Dra. Mª Victoria García

She has collaborated in scientific journals and participated in research projects in Andalusia and London.

Duties performed: I started my training as an intensivist. During this period I have learnt and acquired competences in:

• Initial assessment and first care of the critical patient in all modalities, both acute and chronic patients.
• Screening of patients requiring admission to the ICU for those who may benefit from treatment on the ward.
• Multiple techniques necessary in my daily care work (central line cannulation, percutaneous tracheostomies, thoracocentesis, pericardiocentesis, implantation of transient pacemakers). Management of mechanical ventilation.
• Management of renal replacement techniques, management of liver clearance (MARS).
• Use of complementary diagnostic techniques: basic general and cardiac echocardiography. Pacemaker monitoring.
• Management of different types of postoperative procedures (neurosurgery, liver surgery, complex abdominal surgery, thoracic surgery, plastic surgery, maxillofacial surgery, cardiovascular surgery) and liver transplants, pancreas and kidney-pancreas transplants.

Complementary training

• Basic Life Support and Semiautomatic Defibrillation Instructor (2015). Course endorsed by the National CPR plan and SMICYUC.
• Degree in Good Clinical Practice Training (2013). London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. University of London.
• Clinical Simulation in the Management of Hyponatremia, Hospital la Fe (Valencia) March 2016.
• Course on extracorporeal clearance in critically ill patients with renal dysfunction. March 2016
• Emergency ultrasound: FAST protocol, BLUE protocol, echocardiography, vascular ultrasound. April 2016
• Continuous training course for Residents on Infection in the critically ill patient. November 2015
• Treatment of coagulopathy in patients with critical haemorrhage. December 2015
• Fundamentals of Respiration and Ventilation. March 2014
• Monitoring in the ICU. June 2014
• Fundamentals of Intensive Care (Fundamental Critical Care Support) Society of Critical Care Medicine California), held in Madrid and endorsed by SOMIAMA in November 2013.
• Training in Advanced Life Support. October 2012
• Course on Infective Endocarditis. March 2012
• Seminar on main modes of Mechanical Ventilation. Mechanical Ventilation Club

Most relevant congresses and publications

• LI National Congress of the Spanish Society of Intensive Care Medicine, Critical Care and Coronary Units. Valencia. June 2016
• XXXV Congress of the Andalusian Society of Intensive Care Medicine and Coronary Units. Malaga. March 2016
• XXVII National Congress of the Spanish Society of Emergency Medicine. Zaragoza. June 2015
• X Pan-American and Iberian Congress of Critical Medicine and Intensive Care. Madrid. June 2014

Research activity

• From 2012 to the present, I have participated as co-investigator in the CRASH3 study: International Multicentre Study coordinated by the London School of Public Health.
• From 2015 to the present, I have been participating in the Andalusian project for the monitoring and recording of Therapeutic Effort Limitations in Intensive Care Units. In my centre I have been responsible for data collection.