- Faculty:
- Sean G. Smith
- Duration:
- 6 Hours 14 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
- Oct 19, 2017
Description
Outline
How will you improve patient outcomes?
- Failure to rescue and how to avoid it
- Increasing your confidence in emergent situations
- Planning for the worst at every patient encounter
- Advocating for your patient
- Communicating high-risk information clearly
- Mental strategies for success
- Cognitive pre-planning
- How the fire service relates to preparation for success
Risk Reduction
- Recognizing risk for clinical decline
- How to intervene before an event
- Why respiratory rate matters
- Know your strengths and have a plan to handle your weaknesses
- Assemble your team
Common Emergency Conditions
- The steps you can take to save lives
- The 3 highest priority interventions for each
- Common Emergency Conditions
- Cardiac Arrest
- Choking/Dislodged tracheostomy
- Major Trauma
- Control of hemorrhage
- Sepsis
- GI Bleed
- Neurology
- CVA/TIA: Acute Ischemic & Hemorrhagic
- Seizure
- Subarachnoid bleed
- Intracranial hypertension
- Is that blood pressure of 170/90 truly dangerous?
- Cardiology
- Dysrhythmias
- Ventricular fibrillation
- Ventricular tachycardia vs. Asystole
- SVT
- Rapid atrial fibrillation/flutter
- Why is my patient tachycardic?
Prioritization & Practice
- What matters most when the patient crashes
- How to practice every day in 2 minutes or less
- Why sick is sick until proven otherwise
Team Preparation
- Who is coming to help you?
- Team dynamics
- What if you’re alone?
Cognitive Error
- Which came first, the MI or the MVA?
- Don’t put the cart before the horse
Putting it Together: Skills Lab & Clinical Scenarios
- Group review of patient cases
- Practice with instructor feedback
- Use of “preparation sheet”
Faculty
Sean G. Smith, C-EFM, C-NPT, FP-C, TP-C, RNC-NIC, CEN, CFRN, CPEN, CCRN-CMC (Adult), CCRN-K (Neonatal), CCRN-K (Pediatric) Related seminars and products: 11
Critical-Care Professionals International
Sean G. Smith, C-EFM, C-NPT, FP-C, TP-C, RNC-NIC, CEN, CFRN, CPEN, CCRN-CMC (Adult), CCRN-K (Neonatal), CCRN-K (Pediatric), is a flight nurse-paramedic who has practiced and taught Trauma Care, Tactical Medicine, Emergency/Critical Care and Prehospital Emergency Medical Services, both in the military and the civilian world. He holds degrees in nursing and molecular biology, is a graduate of Duke University’s Legal Nurse Consulting program and is currently pursuing a master’s degree through the University of Florida College of Pharmacy. He holds multiple advanced specialty certifications as well as extensive instructor qualifications in critical care and emergency medicine.
Career highlights include numerous author/co-author credits, including: a best-selling Laboratory Medicine textbook, a chapter on Shock in Trauma Nursing Core Curriculum, and a section in the newly released Resuscitation Crisis Manual. Sean consults on clinical, legal and certification prep for numerous high-profile hospital systems (Yale, Mayo…). He routinely lectures at national/international conferences, has completed 50 medical missions (Dominican Republic, Honduras, Morocco, Liberia, and Haiti), and medical support to the NASA Space Shuttle Program.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Sean G. Smith receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Non-financial: Sean G. Smith has no relevant non-financial relationships to disclose.
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