#35: Hemodynamic Medications

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Straight A Nursing

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🗓️ 18 January 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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In this podcast episode we talk about hemodynamic medications that you're likely to encounter in Advanced Med/Surg and/or your ICU clinical rotations. With this basic introduction to these powerful medications, you'll have a general understanding of why they are used and how they are administered. * Norepinephrine * Vasopressin * Neosynephrine * Epinephrine * Dobutamine * Dopamine * Milrinone ___________________ Full Transcript - Read the article and view references FREE CLASS - If all you've heard are nursing school horror stories, then you need this class! Join me in this on-demand session where I dispel all those nursing school myths and show you that YES...you can thrive in nursing school without it taking over your life! Study Sesh - Change the way you study with this private podcast that includes dynamic audio formats that help you review and test your recall of important nursing concepts on-the-go. Free yourself from your desk with Study Sesh! Pharmacology Success Pack - Want to get a head start on pharmacology? Download the FREE Pharmacology Success Pack Fast Pharmacology - Learn pharmacology concepts in 5 minutes or less in this audio based program. Perfect for on-the-go review! Confident Calculations - Learn a foolproof method for performing dosage calculations so you can pass your nursing school math exams on the first try! 💕Did you love this episode? Please take a moment to follow or subscribe to the show so you never miss an episode! ___________________ The information, including but not limited to, audio, video, text, and graphics contained on this podcast are for educational purposes only. No content on this podcast is intended to guide nursing practice and does not supersede any individual healthcare provider's scope of practice or any nursing school curriculum. Additionally, no content on this podcast is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Straight a Nursing is a proud member of the Airwave Media Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.1	Streaming Now. Hi everyone welcome back to the first episode of 2018 of the Straight A Nursing
0:49.8	Podcast I'm so glad that you're here. If this is your first time here, welcome. And if you are a returning listener, so glad to be talking with you today. My name is Nurse Mo and today we are going to be talking about
1:10.3	hemodynamic medications. So this podcast is essentially going to be most valuable to you
1:18.8	when you are in your Advanced Med Surge course and your Critical Care Clinical Rotations.
1:28.0	So if you're a brand new student, a lot of this might not make sense yet, but don't worry. Soon you will be
1:37.3	speaking the same language, I promise. So in critical care we use a handful of what we call
1:48.3	vasopressors and inotropes to treat patients who are in shock.
1:55.1	And the most common types of shock
1:56.9	that I deal with in the medical ICU
2:00.1	are septic shock and cardiogenic shock.
2:04.7	So I'm going to share with you the medications
2:07.6	that I come across in working with my physician
2:11.9	team to treat those conditions.
2:15.0	And I just want to pause for just a quick second.
2:19.0	I received a comment on the website the other day from someone who was under the impression that when I say
2:27.4	nurses do this and nurses do that that I was stating that nurses are diagnosing, nurses are intubating, nurses are starting central
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