Critical Care Clinical Nurse Specialist
Temple University Hospital
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Richard Arbour, MSN, RN, CCRN, CNRN, CCNS, CCTC, FAAN, FCCM is a clinical nurse specialist in surgical/trauma/neuroscience and cardiothoracic/transplant critical care and rescue nurse coordinator at Temple University Health System in Philadelphia. He has been in practice nearly 40 years and an advanced practice nurse for nearly 20 years. Richard has extensive clinical, research and teaching experience managing patients with end-stage organ failure, brain injury and the transplant population throughout all phases of care. Mr. Arbour also has extensive expertise in brain death testing, rapid recognition and management of brain death confounders (including cardiac autotriggering in controlled ventilation) and clinical management of the organ donor. Mr. Arbour is internationally known for expertise in sedation and pain management in acute, critical and Progressive care. He has successfully spearheaded pain management protocols and clinical pathways, also incorporating ketamine into comprehensive pain management protocols for postoperative spine surgical patients and in patients following burn trauma requiring complex wound care. Richard is published many times over in all these areas within refereed critical care journals including AACN Advanced Critical Care, Critical Care Nurse, Chest, Critical Care Medicine and Intensive & Critical Care Nursing as well as multiple book chapters. These works are cited and utilized nationally and internationally informing and guiding clinical practice. Richard has taught and consulted on patient evaluation for solid organ transplant, care of the transplant recipient, clinical donor management, hormonal resuscitation therapy and brain death protocols in Saudi Arabia, Iceland, Sweden and Western Europe as well as many locations within the United States. His works including, "Clinical Management of the Organ Donor" and “Early Hormonal Resuscitation” are utilized by multiple healthcare organizations, including OPO's as a teaching tools for optimal management of the solid organ donor.
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Monday, April 18, 2022
7:00 AM – 8:00 AM US CST