2-Day: Cardiac Diagnostics and Interventions Course

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Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.

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Speaker

Paul Langlois, APN, PhD, CCRN, CCNS Related seminars and products

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Paul Langlois, APN, PhD, CCRN, CCNS, is a critical care clinical specialist in the surgical, medical, neurologic, burn, CCU, and trauma ICUs of Cook County Hospital, Chicago. Drawing on over 40 years of experience assessing and managing patients with life-threatening diseases, Dr. Langlois provides advanced-level training to nurses, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, respiratory therapists, and physicians.

Dr. Langlois is committed to providing the highest quality of care to patients through advanced education. His presentations are evidence-based, timely, and provide participants with numerous case studies to facilitate critical thinking. As a bedside clinical nurse specialist, he has developed several institution-wide protocols for the multidisciplinary assessment and management of infectious disease and multi-system organ failure patients.

His presentations are enthusiastically delivered and offer highly practical tips that help make the most challenging concepts easy to understand. Linking knowledge to clinical practice is the goal of every educational program.  

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Paul Langlois has employment relationships with Cook County Hospital and Emergency Care Consultants. He receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Paul Langlois is a member of the American Nurses Association, the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, and the Society of Critical Care Medicine.

Additional Info

For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time and complete the CE quiz and evaluation within one week. You will have access for 90 days after the program for review.

Please note: Each day there will be a 70-minute lunch and two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch and break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion. A more detailed schedule is available upon request.

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Objectives

1. Distinguish the need for invasive and noninvasive cardiac interventions and diagnostic tests.
2. Determine how SARS-CoV-2 affects the heart both acute and chronically.
3. Investigate medications which impact every cardiac intervention.
4. Practice patient preparation and aftercare of cardiac interventions and diagnostics.
5. Analyze cardiac laboratory parameters for the cardiac patient.
6. Evaluate genetic diagnostics which are either directly or indirectly linked to cardiac conditions.
7. Interpret normal and abnormal echocardiographic results.
8. Appraise common medications which affect echocardiographic findings.
9. Analyze the need for CT, MRI, PET scan and angiography.
10. Formulate a monitoring plan for your patient who received an intra-aortic balloon pump or ventricular assist device.
11. Differentiate the types of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
12. Distinguish the need for a permanent pacemaker and implantable cardiac defibrillator cardioverter.
13. Evaluate the patient selection criteria for transcatheter aortic valve replacement and open-heart surgery.

Outline

• What you must know when looking at a 12-lead ECG
• When medications do not work – now what?
• Six red flags which indicate greater testing is required

• Troponins
• B-type natriuretic peptide
• D-dimer
• Electrolytes
• Thyroid function
• Lipid panel
• Arterial blood gas interpretation
• Urine for catecholamines and protein

• Inherited cardiac genetic tests for arrhythmias, pulmonary hypertension, familial hypercholesterolemia & more
• Risk stratification of the cardiac condition for potential parents
• What are the therapeutic options based on genetic test?

• When to order an ECHO – what does this really tell the practitioner?
• Five steps to ECHO cardiogram interpretation
• The ECHO colors tell you so much
• What do ECHO bubble studies inform us about the heart

• Chest radiograph – what do you need to look for in your cardiac patient?
• Computerized tomography
• Magnet resonance imaging of the heart
• Cardiac angiography – it is more than just vessels
• Positron emission tomography – what will this test tell you?

• Cardiac catheterization –clarity of blood flow
• Balloon angioplasty and stent placement – difference in the type of stents?
• Cardioversion and ablation – patient selection criteria is vital
• MAZE procedure
• Cardiac stress testing – the dos and don’ts
• Mechanical thrombectomy – patient assessment pre- and post-procedure
• Valvular treatments: transcatheter aortic valve replacement, balloon valvuloplasty and open-heart surgery

• Intra-aortic balloon pump considerations
• Ventricular assist device - not just for the ICU patient anymore
• Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation – selecting between the three types
• Impella Heart Pump: indications, contraindications and monitoring
• Pacemaker and implantable cardiac defibrillator cardioverter; some ICD are MRI compatible (PROMeNADe study)

Target Audience

• Nurse Practitioners
• Physician Assistants
• Clinical Nurse Specialists
• Nurses
• Interventional Cardiac Technologists
• Stress Test Technicians
• Exercise Physiologists
• Physicians