• 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.

    Trauma related topics

  • 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

    General 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

    Analyzing Lab Results

  • 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

    Special Patient Populations

  • 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

    Triage Topics

  • 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