Cyndi Zarbano – Advanced Management of Complex and Critically Ill Patients

Master Critical Care Skills Seminar will give you a solid foundation while also incorporating tips, timesavers and other helpful information. and stories about real nurses who make a difference in their patient’s lives.

Cyndi Zarbano – Advanced Management of Complex and Critically Ill Patients

Description

Master Critical Care Skills Seminar will give you a solid foundation while also incorporating tips, timesavers and other helpful information. and stories about real nurses who make a difference in their patient’s lives. This seminar will help you master the concepts of Care for the critically ill and Become an expert in your clinical practice. Advanced concepts in critical care and interventions, including:

• Critical Care Certification Review
• The core content for advanced critical-care nurses
• Advanced Cardiology care/hemodynamics
• Advanced Neurological care
• Mechanical ventilation management

OUTLINE

Get to Know Hemodynamics Today

• Cardiac Output = Stroke Volume x Heart Rate
  • You can learn the components by using a simple analogy and Finally!
• Preload and Afterload and Contractility
• Stabilizing the mathematical equation can be done by manipulating it

Crisis: The ICU Trio

• IV Fluids – choosing the right one
• 5 Pressor agents: How they work and when to use them
  • Blood products FFP, Platelets, PRBC’s and Cryoprecipitate

Hemodynamic waveforms: How to decode them and

Correctly Measuring Everybody

• Evaluation clues for hemodynamic instability
• Central Venous Pressures
• Arterial Lines
• Swan Ganz Catheters

Nursing Personnel Can Use Mechanical Ventilation

• How to manage patients using ventilators
• Avoid Ventilator Acquired Pneumonia (VAP).
• CPAP/BiPAP

Avoid Shock

• Assessment and Management of:
  • Cardiogenic shock
  • Septic Shock
  • Hypovolemic Shock

Take care of the neuropatient

• Use the following “5-point Neuro Check” To quickly identify any changes in your condition
• Stroke and Stabilization
  • Ischemic
  • Hemorrhagic
  • Delirium
  • How to assess & intervene

Life-EKG Changes that Threaten: Clues Starting at 12-Lead

• Spectrum of Ischemia of the coronary arteries
• 5-Step method to find myocardial ischemia and injury
• STEMI and NSTEMI – What’s the difference?
• Location, location, location!

End-of-ICU Life Care

• The needs of The patient
• Here are some practical tips for your patients and Families with the end-of-life journey

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OBJECTIVES

• Summarize differences between contractility and preload and Afterload is a component that can impact cardiac output.
• Recognize the correct places to measure CVP, Arterial Line and Waveforms of the wedge
• Differentiate between hypotonic, isotonic and Hypertonic IV fluids and When each of them is most effective.
• Recognize the blood products of Disseminated intravascular coagulopathy is an option.
• Compare the differences between hypovolemic and septic shock and Cardiovascular shock is both assessed and treatment priorities.
• Identify two ways to increase the ventilator patient’s oxygenation status.
• Compare and contrast CPAP and BiPAP and their target populations.
• 5 common causes of delirium.
• Recognize the differences between a STEMI and a STEMI and NSTEMI.
• Recognize the top three concerns that patients have at the end of life.

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