Sean Smith – Pediatric Sepsis: Bad Things Come in Small Packages!

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Speaker: Sean G. Smith, MSc, FP-C, C-NPT, CEN, CFRN, CTRN, TCRN, CPEN, CCRN-CMC (Adult), CCRN-K (Neonatal), CCRN-K (Pediatric)

Duration: 2 Hours 18 Minutes

Format: Audio and Video

Copyright: Mar 27, 2023  

Media Type: Digital Seminar

Description

Critically Ill Pediatric Patients are an especially high-risk and difficult patient population, even for experienced specialized providers… and perhaps none more so the Pediatric Sepsis Patient.  In this engaging graduate-level, yet down-to-earth presentation, get with the latest assessment and treatment guideline updates and elevate your skills to next-level knowledge through a comprehensive review of first principles pharmacology and physiology!

Speaker

Sean G. Smith, MSc, FP-C, C-NPT, CEN, CFRN, CTRN, TCRN, CPEN, CCRN-CMC (Adult), CCRN-K (Neonatal), CCRN-K (Pediatric), is a humanitarian/flight nurse-paramedic who is triple board-certified in neonatal, pediatric, and adult critical care and emergency medicine. He brings 30+ years of education and team/leadership experience to his presentations from a career that includes global health, tropical medicine, research molecular neuroendocrinology, nuclear engineering technology, US Navy aviation/NASA manned space flight support, and high-performance teams/high-yield pedagogy, dozens of national/international conference presentations and various awards and honors. Author/co-author/review credits include a best-selling laboratory medicine textbook, a chapter on shock in Nursing Core Curriculum a section in the newly released Resuscitation Crisis Manual, numerous other industry-standard textbooks, and several professional association critical care/emergency medicine curriculums and board certification review courses (AACN, ANN, ENA, SCCM, etc.). Additionally, Sean routinely consults on clinical, legal, and certification matters for numerous high-profile hospital systems (Yale, Mayo, etc.). He holds an MSc in Pharmacy/Forensic Science, bachelor’s degrees in business administration, nursing, and molecular biology, and post graduate certificates in Forensic Death Investigation, Legal Consulting, and Tropical Medicine. In addition to being active in a number of professional associations (SCCM, AACN, WADEM, etc.), Sean is a life member of Mensa, The Emergency Nurses Association, and the Air Surface Transport Nurses Association. He has served on the executive committees and in various leadership roles of numerous charities and professional associations and has led/participated in 50+ medical missions (Dominican Republic, Honduras, Morocco, Liberia, Nepal, Iraq, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Haiti). Sean served as a clinician and educator during the largest Ebola and Cholera outbreaks in recent history and is currently active in building sustainable neonatal-pediatric cardiac critical care capacity in Iraq, as well as serving as part of a national-level multidisciplinary child sexual assault forensics team in Guyana, South America. Hobbies include Scuba diving and vintage science kits, tube amplifiers, and motorcycles.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Sean Smith is an independent contractor. He receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Sean Smith is a member of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, the Emergency Nurses Association, and the Society for Critical Care Medicine.

Objectives

1. Identify evidence-based practices which prevent sepsis.
2. Differentiate between systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS), sepsis, severe sepsis and septic shock.
3. Describe the provider’s role in assessment of the patient experiencing SIRS, sepsis or septic shock.
4. Outline evidence-based practices for treatment of the patient with sepsis.

Outline

High Performance Resuscitation Teams in Pediatric Sepsis

• Physical and Psychological Components 
• Skills Maintenance Strategies 
• Real World Application 

Rapid Assessment and Stabilization of the Septic Pediatric Patient

• Identify Determinants of Cardiac Output and End Organ Perfusion 
• Identify Reversible Causes and Their Effects on Cardiac Output and End Organ Perfusion 
• Rapidly Assess and Treat Concomitant Reversible Causes Contributing to Decreased Cardiac Output 

The Spectrum of Pediatric Sepsis: Prevention, Recognition, and Palliation

• Identify evidence-based practices which prevent sepsis.  
• Differentiate between systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS), sepsis, severe sepsis and septic shock.  
• Rapidly Assess and Treat Septic Distributive Shock 

Target Audience

• Nurses 
• Nurse Practitioners
• APRNs
• Physicians Assistants
• Physicians

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