Intensive Care Specialist

Description

Investigates, diagnoses and treats patients in need of intensive and critical care.

Description

Investigate, diagnose and treat complex medical conditions chiefly concerning internal human disorders and diseases using specialist testing, diagnostic and medical techniques, and provide medical input into managing public health issues and infectious disease outbreaks and control measures.

Tasks include

• Examines and manages critically ill patients with life-threatening organ system failure, those at risk of clinical deterioration, as well as those requiring resuscitation
• Manages patients in an intensive care or high dependency unit, and maintains precise patient records
• Monitors and adjusts ventilation settings for patients on life support, and prescribes and administers medications and treatments
• Requests laboratory tests and diagnostic procedures, and analyses results with other medical information to make diagnoses
• Oversees end-of-life care and the diagnosis of brain death