Description
Duration:
120 minutes including a Q&A
Includes:
• A certificate of completion
• The on-demand recording to watch at your convenience, for at least one year
• A handout in PDF format for viewing or self-printing
Objectives:
• Overview of Hypovolemic shock and treatment
• Overview of Cardiogenic Shock and treatment
• Overview of Obstruction Shock and various treatments including
• Aortic dissection
• Cardiac Tamponade
• Pulmonary embolus
Description:
As a final common pathway or numerous disease states, the early clinical signs of shock can be somewhat non-specific, and as such, can be a contributing factor to the high mortality rates for certain kinds of shock. The nurse can play a key role in identifying shock by the pairing the clinical history with early recognition of symptoms. With high mortality rates for septic shock, which is is on the increase, and even higher mortality rates for cardiogenic shock, every nurse needs to know the differences between the several kinds of shock that may present in patients, regardless of the setting. This webinar series will review pathophysiology, signs, symptoms, the objective of early, acute and intensive treatment, and various nursing interventions.
Who Should Attend?:
• Acute Care Nurses in All Clinical Settings
• ER and ICU Nurses; Rural ER Nurses; EMT’s
• Perioperative & Perinatal Nurses
• Cardiac Nurses and Allied Cardiac Staff in a Variety of Settings
• Nurse Practitioners, Educators, Managers
• Physiotherapists; RRT’s; Perfusionists
Christopher Coltman, RN, BScN
Christopher Coltman, a graduate of the UofA Bachelor of Science in Nursing program, has been engaged in cardiac and cardiovascular surgical nursing for over 25 years. He has worked in a variety or settings and countries, including Montreal, London (England) and in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He has extensive experience in the area of acute coronary syndrome, heart failure and cardiovascular surgery. Chris is well known as an excellent teacher, having over 17 years of teaching experience, and has taught a number of sessions on a variety of topics where his passion for teaching and cardiac care shows. He is currently the Clinical Nurse Educator in the Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit at the Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary.
