This course emphasizes safe administration practices, monitoring vital signs and ECG changes, and educating patients on medication use and toxicity signs, ensuring effective therapy and improved outcomes in acute cardiac care.
Understand the pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics of critical care medications, including how drugs like digoxin, nitrates, and antiarrhythmics affect cardiac function and their absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion.
Identify drug classifications and indications in cardiac emergencies, recognizing the specific uses of inotropic drugs, nitrates, and antiarrhythmics in treating myocardial infarction, angina, and arrhythmias.