Post-Operative Invasive Cardiac Monitoring
Learn how to monitor a patient’s cardiac anatomy, physiology and circulation to anticipate and treat potential post-operative complications.
Learning Objectives
Identify pertinent assessments to establish a patient baseline in the postoperative period
Describe normal postoperative intracardiac pressures and saturations
Identify assessment data that may be obtained from hemodynamic monitoring catheters
Author(s)
Dorothy (Dot) M. Beke, MS, RN, CPNP-PC/AC, FAAN
Nurse Practice Specialist & Mechanical Circulatory Support Nursing Resource, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU); Bereavement Coordinator, Heart Center' Nurse Practitioner, Cardiology Preoperative Clinic | Boston Children’s Hospital
Citation
Beke D, Olszewski AE, Wolbrink TA. Post-operative Invasive Cardiac Monitoring. 1/2014. Online Video. OPENPediatrics. https://learn.openpediatrics.org/learn/course/internal/view/elearning/3017/post-operative-invasive-cardiac-monitoring.