory support; 12. Cardiopulmonary bypass; 13. Managing fluids and electrolytes/acid base; 14. Renal replacement therapies; 15. Nutrition; 16. Heat-related illness; 17. Prescribing; 18. Transport and retrieval; 19. Imaging in paediatric intensive care; SPECIFIC SPECIALTIES; 20. Cardiac disorders and post-operative care; 21. Respiratory disease; 22. Neurocritical care; 23. Trauma; 24. Infection control policies and PICU; 25. Immunity and infection; 26. Sepsis and multiple organ failure; 27. Laboratory investigations for infectious disease; 28. Antimicrobial use on the PICU; 29. Neonatology; 30. Gastroenterology and hepatology; 31. Nephrology; 32. Diabetes and endocrinology; 33. Metabolic; 34. Haematology and oncology; 35. Brain death, organ donation, and transplantation; 36. Poisoning; 37. Technology dependent children; 38. Genetic syndromes; 39. Paediatric intensive care medicine in the developing world; COMPASSIONATE AND FAMILY-ORIENTATED CARE; 40. The child and family in PICU; 41. Aspects of the law in paediatric intensive care; 42. Clinical governance, audit and risk management; 43. Child protection

Peter Barry has published over 60 papers and review articles in the fields of paediatric intensive care, inhalational drug delivery and high altitude medicine. He is currently a consultant in paediatric intensive care, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, and an honorary senior lecturer at the Department of Child Health, University of Leicester.