Recognizing Aortic Dissection: A Race Against Time
By Rose M. Coughlin, MSN, RN, CNS-BC
Expiration Date: December 31, 2012. No CE contact hours (CH) will be given after this date.
Purpose: To provide registered nurses with information to help them identify and manage patients with aortic dissection.
Objectives:
- Describe the classifications of aortic dissection.
- List the signs and symptoms of aortic dissection.
- Discuss surgical and medical treatment of aortic dissection.
- Explain the follow-up care needed for patients who’ve had aortic dissections.
Description: To save the patient’s life, the healthcare team must be able to identify this perilous condition in mere moments.
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Rose M. Coughlin is a Wound Healing Specialist at Northeast Surgical Associates of Ohio,Wound Management Service in Independence, Ohio. Previously, she worked as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in the Cardiothoracic Stepdown Units at The Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio.
The planners and author of this CNE activity have disclosed no relevant financial relationships with any commercial companies pertaining to this activity. Illustrations reprinted
The American Nurses Association Center for Continuing Education and Professional Development is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
ANA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, provider number CEP6178.
