- Clinical Topics
Here are a number of clinical topics that may be considered for various medical conferences or may be combined to make a one, two or three day seminar. The majority of the topics are approximately one hour in length.
- Zapped - Pathophysiology and care of the patient with electrical burns
- Coming face to face with maxillofacial trauma
- Go boom, fall down - Ballistics, gunshot wounds, and the human body
- Fluid controversies: crystalloids versus colloids versus blood products
- The trauma triad of death - acidosis, hypothermia and coagulopathies
- Out with the old, in with the new - current controversies in emergency and trauma nursing
- The holy grail of shock - endpoints to fluid resuscitation
- Go Boom, fall Down - The biomechanics of trauma
- Mass casualty trauma
- A "shocking" look at cellular hypoxia - shock syndromes
- Chest and abdominal trauma
- Complications of trauma - sepsis, SIRS and MODS
- Humpty Dumpty had a great fall - traumatic brain injury
- You're getting on my nerves - spinal cord injuries
- Dealing with the burning issues of burn trauma
- Forensics and the trauma patient
- Everyone's worst nightmare - trauma and the pregnant patient
Trauma related topics
- It's all shades of gray to me - Recognizing abnormalities on the chest x-ray for nurses
- Abuse and the adult patient - incidence, recognition and treatment
- Arterial blood gas interpretation for the ABG challenged
- Frozen back to life - A look at therapeutic hypothermia
- When things go bad - care of the patient and family in crisis
- Nursing across cultural lines - A look at various cultures and the impact this has on nursing care.
- Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy
- Putting the vital back in vital signs
- Understanding renal failure
- Managing ethical dilemmas
- Interpreting lab reports
- The ins and outs of chest tubes
- Understanding sepsis
- Five easy steps to rhythm strip analysis
- "Tricyï" patients - bariatrics, pediatrics, geriatrics
General Topics
- Unraveling the alphabet soup of hematology studies
- CSI (Culture and Sensitivity Investigation) - understanding infectious disease labs
- The investigation continues - Serological testing
- The positives and negatives of electrolyte imbalances
- Clearing the junk - renal function studies
- More alphabet soup - Liver function tests
- Plugging the mysteries of coagulation studies
- Heart smarts - lab tests related to cardiology function
- Making sense of ABGs
- How sweet it is - blood glucose testing
- Testing through the ages - lab tests across the life span
- Case studies in laboratory analysis
Analyzing Lab Results
- Care of the pregnant patient
- Care of the pediatric patient
- Caring for difficult patients and families
- Care of the bariatric patient
- Cultural diversity
- Care of the geriatric patient
- Care of the dying patient
- Ethically challenging patients
- Care of the patient with psychiatric disturbances
- Care of the patient with substance abuse disorder
Special Patient Populations
- Fundamentals of triage - Mastering the seven steps of triage
- Triaging during a disaster
- Triaging ocular disorders
- Triaging disorders of the nose and ears
- Triaging disorders of the mouth, nose and neck
- Triaging disorders of the head
- Triaging disorders of the chest
- Triaging disorders of the abdomen
- Triaging the pregnant patient
Triage Topics
