102: ICU Crisis Management: Critical Care & Ventilator Strategies

Elevate Your Critical Care Expertise—Earn  CEUs with ICU Crisis Management

This comprehensive course is designed for healthcare professionals seeking to deepen their understanding of intensive care unit (ICU) crisis management. It covers essential topics, including mechanical ventilation modalities, patient assessment techniques, arterial blood gas interpretation, and the management of various critical conditions.

Key Learning Objectives:

• Understand the goals and functions of critical care areas.

• Explore indications, physiological effects, hazards, and side effects of ventilation modalities such as SIMV, PEEP, CPAP, PSV, and AMV.

• Identify and interpret pressure, volume, and flow waveforms associated with different ventilation strategies.

• Conduct comprehensive bedside assessments, including neurological, pulmonary, and cardiovascular evaluations.

• Define and explain critical terms related to respiratory distress, such as dyspnea and cyanosis.

• Utilize monitoring devices effectively, including oximeters, CO₂ monitors, arterial lines, Swan-Ganz lines, and CVP lines.

• Analyze arterial blood gas parameters to diagnose conditions like acidosis, alkalosis, hypoxia, and hypercapnia.

• Interpret chest X-rays to identify normal and abnormal findings in bony structures, pleural spaces, heart, diaphragm, lung fields, and airways.

• Manage mechanical ventilation for diseases such as COPD, asthma, ARDS, blunt-chest trauma, post-surgical recovery, myasthenia gravis, Guillain-Barré syndrome, and pulmonary edema.

• Recognize and address factors exacerbating respiratory failure and understand the clinical presentation of patients in respiratory distress.

• Establish airway management procedures and initial ventilator settings for patients in respiratory failure.

• Evaluate readiness for ventilator weaning, considering physiological preparation, cardiovascular status, nutrition, fatigue, and fluid balance.

• Assess spontaneous ventilatory reserve using parameters like arterial blood gases, alveolar-arterial oxygen gradient, peak inspiratory pressure, and more.

Course Features:

• Earn CEUs upon successful completion.

• Flexible, self-paced online format accessible 24/7.

• Designed for respiratory therapists, nurses, and other healthcare professionals involved in critical care.

Enhance your critical care skills and ensure optimal patient outcomes by enrolling in this essential ICU crisis management course.