CLINICAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS - 2008

Alsius is committed to providing educational programs to assist physicians and nurses in their mission to improve patient care.

In 2008, Alsius is sponsoring “the Live Web” workshop series via Inquisit® - an educational company and a division of Amerinet Central.

Program 1:		Therapeutic Hypothermia for Traumatic Brain Injury and Spinal Cord Injury Donald W. Marion, MD, MSc and Dalton W. Dietrich, Ph.D. This is an archived self paced course. It is available. Continuing Education: 1 contact hour for Nurses Click here for more details.
Program 2:		The Challenge of Temperature Control: The Nurse’s Role in Temperature Management DaiWai Olson PhD, RN, CCRN and Christine Schulman RN, MS, CNS This is an archived self paced course. It is available. Continuing Education: 1 contact hour for Nurses Click here for more details.
Program 3:		Therapeutic Hypothermia after Cardiac Arrest: Practical Implementation and Clinical Pearls of Wisdom for Patient Management Mary Ann Peberdy, MD, FACC, FAHA and Michel T. Torbey, MD, MPH, FAHA, FCCM This interactive education webcast will address your real patient management issues related to hypothermia and cardiac arrest. The learning objectives of this interactive education webcast is: Patient selection criteria Pre-hospital considerations Patient management during hypothermia induction, maintenance and rewarming Paralytics or not Hemodynamic monitoring (i.e. Swan catheter, BP, HR) Antiseizure medication EEG monitoring Special circumstances STEMI Pregnancy Dialysis Continuing Education: 1 contact hour for Nurses Click here for more details.
Program 4:		Keep it warm from inside out - TBD

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