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Critical Care Clinical Nurse Specialist
Temple University Hospital
Richard Arbour, MSN, RN, CCRN, CNRN, CCNS, CCTC, FAAN, FCCM is a clinical nurse specialist in surgical/trauma and burn critical care at Temple University Health System in Philadelphia. He has been in practice 40 years and in advanced practice roles for 20 years. Richard has extensive clinical, research and teaching experience managing critically ill patients with end-stage organ failure, burn trauma and utilizing extracorporeal support throughout all phases of care including patient selection, titration of support, weaning and determining futility. He has successfully spearheaded pain management protocols and clinical pathways, also incorporating ketamine into comprehensive pain management protocols for post-burn trauma analgesia and complex wound care. Richard is published many times over 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. He has taught and consulted nationally and internationally 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. He has also taught nationally and internationally on care of the patient following burn trauma. Additionally, he was one of the team of 10 healthcare providers deployed from the United States in response to a burn disaster in Sierra Leone providing patient care for burn victims and education for local healthcare providers.