Entrustable professional activities (EPAs) for postgraduate competency based intensive care medicine training in the Netherlands: The next step towards excellence in intensive care medicine training.

Introduction: The Competency Based Training in Intensive Care Education (CoBaTrICE) programme developed common standards of ICM training by describing competencies of an intensivist. Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) of Intensive Care Medicine (ICM) (EPAsICM) are presented as a new workplace-based assessment tool in competency-based training of intensivists. EPAs are activities to be entrusted to a trainee once he (or she) has attained competence.

Cardiac troponin I release and cytokine response during experimental human endotoxaemia.

Objective: To study the relationship between cytokine levels and cardiac troponin I (cTnI).

Design: Prospective experimental study.

Setting: Intensive care unit of a university hospital.