Go with Your Gut: GI Issues in the ICU and GI Emergencies
Go with Your Gut: GI Issues in the ICU and GI Emergencies is organized by American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN).
Released/Updated: Sep 26, 2021
Expires: Dec 31, 2024
Activity Summary
Critical care nurses who maintain vigilance for aberrant conditions of the GI tract are formidable foes to the adversity which accompanies these illnesses. The session takes a high-level approach to life-threatening GI issues and emergencies of intestinal ischemia/infarction, obstruction, and perforation with sepsis. Clinical clues to aid recognition of true GI emergencies are presented, helping attendees in techniques of rapid assessment and interventions for patients with these dangerous conditions.
Objectives:
• Discuss the incidence and etiology of abdominal vascular emergencies, GI obstruction, and perforation with intraabdominal sepsis.
• Describe the evaluation and management of intestinal ischemia/infarction, bowel obstruction or perforation with intraabdominal sepsis
• Correlate the significant signs of GI illness or catastrophe with related anatomy through case-based scenarios.
Topics: Gastrointestinal, Sepsis
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