Nursing Care of Critically Ill Patients with a Central Venous Catheter

In this session, Dr Gillian Ray-Barruel covers the following objectives:

1. Review possible complications during and following CVC insertion

2. Discuss principles of nursing management post-insertion:

• Flushing
• Safe blood sampling
• Medication and fluid administration
• Dressing changes

3. Describe the procedure for safe CVC removal.

Continulus is a video-learning platform that makes world expert medical and nursing education accessible, affordable and convenient, in an environmentally friendly and socially responsible format.

We subsidise access in middle-income countries, and provide free access in low-income countries, plus we donate time, money and resources to healthcare projects in poorly resourced areas.

We've been running a fortnightly lecture series in Critical Care Nursing since May 2019 with speakers such as Kathleen Vollman, Leanne Aitken, Andrea Marshall, Stijn Blot and many more.

And we launched a Critical Care Medicine lecture series in February 2020 (Rinaldo Bellomo, Simon Finfer, Phil Dellinger and many others).

We provide one year's free access to members of the Australian College of Critical-Care Nursing (ACCCN). And for everyone else, there are some free resources which are helpful for the current pandemic:

• Our free COVID-19 relevant  lectures here: https://www.continulus.com/covid-19-free-lectures/
• Our "Essentials of Critical Care Nursing Course" which is here: https://www.continulus.com/courses/essentials-of-critical-care-nursing/

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Dr Eoghan Colgan
Founder and CEO
Continulus
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