Critical Care Nursing: Drips, Vents and Hemodynamics
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ICU-level practice on vasoactive titration, ventilator troubleshooting and reading hemodynamic numbers together
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Quizzes
Write intensive care items with dense, internally consistent data: heart rate, arterial blood pressure with mean arterial pressure, central venous pressure, cardiac output and index and systemic vascular resistance where an appropriate monitor is stated, urine output in millilitres per kilogram per hour, lactate, and a full arterial blood gas with pH, carbon dioxide, bicarbonate and oxygen values, plus current…
Tests
Build a critical care assessment weighted 25 percent hemodynamics, covering preload, afterload and contractility, mean arterial pressure and perfusion pressure, monitoring setup, waveform damping and leveling and zeroing, and differentiating hypovolemic, cardiogenic, distributive and obstructive shock from a set of numbers; 25 percent mechanical ventilation, covering modes, the meaning of each setting, high and low…