Session 1: COVID-19 & The Practice Impact
- Responding to a rapid response or code blue: Then & now
- PPE changes: Surgical masks, N95, PAPR, goggles, face shields
- Surge in demand for critical care nurses: Education needed for deploying nurses
- Hidden challenges
- Respiratory strategies
- High flow nasal cannula
- NPPV
- Mechanical ventilation
- ECMO
- Acute respiratory failure
- Asthma
- Pneumothorax, pneumomediastinum, pneumopericardium
- COPD
- ARDS
- Pulmonary embolism
- Prone positioning
- Pharmacological challenges
- Hemodynamics
- Rhythm recognition
- Arrhythmia and conduction disease with COVID-19
- Pericarditis
- Endocarditis
- Myocarditis
- Atrial fibrillation
- Heart failure
- Cardiac tamponade
- Cardiogenic shock and ventricular septal rupture
Session 1: Neurological: Cerebrovascular Complications & Coagulopathies
- ICP
- Stroke
- Seizures
- Pathophysiology of arterial & venous thrombosis in COVID-19
- Coagulopathies & guidelines on anticoagulation
- Monitoring the brain from the bedside
- Diabetes
- End stage kidney disease
- GI disease
- Labor, delivery, post-partem
- Fever, anorexia, myalgia, headache
- Rash, sore throat, face pain
- Loss of smell and taste
- Peritonsillar abscess
- Risk of rehospitalization
- Long term sequalae of severe COVID-19 infection
- Vasopressors & inotropes
- Proton pump inhibitors
- Anticoagulants
- Sedation & intubation medications
- Nebulized medications in COVID-19
- COVID-19 medications/vaccines