Describe nursing care of the post angioplasty patient.
• Identify possible complications and their causes following coronary stent placement and nursingcare designed to prevent these complications.
• Describe administration, pharmacokinetics and the desired effect of nitroglycerin.
• What should be included in a complete neurovascular assessment to the lower extremitiesfollowing a cardiac catheterization?
• What are signs and symptoms of a myocardial infarction? What laboratory values and trends reflecta positive myocardial infarction? What is the relationship of PVCs to a myocardial infarction?
• Describe drug eluting stents and the rationale for their use.
• Compare cardioversion and defibrillation.
• What effect does albumin have on the circulatory system?
• What are the pharmacokinetics of heparin and morphine?
• What is the advanced cardiac life support protocol for atrial fibrillation with rapid ventricularresponse?
• Describe the ECG changes that may occur with a myocardial infarction.