Complete Anatomy
Anticoagulation Management Made Easy
About this course
By Dr. John Russell
Take the complicated process of managing anticoagulation and reduce it to a simple algorithm for success! Taught by two clinical pharmacists who both work in a dedicated anticoagulation clinic and also in the clinical setting of a heart hospital, both who have a passion for the clotting cascade and all the confusing yet wonderful ways modern pharmacologic agents address unique patient needs.
Learning Outcomes
Describe the extrinsic and intrinsic pathways of the clotting cascade.
Integrate multiple patient issues to determine a best drug of choice for anticoagulation therapy.
Identify risk factors and manage patients who require periprocedural anticoagulation interruption.
Be aware of best clinical research available for use of reversal agents of both traditional vitamin K antagonist (warfarin) therapy and novel oral anticoagulants.
Author
Dr. John Russell, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, CCRN, RNFA is the owner and founder of Skills On Point®, LLC as well as a nurse practitioner/first assistant in cardiothoracic surgery at Swedish American Hospital in Rockford, IL. As well as an instructor for the National Institute of First Assisting, INC (NIFA®), John teaches nurse practitioner students for Olivet Nazarene University for the School of Graduate and Continuing Studies. He loves simplifying complicated concepts into digestible portions and loves to use ridiculous analogies to make the most complicated concepts come to life for the learner.