Nursing Podcast by NRSNG (NCLEX® Prep for Nurses and Nursing Students)
Nursing podcast for nursing students and nurses or new nurse. NCLEX® prep, pharmacology, ICU, critical care, and CCRN.
Rank #1: Ep165: A&P: Hemodynamic Parameters (CVP, PAWP, CO, and more awesome acronyms) (cardiac).
Hemodynamics can be tough. . . simply because there are so many interdependent factors that a nurse needs to know. In this episode I share some of the KEY parameters the nurse should know as well as provide a free download of a hemodynamics cheat sheet. Free Download: Hemodynamics Cheat Sheet Must Know Values: Cardiac Output (CO): 4-8 L/min Stroke Volume (SV): 60-120 mL/beat Central Venous Pressure (CVP): 2-6 mmHg PAOP: 8-12 mmHg Systemic Vascular Resistance (SVR): 800-1400 More discussed in episode . . . we also talk about how to manipulate each of these values and what conditions might alter a specific value. The post Ep165: A&P: Hemodynamic Parameters (CVP, PAWP, CO, and more awesome acronyms) (cardiac) appeared first on NRSNG.
Rank #2: Ep181: A&P: 9 Common Cardiac Medication Classes.
Today I want to talk about nine common classes of cardiac meds, that you’re going to need to understand, and you’re going to need to know at a very high level. We’re going to talk about these meds at a very upper level, what’s going on, why we give these meds, and really what you need to know about them. Again, we’re going to cover nine common classes of cardiac medications. A lot of times with our heart attack we have that mnemonic, MONA, which is immediate treatment for heart attack. One of that’s going to be the “N” in MONA is nitrates. What it’s going to do is it’s really going to try to massively dilate the vessel to allow blood to flow. That’s when we would give it, we could give it for that. Also, if someone has a hypertensive crisis we can give them hydralzine. There’s a lot of things that we can do, and what these, the primary primary purpose of these is to relax the vessels. The post Ep181: A&P: 9 Common Cardiac Medication Classes appeared first on NRSNG.
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