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Cardiac Emergencies: Quickly Recognize Life-Threatening Dysrhythmias & Manage Your Most Unstable Patients​

Program Information

Outline

Cardiac rhythm review

  • Sinus
  • Atrial
  • Junctional
  • Ventricular
  • Blocks
  • SKILLS: Video presentation
    • Cardioversion
    • Pacing
    • Defibrillation

Commonly prescribed medications

  • Anticoagulants
  • Vasodilators
  • Antiarrythmics
  • Vasopressors
  • Inotropics
  • Miscellaneous agents

Myocardial Ischemia – “Time is muscle”

  • Pathophysiology
  • Cardiac enzymes & diagnostic testing
  • Core measures
  • Risk assessment tools
  • Treatment/interventions
  • SKILLS: Telemetry monitoring
  • EKG lead placement
  • Telemetry packs – 3, 5, and 6-leads

Heart failure

  • Pathophysiology
  • Diagnostic testing
  • Core measures
  • Treatment/interventions
  • SKILLS: Oxygen delivery systems
    • Nasal cannula to CPAP
  • SKILLS: Prevention of respiratory depression/failure
    • Pulse oximetry – how effective is it?
    • End-Tidal CO2 monitoring

Monitoring the post-cardiac catheterization patient

  • Assessment of cath site
  • Monitoring for complications/ hematoma
  • SKILLS: Hemostatic devices
    • Radial access device (e.g., VascBand®)
    • Femoral access device (e.g., FemoStop®)

Trends in patient management

  • Life-Vest
  • WATCHMAN® Device
  • Left Ventricular Assist Device
  • Chest and abdominal drainage systems (e.g., PleurX®)

Objectives

  1. Compare and contrast sinus and atrial rhythms.
  2. Distinguish differences between life-threatening arrhythmias.
  3. Discriminate between indications for medications prescribed on the post-acute cardiac unit.
  4. Assess the post-cardiac catheterization patient to identify potential complications.
  5. Plan appropriate nursing care for the patient with myocardial ischemia.
  6. Formulate a plan to decrease risk of pressure injuries.

Target Audience

Nurses and other Healthcare Professionals

Copyright : 11/10/2017

Cardiac and Respiratory Complexities: Quickly Differentiate to Take Rapid Action​

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Objectives

  1. Breakdown the nursing assessment for patients with airway or ventilatory problems.
  2. Evaluate the pathophysiologic changes that occur causing the signs and symptoms associated with airway or ventilatory problems.
  3. Determine appropriate interventions for airway or ventilatory problems.
  4. Inspect the difference between ventilator modes and the use of NPPV.
  5. Evaluate appropriate treatment strategies for high-risk ECG findings.
  6. Plan for emerging treatments in heart failure.
  7. Analyze management options for acute coronary syndromes.
  8. Communicate the diagnosis, evaluation, and management of inflammatory cardiac disease.

Outline

Hemodynamics

  • Do you need a Swan-Ganz?
  • Preload/Afterload
  • Contractility
  • Cardiac output
  • Cardiac index
  • Mean arterial pressure

Respiratory Diagnoses

  • Will the real cause of SOB please stand up: Complicating the respiratory diagnosis
  • Clinical presentation, signs/symptoms, interventions, management of:
    • Pneumonia
    • Asthma
    • COPD
    • Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
    • Pulmonary embolism (Air, Fat, Amniotic)
  • Anaphylaxis
  • Acute Respiratory Failure
  • Pleural effusions
  • Pneumothorax
  • Foreign body aspiration

Respiratory Interventions and Medications

  • Pharmacology
  • ABGs: Simplifying the numbers
  • Chest Tubes: Indications, set-up, troubleshooting
  • Capnography: Interpreting what it tells us
  • Ventilation and NPPV basics: Modes of ventilation and appropriate uses

Cardiac Diagnoses

  • Bradycardic & tachycardic rhythms: Essentials that you need to know
  • Is This Patient Having an MI?
    • Pericarditis
    • Myocarditis
    • Endocarditis
    • Etiology, Clinical Presentation, ECG changes, Treatment
  • Aortic Stenosis
  • Heart Failure
  • Current best practice recommendations
  • Long-term prognosis

Acute Coronary Syndrome

  • Unstable Angina
  • STEMI
  • Non-STEMI
  • Differentiating the Three

Cardiac Interventions and Medications

  • Pharmacology
    • Vasopressors vs. Inotropes Ace Inhibitors, Beta blockers
    • Anticoagulants
  • Stabilization & Treatment procedures
  • Stents, CABG, LVADS
  • What’s Trending? Current trending technology
  • Case Presentations & Identify Probable Diagnosis

Target Audience

Nurses, Respiratory Care Practitioners and other Health Care Professionals

Copyright : 11/07/2017

The ABCDs of the Cardiac Medicine Cabinet

Program Information

Outline

  • The A’s
    • Ace Inhibitors
    • ARB’s
    • Aldosterone Blockers
    • Anticoagulants
  • The B’s
    • Beta Blockers
  • The C’s
    • Calcium Channel Blockers
  • The D’s
    • Digoxin
    • Diuretics
    • Manipulating Cardiac Output

Objectives

  1. Choose the drug of priority in heart failure patients.
  2. Differentiate the heart protective components of beta blockers.
  3. Analyze the benefits of Factor10A inhibitors and thrombin inhibitors as anticoagulants.
  4. Evaluate the role of platelets in acute coronary syndrome and the importance of platelet inhibitors reducing the risk of infarct.

Target Audience

Nurses

Copyright : 12/06/2017