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Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) Specialty Assembly Meeting/Education-Are You Ready for Local Anesthetic Toxicity? #1027 (1.00 CH)

1027 - Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) Specialty Assembly Meeting/Education-Are You Ready for Local Anesthetic Toxicity? #1027 (1.00 CH)

Speaker(s)

• DW

  Diana Wadlund, MSN, ACNP-BC, CRNFA

  Nurse Practitioner
  Paoli Hospital
  Paoli, PA

Systemic toxicity from the injection or overdose of local anesthetics is a rare and potentially fatal complication. As preoperative nurses, it is our responsibility to be aware of the risk of local anesthetic toxicity, the signs and symptoms of local anesthesia toxicity, and how to appropriately manage the patient who is experiencing this very serious complication. Local anesthesia toxicity will be reviewed and the audience will be introduced to management of local anesthetic toxicity, including the concept of lipid rescue therapy.

Learning Objectives:

• Review local anesthetic toxicity, including the signs and symptoms.
• Discuss evidence-based practice for the use of lipid rescue therapy in the treatment of local anesthetic toxicity.
• Design a treatment plan for the management of local anesthetic toxicity.
• Describe the technique of administering lipid therapy.