Recategorizing and Managing TBI: From GCS to New Criteria

Activity Summary

Managing patients with severe traumatic brain injury and implementing interventions require ICU nurses to possess knowledge on the theory of TBI and technology used to assess intracranial dynamics, and to work as a team to integrate care across disciplines. Increased ICP and brain oxygenation must be measured; interventions used to enhance CBF/O2 delivery must be prioritized. This presentation focuses on the new guidelines and on integrating the evidence-based guidelines to categorize patients into severe, moderate or minor when managing severe TBI. Critical thinking algorithms are presented and applied to actual case studies.

Objectives

Assess the effects of injury to the brain in the neurologic-injured patient and implement strategies to manage severe TBI.
Reframe TBI severity using new proposed criteria and build new protocols for patient management.
Evaluate TBI patients using noninvasive and invasive multimodality monitoring and apply algorithms to manage patients.

Continuing Education Disclosure Statement

Criteria for Awarding Contact Hours

Learners must complete the entire activity and the associated evaluation AND read Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes. No partial credit will be awarded.

Accreditation

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.

Disclosures

The Nurse Planner has determined that no individuals with the ability to control content of this activity have relevant relationships with ineligible companies.

Activities with pharmacotherapeutic credit are to assist the APRN in fulfilling their education requirements for licensure and certification renewals.

Refund Policy

Continuing Education Activities are nonrefundable.