Critical Care Clinical Nurse Specialist
Temple University Hospital
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Richard Arbour, MSN, RN, CCRN, CNRN, CCNS, CCTC, CBRN, FAAN, FCCM has been a clinical nurse specialist in surgical/trauma, pulmonary and neuroscience critical care for 22 years in addition to working in neuroscience critical care at a high-volume academic medical center. Richard has extensive clinical experience of 40 years in practice as well as research, teaching, and publishing experience in 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 and clinical management of the organ donor, areas where his expertise is acknowledged internationally. Richard is published extensively in all these areas within refereed journals including AACN Advanced Critical Care, Critical Care Nurse and Intensive & Critical Care Nursing as well as multiple book chapters and internationally. These works are widely cited and utilized nationally and internationally informing clinical practice. Richard has taught and consulted on patient evaluation for liver transplant, care of the transplant recipient, clinical donor management, hormonal resuscitation therapy and brain death protocols in Saudi Arabia, Iceland, Sweden, Western Europe and throughout 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 resources for optimal management of the solid organ donor.
Complete Care: Protocol-Driven Management of the Potential Organ Donor
Monday, January 22, 2024
3:50 PM – 4:05 PM MT