Marcia Gamaly – Cardiac Emergencies: Quickly Recognize Life-Threatening Dysrhythmias & Manage Your Most Unstable Patients

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Faculty:
Marcia Gamaly
Duration:
Full Day
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Nov 10, 2017

Description

Outline

Cardiac rhythm review

  • Sinus
  • Atrial
  • Junctional
  • Ventricular
  • Blocks
  • SKILLS: Video presentation
    • Cardioversion
    • Pacing
    • Defibrillation

Commonly prescribed medications

  • Anticoagulants
  • Vasodilators
  • Antiarrythmics
  • Vasopressors
  • Inotropics
  • Miscellaneous agents

Myocardial Ischemia – “Time is muscle”

  • Pathophysiology
  • Cardiac enzymes & diagnostic testing
  • Core measures
  • Risk assessment tools
  • Treatment/interventions
  • SKILLS: Telemetry monitoring
  • EKG lead placement
  • Telemetry packs – 3, 5, and 6-leads

Heart failure

  • Pathophysiology
  • Diagnostic testing
  • Core measures
  • Treatment/interventions
  • SKILLS: Oxygen delivery systems
    • Nasal cannula to CPAP
  • SKILLS: Prevention of respiratory depression/failure
    • Pulse oximetry – how effective is it?
    • End-Tidal CO2 monitoring

Monitoring the post-cardiac catheterization patient

  • Assessment of cath site
  • Monitoring for complications/ hematoma
  • SKILLS: Hemostatic devices
    • Radial access device (e.g., VascBand®)
    • Femoral access device (e.g., FemoStop®)

Trends in patient management

  • Life-Vest
  • WATCHMAN® Device
  • Left Ventricular Assist Device
  • Chest and abdominal drainage systems (e.g., PleurX®)

Faculty

Marcia Gamaly Related seminars and products: 11


Marcia Gamaly, MSN, MHA, RN-BC, CEN, PCCN, has over twenty years of nursing experience at the bedside and in staff development. Marcia currently works as a clinical nurse educator at St. Mary Medical Center in Langhorne, Pennsylvania. In her current role, she oversees and plans the educational needs for over 250 nurses and support staff on a variety of units, including a step-down, neuro-tele and medical-surgical units. She has developed and presented on a variety of topics including certification courses for critical care, progressive care, medical-surgical, oncology and emergency nursing. Other presentations include telemetry skills day, medical-surgical skills day, cardiac dysrhythmia interpretation, post-operative care and heart failure. Additionally, Marcia is an instructor for BLS, ACLS, PALS, TNCC, ENPC and ASLS and works as a per-diem emergency department staff nurse.

She is a doctoral student at Villanova University, with a research interest in bariatrics. She is certified in medical-surgical nursing, progressive care nursing, emergency nursing, and professional staff development. She is a member of the Emergency Nurses Association, American Association of Critical Care Nurses, and American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.

Marcia combines her role in clinical education with hands-on experience to deliver a high-level learning opportunity that is patient-focused and outcome-driven. The meaningful insights she has to share will be applied easily at the bedside to improve your own care of patients!

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Marcia Gamaly has an employment relationship with St. Mary Medical Center and Lower Bucks Hospital. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.

Non-financial: Marcia Gamaly is a member of the Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses; America Association of Critical-Care Nurses; American Nurses Association; American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery; and Emergency Nurses Association.


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