A patient's blood pressure gives the nursing team valuable information about patient perfusion, fluid balance, and disease status. Are you confident understanding what blood pressure readings mean? Are you comfortable both setting up and interpreting direct arterial blood pressure monitoring? How can you troubleshoot and treat both hyper and hypotension? Are you aware of the disease processes that can change blood pressure? The webinar will answer all of those questions and more!

This webinar will look at the different types of shock and how we deal with them. We will look at its pathophysiology, and how we can assess its severity from physical assessment of the patient, using simple parameters such as mentation, pulse rate and quality and mucous membrane assessment. Treatment of shock will be discussed, including the use of fluid therapy, and the different types, volumes and rates of fluids which may be suitable, as well as medications that are available. Once treated we can also see problems associated with the reperfusion of tissues, and so these issue will also be explained and discussed. By the end of the webinar webinar delegates should feel more confident in dealing with these patients in the clinic and how they can target treatment in order to gain a successful outcome.

This webinar will provide a six step framework for responding when an adverse event or medical error occurs in your practice.