This course is designed to provide anesthesia technology students with the skills required to care competently and safely for critically ill patient. It focuses on having the students expand their knowledge base and master critical care psychomotor skills associated with assessment and provision of comprehensive critical care for patient with acute life threatening conditions and attitudes through reflection in and on action in clinical settings. It also focuses on the application of immediate rapid and accurate assessment and provision of quality critical care according to priorities. It enable the students to provide comprehensive quality care for critically ill patient with different body system alterations, with different types of invasive devices and with different types of machines encountered in critical care settings and to understand the critical care environment in which practice occurs in order to provide care for the critically ill patients in the different critical care settings. Critical thinking, clinical judgment, decision making and team work are emphasized in this course.