Taking Stressors out of Pressors: Vasoactive Drip Titration Made Easy in Acute Care

Activity Summary

Required reading for all learners: Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes

This presentation simplifies drip titration and hemodynamics with endpoints such as stroke volume. Indirect indicators such as urine output and BP can be misleading. Vasoactive drips are discussed via case studies. A best-evidence focus on blood flow rather than pressures is used, along with assessing patient response, trending and early signs. Drip titration for conditions such as hypotension and heart failure show patients do not decompensate suddenly; we only tend to recognize it suddenly.

Objectives

Explain fundamental hemodynamic monitoring parameters for drug titration.
Discuss pharmacology of vasoactive core IV drips with optimization strategies, focusing on early signs and value trending.
Review case studies which illustrate key points in treatment of hypotension, heart failure and sepsis.

Continuing Education Disclosure Statement

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 {contactHours} contact hours.

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