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Code Blue Training: Life Support Challenges

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Cardiac arrest affects over 600,000 people per year in North America alone. Depending on the circumstances of arrest, 20 to 40 percent of adults who survive to hospital care after resuscitation from cardiac arrest are discharged alive, the majority of whom enjoy favorable functional recovery. Advances in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and post-cardiac arrest care delivery have improved outcomes over time. 

The most immediate threat to survival during the first minutes to hours is cardiovascular collapse. Interventions to optimize blood pressure and maintain brain and other end-organ perfusion (e.g., boluses of intravenous [IV] fluid, vasopressors, and inotropes) can help prevent secondary injury from hypotension.  Additional short-term goals during the first hours of care include optimizing oxygenation and ventilation and correcting electrolyte abnormalities.  

If the person survives the cardiac arrest, management of the post-cardiac arrest patient is also complex and must address multiple major problems simultaneously: 

  • Initial cardiopulmonary stabilization and prevention of rearrest 
  • Identification and treatment of reversible causes of cardiac arrest 
  • Ongoing stabilization and prevention of brain injury 
  • Early risk stratification 

Immediately following resuscitation from cardiac arrest, the patient can develop severe problems due to medical comorbidities, the underlying cause of arrest, and sequelae of global ischemia-reperfusion injury.  

In this presentation, you will hear about real-world code blue events.  You will learn about the management of both adult- and pediatric-code blue scenarios.  Highlights will include pharmacology, advanced interventions (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, ECMO; intra-arterial fibrinolytics) and case studies.

Here's What You'll Learn

Code Blue vs. Rapid Response 

Baseline Equipment for Code Blue 
        
  • Crash Cart with defibrillator, portable oxygen source, suction equipment 
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  • Bedside ultrasound 
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  • End-tidal CO2 detector 
Pharmacology – Adult doses and sequences 
        
  • Oxygen 
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  • Epinephrine 
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  • Amiodarone 
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  • Lidocaine 
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  • Atropine 
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  • Adenosine 
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  • Diltiazem 
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  • Sotalol 
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  • Procainamide infusion 
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  • Dopamine infusion 
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  • Norepinephrine infusion 
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  • Thrombolytics 
Pharmacology – Pediatric doses and sequences 
        
  • Oxygen 
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  • Epinephine 
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  • Amiodarone 
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  • Lidocaine 
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  • Atropine 
Post-arrest stabilization 
        
  • Cardiac Catheterization 
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  • Targeted Temperature Management 
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  • EEG monitoring 
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  • Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation 
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  • Intra-arterial thrombolytics 
Case Studies 

Everything You're Getting

  • More than 2 hours of video content
  • Up to 2.0 CE credits
  • Certificate of completion
  • Handouts and resources

Meet Your Experts

Paul Langlois, APN, PhD, CCRN, CCNS

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Paul Langlois, APN, PhD, CCRN, CCNS, is a critical care clinical specialist in the surgical, medical, neurologic, burn, CCU, and trauma ICUs of Cook County Hospital, Chicago. Drawing on over 40 years of experience assessing and managing patients with life-threatening diseases, Dr. Langlois provides advanced-level training to nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, respiratory therapists, and physicians.

Dr. Langlois is committed to providing the highest quality of care to patients through advanced education. His presentations are evidence-based, timely, and go beyond content review to sharpen the clinical reasoning underneath it, using illness scripts, anticipatory thinking, and layered case studies to help experienced clinicians reason out loud rather than simply recall answers. As a bedside clinical nurse specialist, he has developed several institution-wide protocols for the multidisciplinary assessment and management of patients.

His presentations are enthusiastically delivered and offer highly practical tips that help make the most challenging concepts easy to understand, from cognitive-bias traps that shape a shift to the SBAR calibration that gets a "come now" call heard the first time. Linking knowledge to clinical practice is the goal of every educational program, and Dr. Langlois builds that link through near-miss scenarios and "what would you do?" cases designed to sharpen judgment, not just test it.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Paul Langlois has employment relationship with Cook County Hospital and Emergency Care Consultants. He receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Paul Langlois is a member of the American Nurses Association, the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, and the Society of Critical Care Medicine.

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Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Product Code:
POS078699
Duration:
2 hours, 10 minutes
Copyright:
Oct 17, 2023
Closed Captions:
Available
Format:
Audio and Video

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