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Teaching led by a practising intensivist

Dr Yasser Younis A Tolba is a Senior Consultant Intensivist and ECMO specialist who directs and instructs on 24 critical care, anaesthesia and pain courses across the UK, Europe, the USA and the Gulf.

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Dr Yasser Younis A Tolba

MB ChB (Honours), DA, MSc, PhD, FCAI, FRCA, EDIC, EDAIC, FCICM, FCCP, FIPP, FCCM, MBA

Dr Yasser Younis A Tolba is a Senior Consultant Intensivist and ECMO specialist, working in organ transplant and general critical care at King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre in Riyadh. He is also Associate Professor at the College of Medicine, Alfaisal University.

Alongside clinical practice he directs and instructs on critical care, anaesthesia and pain courses internationally — programmes run with the Society of Critical Care Medicine in the United States, courses endorsed by the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, and the Royal College of Surgeons' CCrISP course in the United Kingdom.

Critical Care Academy brings that teaching together in one place, so that the courses he already delivers to units and training programmes are available to clinicians wherever they work.

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Courses directed

Where the teaching comes from

Courses and conferences Dr Tolba directs or instructs on, with the societies and institutions behind them.

Critical care

  • Best of SCCM — Society of Critical Care Medicine, USA
  • ICU Made Easy — KFSHRC
  • Haemodynamics Course — KFSHRC / ESICM
  • Fluid Therapy Course — SCCS
  • Multi-professional Critical Care Review Course — SCCM, USA
  • Advanced Airway Management Course — SCCS
  • Airway Management, Beyond BASIC — endorsed by ESICM
  • Critical Care Hepatology Course
  • Primary Trauma Foundation (PTF) Course — UK
  • Emergency Neurological Life Support (ENLS) Course — USA
  • Critical Care Nephrology, Beyond BASIC — endorsed by ESICM
  • BASIC Course — endorsed by the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM)
  • Mechanical Ventilation, Beyond BASIC — endorsed by ESICM
  • CCrISP (Care of the Critically Ill Surgical Patient) — Royal College of Surgeons, UK
  • FCCS (Fundamental Critical Care Support) — SCCM, USA
  • FDM (Fundamental Disaster Management) — SCCM, USA
  • Critical Care for the Transplant Patient — KFSHRC
  • ICU Training Bootcamp Course — KFSHRC

Anaesthesia

  • Enhanced Recovery after Surgery (ERAS)
  • Difficult Airway Management
  • Thoracic Anaesthesia

Pain

  • Acute and Chronic Pain Management
  • Interventional and cadaveric pain course / workshop

Life support

  • ACLS — Instructor

Approach

How the teaching is built

Four principles shape every course in the catalogue.

Clinician-led

Every module is written and delivered by a practising intensivist, not adapted from someone else's material.

Bedside-first

Teaching starts from the decision you actually have to make, then works back to the physiology and the evidence behind it.

Team-wide

Material is pitched for doctors, nurses and specialists together, without diluting the clinical detail for any of them.

Kept current

Courses are reviewed and updated as guidance and practice change, and existing learners keep access to the revisions.

Teaching for your department?

Courses can be delivered to trusts, departments and training programmes as closed sessions, in person or online. Get in touch to discuss dates, group sizes and tailoring the syllabus to your team.