Choose from the self-paced courses listed below. All courses are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. These courses offer a convenient post-testing and the ability to print your certificate upon completion. Certificates may be used to meet or accumulate contact hour requirements for re-licensure.

A Guide to Capnography during Procedural Sedation

A Guide to Capnography in the Management of the Critically Ill

A Guide to Monitoring EtCO₂ During Opioid Delivery

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A Guide to Capnography during Procedural Sedation

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Respiratory depression is a widely recognized possible complication of sedation and analgesic administration. Ventilation monitoring using capnography has been determined to be the earliest indicator of hypoventilation and episodes of no-breath. This lecture will discuss ventilation monitoring using capnography during procedural sedation. The activity will:-

• Demonstrate how to utilize capnography to continuously monitor ventilation during procedural sedation

• Review the concepts and common terms associated with capnography, as well as the physiology surrounding this application

• Discuss moderate and deep sedation, how capnography is utilized to monitor both, and why it is integral in the care of the sedated patient

• Review current Joint Commission regulations

• Review of common abnormal waveforms associated with sedation and the appropriate interventions

• A Guide to Capnography in the Management of the Critically Ill

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  The purpose of this educational activity is to provide an overview of capnography monitoring in the management of critically ill patients. This activity includes:-

  • Overview of capnography

  • Review of the physiology surrounding its application, and a discussion of normal EtCO₂ values to include what conditions cause the values to increase and decrease.

  • Review the difference between EtCO₂ and PaCO₂

  • A brief discussion of the different capnography technologies

  • Monitoring in different hospital environments

  • A discussion on nursing and collaborative interventions

• A Guide to Monitoring EtCO₂ During Opioid Delivery

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  During the past few years, organizations such as the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) and the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF) have indicated a need to increase patient safety for patients receiving opioids by monitoring ventilation. Although pulse oximetry is known to monitor oxygenation it does not deliver information on the adequacy of ventilation. Capnography has been determined to be the fastest indicator of ventilatory depression. This lecture describes ventilation monitoring using capnography to detect hypoventilation in patients receiving PCA or neuraxial opioids in the postoperative period.

For Respiratory Care: This program has been approved for a maximum of 1.0 contact hours for Continuing Respiratory Care Education.(CRCE) credit by the American Association for Respiratory Care. 9425 N. MacArthur Blvd. Suite 100 Irving, TX 75063.