Session Summary
So, the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO) wants your ECMO patient to walk, but isn’t very explicit about how to make that happen. Fortunately, at this session you can learn about a large academic medical center’s long-term initiative to mobilize awake ECMO patients, and the resulting increase in survival, decrease in posterior pressure injuries and increased disposition to home. This concurrent session reviews the new ELSO Early Rehabilitation and Mobility program guidelines and discusses what resources are necessary to develop and implement this program safely and effectively.
Objectives
- Prepare a detailed overview of an awake ECMO program and its pivotal role in the success of implementing early mobility guidelines.
- Discuss the link between an early mobility protocol and a decreased risk of discharge to long-term care hospitals with ECMO patients.
- Identify key strategies to implement ELSO’s early mobility and rehabilitation guideline for ECMO patients, beginning with verticalization.
Topics
ECMO
Population
Adult
Role
Staff
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Successful Completion
Learners must complete the entire activity and the associated evaluation to be awarded contact hours AND read Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes. No partial credit will be awarded.
Accreditation
The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider number CEP 1036, for 1.00 contact hours.
Disclosure
Any relevant relationship between an ineligible company and an individual with the ability to influence clinical content will be identified by the Nurse Planner within the activity. Any relevant relationship between an ineligible company and an individual with the ability to influence clinical content has been mitigated.
Accreditation refers to recognition of continuing education only and does not imply AACN, ANCC, or CBRN approval or endorsement of any commercial products discussed or displayed in conjunction with this educational activity.
Activities with pharmacology hours are to assist the APRN in fulfilling the pharmacotherapeutic education requirements for licensure and certification renewals.
Activities meet the standards for most states that require mandatory continuing education for license and/or certification renewal. AACN recommends consulting with your own state board of nursing or credentialing organization before submitting your certificate of completion.
Refund Policy
Continuing Education Activities are nonrefundable.