Hemodynamics: Beyond the Basics

Description

Student comments about this course

Excellent class, I am strictly nights, but loved the class, great info Good case studies Excellent! This was very good. Excellent instructor. Good patient examples. Good cartoons! I really liked the way the case studies were incorporated into the lecture. They really helped to reinforce the course content for me. Very enjoyable lecture. Thank you!

Appropriate interpretation of hemodynamic values is essential to clinical practice.  This one-day course is an excellent in-depth look at hemodynamics in relation to various forms of shock, sepsis, multi-system organ failure, and many other cardiac conditions.  It explores the critical concepts and interpretation of hemodynamic values crucial to client treatment.  Nurses who wish to enhance basic hemodynamic skills will benefit from this course.  This course is designed to build on the information in Beginning Hemodynamics:  Essential Skills for the Critical Care Nurse.  Educational modalities include lecture, case studies, team interpretation and discussion.

Objectives

Upon completion of Hemodynamics:  Beyond the Basics, the learner will:

• Discuss the components of cellular oxygen delivery
• Identify the components of myocardial oxygen consumption
• Define treatment considerations for cardiac index
• Analyze the hemodynamic differences of the phases of shock
• Relate new treatment interventions for sepsis to the management of sepsis hemodynamics
• Summarize the role of SIRS
• Identify hemodynamic complications of a patient with acute myocardial infarction
• Demonstrate how hemodynamic monitoring changes with open heart surgery
• Differentiate hemodynamic characteristics for various valvular disorders

Course Outline

• Normal Physiology
• Pathological System Challenges: Cause and Effect
• Shock
• Sepsis
• Acute Coronary Syndromes
• Valvular Heart Defects
  

Total Contact Hours - 6.6