Clinical Fellow CT1 / 2 in Intensive Care Medicine

Day to day care of patients on the Critical Care units.Full-time including participation in a full shift rota system (48 hours per week)., The clinical duties of the post include the following:

• The Critical Care trust doctor must ensure that patients are managed ina timelyandappropriate wayin all aspects of critical care: resuscitation, stabilisation, working diagnosis, adequate monitoring, treatment, and discharge.
• Proficient in detailed handover of complex patients.
• Prompt assessment of the critically ill patients referred to ICU.
• The trainees willparticipatein the daily consultant ward round and review all admissions.
• Coordinate and evaluate the suitability for admission to ICU in consultation with the ICU Consultant.
• Communicate regularly with patients' relatives.
• Identifyingpatients suitable for discharge and liaise with ward teams.
• Work closely with the Outreach Team, reviewing and manage unstable patients on the ward.
• Teaching and training of junior trainees and medical students
• Attendance and participation in the critical care teaching (lectures, journal club presentations, M&M, Clinical Governance)
• Expertiseand guidance in dealing with complaints and other areas of clinical governance will be available to the trainee.
• Develop experience of placement of invasive lines
• Management of neurosurgical critical care patients including LICOX, ICP, EVDs
  
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