Cheryl Herrmann – Pharmacological Decisions to Optimize Cardiac Outcomes – PESI

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Speaker: Cheryl Herrmann, RN, MS, APRN, CCRN, CCNS-CSC/CMC

Duration: 3 Hours 24 Minutes

Format: Audio and Video

Copyright: Feb 17, 2022  

Media Type: Digital Seminar

Description

Cardiac pharmacology can be intimidating.  Are you prescribing the latest evidenced based medications to improve outcomes in your cardiac patients?  This session discusses the optimal medical management for acute and chronic heart failure, ischemic heart disease and narrow complex arrhythmias.  You will walk away with many cardiac pharmacology clinical pearls to incorporate into your daily practice and feel confident you are prescribing the latest EBP medications.

Speaker

Cheryl Herrmann, RN, MS, APRN, CCRN, CCNS-CSC/CMC

Cheryl Herrmann, RN, MS, APRN, CCRN, CCNS-CSC/CMC, has 40+years of nursing experience – 15 years as a bedside nurse in critical care and 25 + years as a cardiac clinical nurse specialist. In her career, she has assessed and managed cardiology, cardiovascular surgery and critical care patients from the prehospital setting as PHRN on the ambulance to patients in cardiac progressive and critical care units. As CNS, she helped develop the Rapid Response Team and Protocols at her institution and was chairman of the RRT committee to analyze and improve outcomes. One of the creative teaching methods to improve outcomes was being involved in biyearly “Preventing a Crisis” sessions for acute care nurses that utilized recent case studies to discern strategies to prevent the crisis. Cheryl has a passion for cardiac nursing and is an advocate for empowering nurses to become experts.

She is a popular presenter for national conferences including the American Association of Critical Care Nurses NTI. Cheryl has been honored with the American Association of Critical Care Nurses Circle of Excellence – Excellent Clinical Nurse Specialist Award.

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Cheryl Herrmann has employment relationships with Carle Health Greater Peoria and Liberty University. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.

Non-financial: Cheryl Herrmann is a member of the Heart of Illinois AACN, the Illinois Society of Advanced Practice Nurses, the National AACN, and the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists.

Objectives

1. Evaluate strategies to up-titrate medications to obtain goal directed medical therapy for systolic heart failure patients. 
2. Develop medication plan for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy patients. 
3. Determine the optimal pharmacological management for ischemic heart disease patients.  
4. Differentiate between pharmacological treatments for rate versus rhythm control in tachyarrhythmias. 
5. Apply evidenced-based medication options for the case studies presented.  
6. Integrate clinical pearls of cardiac pharmacology into daily practice.  

Outline

Heart Failure/Cardiomyopathy Pharmacology: Systolic vs. Diastolic vs Hypertrophic

• ACE Inhibitors 
• Angiotensin Receptor Blockers 
• Angiotensin Receptor Neprilysin Inhibitor 
• Betablockers 
• Diuretics 
• Nitrates and Hydralazine 
• Sodium Glucose Cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) Inhibitors 
• Optimizing outcomes with titrations of medications 

Ischemic Heart Disease Pharmacology: STEMI vs. NSTEMI vs chronic angina 

• Fibrinolytics  
• Antiplatelets  
• Betablockers 
• Statins 
• Nitrates 
• Calcium Channel Blockers 

Narrow Complex Tachycardia Pharmacology: Atrial Fibrillation vs. Atrial Flutter vs Supraventricular Tachycardia (SVT) 

• Rhythm vs Rate Control 
• Antiarrhythmics 
• Calcium Channel Blockers 
• Betablockers 
• Digoxin 
• Anticoagulants 

Pharmacology Case Studies 

Target Audience

• Nurses
• Nurse Practitioners
• Physicians
• Physicians Assistants

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