Main goal of the program – make you a superb clinician in evaluating the cardiac status of your patient – to do this easily, quickly and safely

• Learn how to monitor your patients heart function better than ever, better than you have been taught in the past
• Never be caught off guard regarding impending cardiac emergencies
• Make assessments in seconds, prevent problems before they arise
• How APN’s, especially CRNA’s, can not only reduce hospital costs, but can increase their reimbursement by thousands of dollars

Learn what techniques to use and why

• Why stroke volume measurement is better than blood pressure and other current measures at evaluating effectiveness of heart function
• Why new technologies, such as doppler, are easier, safer and more accurate than current methods (including the Swan-Ganz catheter)
• How stroke volume optimization makes titrating drugs and evaluating the effectiveness of therapies easy
• Why physical assessment is often inaccurate and misleading
• How use of stroke volume optimization provides the patient and hospital enormous cost savings

Key Topics

• Use of stroke volume optimization
• Technologies to measure stroke volume that are easy, safe and can be done in all clinical settings, not just ICU’s
• Drug therapy – what to use and when, plus evaluating if the therapy worked. Learn if a therapy worked in minutes, not hours.

Learn the scientific support of the methods taught in this program – the evidence is clearly in favor of these methods rather than the techniques currently used