Optimizing Patient Safety to Enhance Recovery After Cardiac Surgery

Moderator(s)

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  Vicki Morton, DNP, AGNP-BC (she/her/hers)

  Nurse Practitioner, Lead Cardiovascular Services
  Novant Health
  Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
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  Daniel Engelman, MD (he/him/his)

  Medical Director, Heart & Vascular Critical Care Unit
  Baystate Medical Center
  Springfield, Massachusetts, United States

Presentations:

• 11:30am – 11:40am PT

  Patient Safety as a Core Component of Enhanced Recovery
  

  Invited Speaker: Michael C. Grant, MD, MSE – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
• 11:40am – 11:50am PT

  Surgical Site Infection Prevention in Cardiac Surgery
  

  Invited Speaker: Cheryl Crisafi, MSN – Baystate Medical Center
• 11:50am – 12:00pm PT

  Reflective Biomarker or Independent Risk Predictor? Assessing Lactate Clearance in Postoperative Cardiac Surgery Outcomes
  

  Presenting Author: Alexandra A. Rizaldi, BA (she/her/hers) – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
• 12:00pm – 12:10pm PT

  Avoidance of Pressure Injuries
  

  Invited Speaker: Amanda Rea, DNP, CRNP – Univ of Maryland St Joseph Medical Center
• 12:10pm – 12:20pm PT

  Moderated Panel Discussion
• 12:20pm – 12:30pm PT

  Ventilator Associated Event Bundles
  

  Invited Speaker: Abirami Kumaresan, MD – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
• 12:30pm – 12:40pm PT

  Central Line Blood Stream Infections in Cardiac Surgery
  

  Invited Speaker: Rakesh C. Arora, MD, PhD, FRCSC (he/him/his) – University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center
• 12:40pm – 12:50pm PT

  Is Zero Harm Really Achievable?
  

  Invited Speaker: Kevin W. Lobdell, MD – Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute
• 12:50pm – 1:00pm PT

  Moderated Panel Discussion