Aim of the teaching is to:
• Provide advanced knowledge and skills for the early recognition, management, monitoring, and re-evaluation of critically ill patients in complex medical-surgical emergencies.
• Provide methodological competencies for the clinical, laboratory, and instrumental management of acute and life-threatening conditions in emergency and intensive care, including shock, coma, and multi-organ failure.
• Provide knowledge of invasive and non-invasive monitoring techniques, hemodynamic support, respiratory assistance, extracorporeal therapies, and perioperative intensive care.
• Provide expertise in the use of Early Warning Scores (EWS) and other tools for the timely identification of clinical deterioration.
• Provide skills for the management of pain, anxiety, and sedation in critically ill patients, with validated tools for assessment and continuous monitoring.
• Provide competencies for the safe administration of enteral nutrition and fluid therapy, including assessment, devices, drug–nutrient interactions, prevention and management of complications.
• Provide expertise in pharmacology, including pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics, therapeutic uses, contraindications, and adverse drug reactions, with focus on drugs commonly used in critical and emergency care.
• Provide knowledge of internal medicine emergencies, including syncope, arrhythmias, heart failure, acute coronary syndromes, stroke, pulmonary embolism, poisoning, trauma, epidemics, and disaster scenarios.
• Provide competencies for the recognition and management of specific acute conditions such as systemic anaphylaxis, acute intoxications, metabolic emergencies, and respiratory or cardiac failure.
• Provide knowledge and skills for surgical and perioperative emergencies, including trauma care, acute abdomen, damage control surgery, diagnostic approaches, and management of surgical complications.
• Provide expertise in anesthesiology, including preoperative risk assessment, airway management inside and outside the operating room, pain therapy, PACU care, and perioperative emergencies.
• Provide knowledge of rapid response systems, basic and advanced life support, recognition and treatment of dysrhythmias, and technical or pharmacological interventions during emergencies.
• Provide principles and practices of nursing documentation in critical and emergency care settings.
• Provide tools for effective communication with patients, families, and interprofessional teams in high-complexity and emotionally demanding contexts.