Apheresis in the Critical Care Patient: What It Is and Why Your Patient Could Need It

Activity Summary

Required reading for all learners: Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes

This session provides a foundation for understanding why therapeutic apheresis, also known as PLEX or plasmapheresis, is ordered for the critical care patient. This procedure may be necessary for many reasons, but in the acutely ill critical care patient it can lifesaving. This session uncovers what it is and what you need to know before, during and after the apheresis procedure is completed.

Objectives

Identify the preprocedural bloodwork required prior to any apheresis procedure.
Correlate the potential for hemodynamic instability and potential side effects during or after an apheresis procedure.
Explain what apheresis is and which acute diagnoses within the critical care areas would benefit from the procedure.

Continuing Education Disclosure Statement

Successful Completion

Learners must attend/view/read the entire activity, read Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes, and complete the associated evaluation to be awarded the contact hours or CERP. 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.

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.

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.

AACN programming meets the standards for most states that require mandatory continuing education contact hours for license and/or certification renewal. AACN recommends consulting with your state board of nursing or credentialing organization before submitting CE to fulfill continuing education requirements.

Refund Policy

Continuing Education Activities are nonrefundable.