Critical Care Psychiatry: A Novel Frontier Within Proactive and Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry: September 2025

Critical Care Psychiatry: A Novel Frontier Within Proactive and Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry: September 2025 is organized by Healio.

Release date:  September 1, 2025.
Expiration Date:  September 30, 2028.

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify the multifactorial pathophysiology of delirium in critically ill patients, the risk factors associated with its development, and effective evidence-based interventions to prevent and manage delirium in the intensive care unit (ICU) setting.
2. Describe the assessment of dyspnea in critically ill patients, the neurobiological and clinical links between dyspnea and anxiety, and the key management principles relevant to the critical care psychiatrist.
3. Manage acute stress disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder in critically ill patients by identifying risk factors, considering differential diagnoses, and applying evidence-based interventions during and after ICU care.
4. Define post-intensive care syndrome and common forms of critical illness–related physical, cognitive, and psychiatric morbidity.