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Advanced Cardiac Assessment from Cyndi Zarbano

Advanced Cardiac Assessment Critical Clues You Should NEVER Miss from Cyndi Zarbano

Faculty:Cyndi Zarbano

Duration:1 Hour 21 Minutes | Format:Audio and Video

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Description:

Don’t miss a beat interpreting heart sounds! Cyndi demonstrates quick & easy methods for identifying significant murmurs and the best interventions based on the findings. Also included:

• Jugular Vein Distention
• Symptom Presentation & Risk
• Critical Thinking Skills that Improve Outcomes

Objectives

• Identify the importance of listening over all four heart valves.
• Recognize the significance of S3 and S4 heart sounds.
• Distinguish between systolic and diastolic murmurs.

Outline

• Cardiac Anatomy
• Auscultating Heart Tones
• Normal Heart Sounds
• Sound Sequence
• Circulation Sequence
• Extra Heart Sounds
  • S2 Split
  • S3 Split
  • S4 Split
  • Summation Gallop
  • Pericardial Rub
  • Benign Clicks
  • Prosthetic Valve Clicks
  • Murmurs
    • Grading Intensity of Murmurs
    • Diastolic Murmurs
      • Aortic Regurgitation
      • Mitral Valve Stenosis
      • Tricuspid Stenosis
• Chest Pains

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About Author

Cyndi Zarbano

Cyndi Zarbano, MSN, BSN, CCRN, CEN, PCCN, CLNC, has been a nurse for more than 25 years and a legal nurse consultant (LNC) for 12. Many of her cases in the last decade have been consulting and educating nurses who have gotten into trouble with the board of nursing and helping them complete their corrective action stipulations. Medication errors and patient injury are a common cause of corrective action, license suspension and loss of license.

Cyndi’s clinical area of expertise has been in various intensive care/critical care roles, currently working for Mayo in Minnesota. She has been a national seminar speaker for over ten years speaking to diverse healthcare audiences throughout the country. During her presentations, she has earned the reputation of keeping attendees engaged with the use of current clinical knowledge, fascinating legal stories, and the interjection of nursing humor to keep it fun.

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