Baxter Sponsored Session: Fluids, Sepsis, and Mortality: Past, Present, and Future

Angela Craig, MS, APN, CCNS, CCRN, currently works as a full time Medical Science Liaison for Baxter. She focuses on the evidence and best practices for fluid management. She has maintained her PRN status at Cookeville Regional Medical Center (CRMC) where she was the Clinical Nurse Specialist of the ICU for 16 years.  She has been a Clinical nurse specialist for over 25 years.  She also chaired her hospital’s sepsis team and led her hospital to be the first sepsis disease specific certified hospital in the state of Tennessee. Angela is also a Sepsis Alliance Advisory Board Member. She has a passion for making outcomes for sepsis and all patients a priority. She has worked with area nursing homes/long term care facilities/Home health care and EMS to increase early identification of potential infections and how to best treat. She has spoken at the local, state and national level on the topics of sepsis and hemodynamics. She has consulted for multiple companies with various critical care products.

Angela recently published in December 2023 in AACN Journal of Advanced Critical Care “Advanced Variables to Optimize Hemodynamic Monitoring” and is a contributing author for the book Critical Care Nursing Certification Review which was published in April 2024.  

She also is a contributing editor to the 8^th edition of the Critical Care Nursing Certification Review CCRN Prep and Practice Exams book for the chapters: Sepsis and Multiorgan Syndrome, Toxic emergencies, and airway Obstruction Copyright 2024. 

Prior to CRMC, she was faculty for Lansing Community College, Lansing Michigan in their nursing program for 5 years. She also worked per diem as a Clinical Nurse Specialist at Ingham Regional Medical Center in Lansing Michigan. Prior to this, she worked at South Suburban Hospital in Hazel Crest, Illinois as a clinical nurse specialist for 2 telemetry units and chaired the heart failure program there. When she started as a nurse over 30 years ago, she worked bedside in the intensive Care Unit at Riverside Medical Center in Kankakee Illinois. 

Lisa Soltis, MSN, APRN, PCCN, CCRN-CSC-CMC, CES-A, CCNS, FCNS, FCCM, brings over 29 years of critical care nursing experience to her lectures. She earned her BA from Western Michigan University, her BSN from the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, and her MSN from Duke University School of Nursing as an Adult Critical Care Clinical Nurse Specialist. She is a member of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, was inducted as a Fellow in the inaugural class with the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists in 2019, and is a Fellow in the Society of Critical Care Medicine since 2012. Her experience includes Trauma/Surgical Critical Care and over 27 years of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery Critical Care. 

Lisa currently works with Fresenius Medical Care Heart and Lung division as a Sr. ECMO Clinical Support Specialist for the Novalung support system. She also still cares for patients at the bedside as a clinical nurse at WakeMed Health and Hospitals in the CTICU, in Raleigh, NC. She lectures on various topics related to critical care, mechanical circulatory support, ECMO, and several certification review courses.