Raising Lazarus: Comprehensive Post Cardiac Arrest Care (PCA) in the Comatose Patient

Activity Summary

Required reading for all learners: Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes

Foundational and advanced complex interventions related to post arrest care must be prioritized in the immediate recovery period. Effective January 1, 2022, The Joint Commission performance standards and metrics must be integrated into hospital-based protocols to provide comprehensive interdisciplinary care in comatose survivors of cardiac arrest. This session focuses on interventions targeting the brain and heart in an effort to reduce the impact of cardiac arrest and ameliorate post cardiac arrest syndrome (PCAS).

Objectives

Describe the four distinct pathologies that encompass PCAS.
Relate the 2022 Joint Commission Performance Standards on Post Cardiac Arrest (PCA) to the team priorities in managing the comatose post arrest patient.
Prioritize the timed interventions supporting the brain/heart during the initial 72 hours PCA including targeted temperature management (TTM) and hemodynamic optimization.

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 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.

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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.