Advanced Management of Complex and Critically Ill Patients by Cyndi Zarbano
Duration:6 Hours 19 Minutes | Format:Audio and Video
Description
The Critical Care Skills Workshop will give you a solid foundation by bringing together time-saving tips and stories of real-life nurses who are changing the lives of their patients. This seminar will teach you to master the concepts of intensive care and become an expert in your clinical practice. Learn advanced concepts of critical care and intervention, including:
Critical Aid Certification Review
Essential Content for Advanced Intensive Care Nurses
Advanced Cardiac Surgery / Hemodynamics
Advanced neurological care
Mechanical ventilation control
CIRCUIT
Understand Hemodynamics Today
Cardiac output = heart rate x stroke volume
Use a simple analogy to examine the components and finally get it
Preload, afterload and contractility
Manipulating a mathematical equation to stabilize
A trio of resuscitators in crisis!
IV fluids – choosing the right option for a given situation
5 pressor agents – how they work, when to use them
Blood products! Plasma, platelets and PRBC cryoprecipitate
Demystify hemodynamic signals and
Correct Measurement Of Each Of Them
Assessment of signs of hemodynamic instability
Central Venous Pressure
Arterial Lines
Swan Ganz catheters
Artificial lung ventilation for nurses
How to manage patients on ventilators
Avoiding mechanical ventilation of acquired pneumonia (VAP)
Using CPAP or BiPAP
Shock Control
Assessment and management:
Cardiogenic shock
septic shock
Hypovolemic Shock
Neuro Patient Management
Use the “5-point Neuro-Check” to easily identify changes in state
Travel and stabilization
Ischemic
Hemorrhagic
Rave
How to evaluate and intervene
Life-threatening ECG changes: lead 12 prompts
Coronary artery ischemia spectrum
5-step method for detecting ischemia and myocardial injury
STEMI and NSTEMI – what’s the difference?
Location, location, location!
End of life care in the intensive care unit
Patient needs
Practical advice to help your patients and families at the end of their life
GOALS
Sum the difference between preload, contractility, and afterload as components affecting cardiac output.
Determine the correct sites for measuring CVP, arterial line and wedge signals.
Distinguish between hypotonic, isotonic and hypertonic intravenous fluids and when each of them is considered the most effective.
Recognize the blood product of choice for disseminated intravascular coagulopathy.
Compare the difference between hypovolemic shock, septic shock, and cardiovascular shock in both assessment and treatment priorities.
Identify two ways to improve the oxygenation status of a ventilated patient.
Compare and contrast CPAP and BiPAP and their target populations.
Condition 5 common causes of delirium.
Determine the difference between St-AMI and AMI without ST-segment elevation.
Recognize the three biggest problems that patients admit at the end of their lives.
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Course Features
- Lectures 0
- Quizzes 0
- Duration Lifetime access
- Skill level All levels
- Language English
- Students 170
- Assessments Yes
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