264337 Intensive Care Specialist

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• Intensive Care Medicine Specialist
• Intensivist

This occupation has a skill level corresponding to the qualifications and experience below.

Australia

• Skill Level 1: Bachelor Degree, higher qualification, or at least five years of relevant experience

New Zealand

• Skill Level 1: Bachelor Degree, higher qualification, or at least five years of relevant experience

• 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