IMED-717 Omaha VAMC – Critical Care Medicine
Dr. Craig Piquette and Omaha VA Medical Center ICU Staff
Periods Offered: Each four weeks
Student Limit: 1
Where to Report: Omaha VA Medical Center ICU, 2nd floor, 8:00 a.m. Check with the
Nebraska Supervising Resident for assignment. Call Sheryl Latenser for Attending
Schedule, 943-5515. A Nebraska faculty intensivist is attending every other month
alternating with a Creighton faculty intensivist.
This clerkship offers opportunity for participation in the management of acutely ill patients,
working closely with an ICU supervisory resident, the pulmonary and critical care fellow and
attending physician. As a Subinternship, clinical expectations will include; primary responsibility
for all patients assigned to their care, writing a note each day on their patients to be cosigned by
the supervising resident and attending physician, active participation on rounds, and taking inhouse overnight call with their supervising resident.
NO vacation may be taken during this rotation so students should schedule residency
interviews accordingly.
Learning objectives for this rotation include management of respiratory failure, acute coronary
syndrome, acute and chronic renal failure and hyperglycemia among others. The students will be
expected to learn interpretations of chest radiographs and common dysrhythmias. They will
participate in many bedside procedures and they will be expected to be able to evaluate and
recognize patients with a variety of life threatening disorders and participate in their management.
The student will be enrolled in a Blackboard Critical Care Medicine course and will be expected to
complete the pretest within the first week and the post test prior to the end of the rotation, to read
through all the CCM educational material posted on Blackboard and to attend any scheduled
didactic lectures. Honors work will require enthusiasm and initiative, as well as student
presentations to the CCM team of clinical topics related to clinical problems.
This ICU rotation is appropriate for a motivated student seeking a moderate intensity of critical
care medicine.
Activity: Hours/Week
Rounds: 24
Didactic conferences: 2
Independent learning: Blackboard CCM course, approx. 3 hrs/week
Research project: None
Independent patient care: Not expected
Procedures: 2
8:00 a.m. Didactic Lectures:
Standard Practices in the ICU
Ventilator & Respiratory Protocol
Nutrition
Mechanical Ventilation
Airway Management
Septic Shock/Mechanical Ventilation
Shock/Hemodynamics
Toxicology
Delayne Peterson, R.N.
Frank Freihaut
Barbara Robertson, R.N.
Craig Piquette, M.D.
James Sullivan, M.D.
Peter Murphy, M.D.
Joe Sisson, M.D.
Eduardo Vasquez, M.D.