University Hospital Monklands - Intensive Care Medicine (2024)

Individual placement description

Intensive Care Medicine

F1

West

University Hospital Monklands, Airdrie

Dayshifts in ITU

• Attend handover
• Review patients daily, and as required
• Ward round, tasks and referrals as required
• Interpret results, prescribe in liaison with consultant
• Procedures as required
• Liaise with MDT – pharmacy, ANP, physiotherapy, nursing, medical
• Update patients and families

On call is for general medicine.

Organisation and completion of tasks

Recognition of critically ill patient

Scoring/assessing severity of illness

Respond to variety of acute medical emergencies with consultant present

Support of failing organ systems

Management of complex prescribing and polypharmacy

Requesting of appropriate imaging, Interpretation of imaging

Attend ward round and formulate management plans under consultant supervision

Procedures: cannulation, urinary catheterisation, NG tubes, DC cardioversion, arterial lines etc. Central lines as available. Can attend theatre for advanced airway skills.

Liaise with other specialties

Rehabilitation planning

Weekly MDT – case discussion, M&M, QI projects, Datix review

On call (medicine) offers opportunities to clerk in acute unselected general medial admissions, start initial treatment and formulate management plans

• Mandatory protected weekly teaching mapped to FY curriculum
• Wednesday hospital grand rounds
• Weekly ITU MDT
• Weekly ITU teaching
• Monthly CME (anaesthetics and ITU)

Gain experience in managing acute medical/surgical emergencies while under close supervision.

Plenty of opportunities to learn procedures under direct supervision.

Opportunity to become skilled at basic airway management and an introduction to advanced airway management.