Clinical Practice

Decreasing Incidence of Major Adverse Cardiac Events in Non-Cardiac Surgery Patients: A Novel Application for Clinical Decision Support (.75 Class A CE)

Speaker(s)

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  Kristin Kunze, DNP, CRNA, CCRN-CSC

  Alumnus
  Quinnipiac University
  Hamden, Connecticut

Improved cardiac risk assessment with the use of a clinical decision support tool that facilitates clinician recognition of adverse events, drives evidence based practice and guideline adherence, and provides the most patient-specific cardiac risk assessment for appropriateness of surgery and optimal informed patient consent.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify types of major adverse cardiac events and their contributing factors.
• Describe the literature surrounding cardiac risk assessment guidelines.
• Examine the opportunity for clinical decision support tools.
• Discuss alternative for practice improvement.