Target Audience:
This educational activity is intended for critical care physicians and nurses.Accreditation:
AHC Media is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.Credit Designation:
This activity has been approved for 1.0 nursing contact hours using a 50-minute contact hour.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider # 14749, for 1.0 Contact Hours.
Nurses licensed in California should retain this credit letter for four years.Faculty Listing:
Editor David J. Pierson, MD Professor Emeritus
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
University of Washington
Seattle
Nurse Planner Leslie A. Hoffman, PhD, RN Professor Emeritus
Nursing and Clinical & Translational Science
University of Pittsburgh
Peer Reviewer William Thompson, MD Associate Professor of Medicine
University of Washington
Seattle
Executive Editor Leslie Coplin AHC Media
Managing Editor Neill Kimball AHC Media
Associate Editors Saadia R. Akhtar, MD, MSc St. Luke's Idaho Pulmonary Associates
Boise
Richard J. Wall, MD, MPH Pulmonary Critical Care & Sleep Disorders Medicine,
Southlake Clinic,
Valley Medical Center,
Renton, WA
AuthorsRichard H. Kallet, MS, RRT, FAARC, FCCM Director of Quality Assurance,
Respiratory Care Services,
San Francisco General Hospital
Eric C. Walter, MD, MScPulmonary and Critical Care Medicine,
Northwest Permanente and Kaiser Sunnyside Medical Center,
Portland
Linda L. Chlan, RN, PhD, FAAN
Dean's Distinguished Professor of Symptom Management Research,
The Ohio State University,
College of Nursing
Subjects:
- Ventilator-Associated Events (VAE): An Attempt to Step Out of the Mire
- Gloves Are Not Perfect
- Patients with Multiple Medical Emergency Team Calls Are at High Risk for Adverse Outcomes
- Frailty: An Important Determinant of Outcome in Critical Illness
- Sedative Medications: Challenging to Predict Clinical Effectiveness in Some Mechanically Ventilated Patients
Objectives:
- Identify the particular clinical, legal, or scientific issues related to critical care
- Describe how those issues affect physicians, nurses, health care workers, hospitals, or the health care industry in general
- Cite solutions to the problems associated with those issues
Financial Disclosure:
Critical Care Alert's Editor David J. Pierson, MD, Nurse Planner Leslie A. Hoffman, PhD, RN, Peer Reviewer William Thompson, MD, Executive Editor Leslie Coplin, and Managing Editor Neill Kimballreport no financial relationships relevant to this field of study.
Authors Richard H. Kallet, MS, RRT, FAARC, FCCM, and Eric C. Walter, MD, MSc report no financial relationships relevant to this field of study. Author Linda L. Chlan, RN, PhD, FAAN reports that she receives grant/research support from Hospira.
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