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CRIT5004: Physiology for Critical Care
2027 unit information
This unit addresses key physiology requirements of the Primary or First Part examinations of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists, the College of Intensive Care Medicine, and the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine. The course explores the mechanisms that maintain physiological regulation and homeostasis in health, as well as the physiological changes associated with ageing, obesity, mechanical ventilation, and common disease states encountered in critically ill patients. By the end of the course, students will have developed a deeper understanding of the physiological mechanisms that maintain homeostasis in health and disease, strengthened their ability to apply physiological concepts to clinical reasoning in acute and critical care settings, and gained the skills to critically engage with emerging developments in physiology and clinical practice.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Medicine and Health
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Critical Care |
| Credit points | 6 |
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None |
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None |
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None |
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This unit of study is only available to medical graduates and available to allied health professionals via special permission |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Demonstrate a high level of understanding of the physiological major body systems, how they work together, and how these systems would normally respond to the typical insults that result in critical illness
- LO2. Understand how a normal system can respond, increasing the ability to analyse if patients are responding appropriately to a critical insult, or if they are decompensating
- LO3. Analyse how our treatments constrain normal responses and reverse ineffective responses, and how to maintain system homeostasis (such as during anaesthesia and mechanical ventilation).
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Semester 2 2027
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Online | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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