Tuesday 20 October 2009
14:00–15:30 Hall E
Moderator: J. Dunning, Middlesbrough – S. Nashef, Papworth
14:00
Why new guidelines are so important for our cardiac intensive care units. A full description of the new guidelines, how they were generated and how we can help you implement them in your own unit.
14:30
A live demonstration of the protocol in practice by six experienced nurses and doctors from the UK using the new resternotomy manikin in a virtual intensive care unit bed area.
15:00
Interactive question and answer session with accounts from two nurses who have performed emergency resternotomies in arrests, without surgeons, in the UK, an account of implementation of the guidelines in Papworth, national implementation issues by the UK’s most senior cardiothoracic surgical nurse, and the view of a cardiothoracic anaesthetist working with the UK’s most senior cardiothoracic surgical nurse, and the view of a cardiothoracic anaesthetist working with the guidelines.