Conferences

Surgical Critical Care Faculty Conferences are led by the attending of the week and cover various critical care topics:

Surgical Critical Care Journal Club

• Hemodynamic Resuscitation

• Traumatic Brain Injury

• Advanced Ventilator Management

• Surgical Nutrition

• Delirium

• Many others

Surgical Critical Care Research

• Conducted quarterly

• Research project formulation

• Presentation rehearsal for upcoming meetings

• Longitudinal tracking of Department Projects

Surgical Critical Care M&M

• Team discussion of Cases

• Mortality Determination

  • Preventable

  • Potentially Preventable

  • Non-Preventable

Surgical Critical Care Grand Rounds

• Monthly Presentation by the fellows

• Hone presentation skills

• Gain vital expertise on a given topic

Surgical Critical Care and Critical Care Medicine Joint Conference

• Case presentations

• Interdisciplinary discussion

• Monthly Discussions

Evidence Based Medicine Conference

• Last Wednesday of the Month

• Presentation of Guidelines Updated of Created by residents, fellows, pharmacists, etc.

• Posted on www.surgicalcriticalcare.net

• Fellowship Requirement of 6 guidelines updated or created during the academic year

Professional Development 

• Administration

• Legal Issues

• ICU Direction

• Billing and Coding

• Hospice Care

• Practice management

• Quality Initiatives

  • Trauma Quality Committee

  • Active Participation of fellows in our TQM process

    • Monthly

• Burn/Trauma ICU Quality Triad

  • Multidisciplinary Unit Team

  • ICU Director, Nursing operations Manager

  • ICU Fellows

  • Nursing, RT, Pharmacy, Nutrition representatives

  • THIS Team determines Unit operations and improvement

• GEMBA Concept