What You’ll Discover in Cyndi Zarbano Mastering Lab Interpretation & The Implications for Patient Care
- Faculty:
- Cyndi Zarbano
- Duration:
- Full Day
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
- Mar 30, 2016
Description
- Understanding the Differential: “Shift to the Left”
- From the Labs, Identify Different Types of Acute Kidney Failure
- Life-Potentially dangerous electrolyte imbalances and interventions
- Master ABG Interpretation Use a simple tool
- Systemic Inflammation of Sepsis: Lactate/Procalcitonin Levels
- Reading Cultures and Sensitivities
- The Living with Liver Failure: Understanding LFTs
- Lab EKG Clues to Differentiate ACS & MI
This interactive seminar will give you a true integrative understanding about lab results and patient outcomes. Not a TECHNICIAN, but a CLINICIAN . . Do not be reactive, but PROACTIVE! Discover the clinical clues in labs, and become a situationally aware patient advocate.
Join Cyndi ZarbanoMSN., BSN. This course will cover a wide range of labs and explain why they are ordered. It will also discuss what the results can tell you about your patients. You can use critical thinking to plan for the best possible patient outcomes and help you understand the meaning of these values.
Handouts
| Webcast Manual (2.47 MB) | 69 pages | Available after Purchase |
Outline
Basic Metabolic Profiles (BMP).
- Glucose
- Acid Base
- Renal Function
- Electrolytes
- Life-threatening Electrolytes
- Potassium
- Magnesium
- Sodium
- Calcium
Comprehensive Metabolic Panel – Indications and Implications
- LFTs: Exploring The Liver
- AST/ALT/ALP/Total Bilirubin/Proteins
- Health issues in liver failure
- Jaundice
- Ascites
- Hepatic
- Encephelopathy
CBC with Differential: Understanding the Components
- What Impacts Can WBC and Neutrophil Findings Have
- Anemias/Polycythemias
- Understanding the Differential
- The Left Shift Explained
- Transfusing Guidelines have been updated
Acute Renal Failure – How to Find the Cause
- Creatinine
- BUN
- BUN/CR ratios
- Glomerular Filtration Rate
- Urine Osmolality
- FENA
Cardiac Labs: Ischemia or Myocardial Infarction
- Cardiac Panels
- EKG Clues Supporting Findings
- Differentiating STEMI vs.
- BNP
- Pro-BNP
Coagulation/Thrombotic Risk Panels: Clues to Clotting
- The Clotting Cascade
- The Right Lab Take a test for The Medication
- aPTT
- PT
- INR
- D-dimer
- Disseminated intravascular coagulopathy
Urinalysis. Does Your Patient Do you have a UTI?
- The most recent guidelines
- Culture
Blood Gases – Identifying the Underlying Disorder
- There are three types gases
- Interpreting Arterial Blood Gases: It’s Easier Than You Think!
- Venous Blood Gases
- Mixed Venous Blood Gases
Labs and Sepsis: A Team Approach
- Cultures, Gram Stains, and Sensitivities
- Systematic Inflammation
- Labs of Sepsis
- Concentrations of Lactate
- Procalcitonin Levels
- WBCs
- Neutrophils
Lumbar Punctures / Cerebral Spinal Fluid
- Bacterial Meningitis
- Viral Meningitis
- Viral Encephalitis
Understanding thyroid dysfunction
- TSH
- T4 Levels
- T3 Uptake
Differentiating hyperglycemic states
- DKA
- HHS (HHNK)
- Treatment for Each
Faculty
Cyndi Zarbano, MSN. BSN. CCRN. CEN. PCCN. CMSRN. CLNC. Related products and seminars: 48
Clinical Review
Cyndi Zarbano, MSN, BSN, CCRN, CEN, PCCN, CMSRN, CLNC, A nurse for Over 25 years of experience as a legal nurse consultant (LNC). for 12. In the past decade, many of her cases have involved consulting with and educating nurses who are in trouble with the board of Nursing and helping them to complete their corrective actions stipulations. Corrective action, suspension or loss of licensure can be caused by medication errors or patient injury.
Cyndi’s clinical area of expertise has been in various intensive care/critical care roles, currently working for Mayo in Minnesota. She was a national speaker in seminars for More than ten years experience in speaking to healthcare audiences all over the country. She has a reputation for keeping her audience engaged through the use of modern clinical knowledge, fascinating legal stories and the occasional sprinkle of nursing humor.
Speaker Disclosures
Financial: Cyndi Zarbano Clinical Review Consultants is owned by her. PESI, Inc. gives her a speaking honourarium.
Non-financial: Cyndi Zarbano There is no non-relevant information-financialrelationship to disclose.
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