Cyndi Zarbano – Mastering Lab Interpretation & The Implications for Patient Care

 Learn how to use labs to help you become a patient advocate who is aware of every detail.

 Cyndi Zarbano – Mastering Lab Interpretation & The Implications for Patient Care

Description:

• Understanding the Differential: “Shift to the Left”
• From the Labs, Identify Different Types of Acute Kidney Failure
• Life-Potentially dangerous electrolyte imbalances and interventions
• Master ABG Interpretation A Simple Tool
• Systemic Inflammation of Sepsis: Lactate/Procalcitonin Levels
• Reading Sensitivities and Cultures
• The Living with Liver Failure: Understanding LFTs
• Lab EKG Clues to Differentiate ACS & MI

This interactive seminar will give you a true integrative understanding about lab results and patient outcomes. You will be a CLINICIAN and not a TECHNICIAN. . . Do not be reactive, but PROACTIVE! Discover the hidden clinical clues in labs, and become a patient advocate who is situationally aware.

Join Cyndi ZarbanoMSN, BSN. She will explain both the more common and less commonly seen lab values. We will discuss a variety of labs, their ordering and the implications for patients. You can use critical thinking to plan for the best possible patient outcomes and help you understand the meaning of these values.

OUTLINE

Basic Metabolic Profiles (BMP)

• Glucose
• Acid Base
• Renal Function
• Electrolytes
• Life-threatening Electrolytes
  • Potassium
  • Magnesium
  • Sodium
  • Calcium

Comprehensive Metabolic Panel: Indications Implications

• LFTs: Exploring Liver
• AST/ALT/ALP/Total Bilirubin/Proteins
• Health issues in liver failure
  • Jaundice
  • Ascites
  • Hepatic
  • Encephelopathy

CBC with Differential: Understanding the Components

• What can impact WBC and Neutrophil findings
• Anemias/Polycythemias
• Understanding the Differential
• The Left Shift Explained
• Guidelines for Transfusing Have Changed

Acute Renal Failure: How to Identify the Cause

• Creatinine
• BUN
• BUN/CR ratios
• Glomerular Filtration Rate
• Urine Osmolality
• FENA

Cardiac Labs: Ischemia or Myocardial Infarction

• Cardiac Panels
• EKG Clues Supporting Findings
• How to distinguish STEMI vs.
• BNP
• Pro-BNP

Coagulation/Thrombotic Risk Panels: Clues to Clotting

• The Clotting Cascade
• The Right Lab Try it! for The Medication
• aPTT
• PT
• INR
• D-dimer
• Disseminated intravascular coagulopathy

Urinalysis. Does Your Patient Are you suffering from a UTI

• The most recent guidelines
• Culture

Blood Gases: Identifying the Underlying Abnormality

• Three types of gases
• Interpreting Arterial Blood Gases: It’s Easier Than You Think!
• Venous blood gases
• Mixed Venous Gases

Labs and Sepsis – Taking a team approach

• Cultures, Gram Stains & Sensitivities
• Systematic Inflammation
• Labs of Sepsis
  • The Lactate Levels
  • Procalcitonin Levels
  • WBCs
  • Neutrophils

Lumbar Punctures / Cerebral Spinal Fluid

• Bacterial Meningitis
• Viral Meningitis
• Viral Encephalitis

Understanding thyroid dysfunction

• TSH
• T4 Levels
• T3 Uptake

Differentiating hyperglycemic states

• DKA
• HHS (HHNK)
• Treatment for Each

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OBJECTIVES

1. Analyze the results from Coagulation Studies.
2. Analyze the Complete Blood Count with Differential. Discuss clinical applications (Anemias and Left Shifts. Infections).).
3. Recognize the clinical implications for metabolic panels.
4. Differentiate between life-Potential causes and remedies for electrolyte imbalances that could be dangerous
5. Based on BUN, Creatinine and BUN/CR ratios, you can predict renal function.
6. Interpret the cardiac panel results for a suspected acute coronary infarction.
7. Analyze blood gas analysis and any clinical implications.
8. Based on lumbar puncture findings, distinguish between viral and bacterial meningitis.
9. Recognize the clinical indicators and their implications for An infection during a urinalysis.

Here’s what you’ll get in Cyndi Zarbano – Mastering Lab Interpretation & The Implications for Patient Care