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Perioperative Insulin Pump Therapy (7 Oct 2024)
The goal of this program is to improve management of heart failure (HF) by implementing best practices for managing insulin pumps in the operating room.
Ketamine: Fact vs Fiction (7 Aug 2024)
The goal of this program is to improve use of ketamine as a perioperative drug.
Perioperative Management of the Patient with Opioid Use Disorder on Buprenorphine (7 Aug 2024)
The goal of this program is to improve perioperative management of pain in patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) using buprenorphine.
Perioperative Management of Cirrhosis (28 Jul 2024)
The goal of this program is to improve management of cirrhosis of the liver.
Perioperative Considerations for Fontan Circulation (28 Jun 2024)
The goal of this program is to improve perioperative management of Fontan physiology.
Perioperative Gastric Ultrasonography (14 May 201
The goal of this program is to reduce the risk for aspiration after induction of anesthesia.
Operational Efficiency in Perioperative Services (14 March)
The goal of this program is to improve operational efficiency in perioperative care, including discussion of operating room metrics and continuous improvement.
Perioperative Adverse Events and the Second Victim Phenomenon (7 March)
The goal of this program is to improve responses to catastrophic perioperative events, including an examination of second victim syndrome.
Using Data for Intraoperative Management (14 February 2024)
The goal of this program is to improve use of artificial intelligence in clinical decision making, including strategies to improve compliance with clinical decision support systems, and recognising different models of data analysis based on artificial intelligence.
Perioperative Anesthetic Implications for the Care of an Aging Adult (7 December 2023)
The goal of this program is to improve perioperative anesthetic care for geriatric patients. Topics include preoperative assessment, postoperative delirium, epidural blocks, and postoperative intravenous analgesia.
Perioperative Management of Common Valvular Abnormalities (7 Nov 2023)
The goal of this program is to improve the perioperative management of common valvular abnormalities.
Preoperative Evaluation, Part 1: Cardiac Assessment (28 Sep 2023)
The goal of this program is to improve perioperative evaluation of risk for cardiac complications. Topics include risk-assessment, stress testing, guidelines, and interventions.
Substance Use Screening (21 Aug 2023)
The goal of this program is to improve screening for substance use, including risk stratification strategies in the perioperative setting.
Perioperative Pacemaker Management and Future Therapies (21 Jul 2023)
The goal of this program is to improve perioperative care of patients with cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs) undergoing surgery.
Updates in Perioperative Acute Pain Strategies (7 Jun 2023)
This program aims to improve the management of perioperative pain for patients taking buprenorphine.
Goal-Directed Fluid Therapy Improves Perioperative Outcomes (28 Mar 2023)
This program aims to improve outcomes for surgical patients with goal-directed fluid therapy.
Massive Resuscitation (21 Jan 2023)
This program aims to improve outcomes of patients who are candidates for massive resuscitation.
Optimal Perioperative Pain Management for Gastric Bypass Surgery (7 Jan 2023)
This program aims to improve perioperative pain management of patients undergoing gastric bypass surgery.
Perioperative Ischemia and Intracranial Hemorrhage for the Anesthesia Provider (14 Dec 2022)
This program aims to improve care for patients with suspected hemorrhagic or ischemic stroke.
Perioperative Tracheostomies: Addressing the Holes in Our Knowledge of Airway Management (7 Dec 2022)
This program aims to improve the management of patients with tracheostomy by providing safe and appropriate anesthesia for tracheostomy procedures.
Non-obstetric Surgery in the Pregnant Patient (21 Nov 2022)
This program aims to improve the perioperative management of patients undergoing nonobstetric surgery during pregnancy.
Transcatheter Valve Therapeutics and Perioperative Considerations (21 Nov 2022)
This program aims to improve perioperative management of patients undergoing use of transcatheter aortic valve therapeutics
Perioperative Brain Health and the Elderly (7 Nov 2022)
This program aims to improve the prevention of postoperative delirium in elderly patients.
Anesthetic Considerations in Elderly Patients (14 Oct 2022)
This program aims to improve the use of anesthesia in elderly patients, including identifying risk factors and the use of appropriate screening and prognostic tools.
Technologies to Improve Anesthesia Management (7 Sep 2022)
This program aims to improve the use of perioperative management of anesthesia, including identifying the mechanism and benefit of using near-infrared spectroscopy as a measure of tissue oxygenation.
Perioperative Management Strategies for COVID-19-Positive Patients (7 Sep 2022)
This program aims to improve the perioperative management of patients with COVID-19 infection.
Technologies to Improve Anesthesia Management (7 Sep 2022)
This program aims to improve the perioperative management of anesthesia, including the benefits of measuring the sedative effect during anesthesia.
Obstructive Breathing Patterns in the Post-anesthesia Care Unit (28 Aug 2022)
This program aims to improve obstructive breathing patterns in the post-anesthesia care unit (PACU)
Reducing Perioperative Respiratory Adverse Events in Children (14 Jul 2022)
This program aims to improve prevention of perioperative respiratory adverse events in children by selecting safe modes of anesthesia delivery.
New Thinking About Advance Care Planning (7 Jul 2022)
The following program looks at improving advanced care planning (ACP) and will help implement the Physician Orders for Life-sustaining Treatment form in ACP.
Perioperative Considerations for the Adolescent Patient with Chronic Pain (14 May 2022)
This program aims to improve chronic pain management in adolescent patients, better interpret pain scores, and implement strategies to improve postoperative outcomes in teenage patients.
Practical Guidelines for Preoperative Fasting (14 May 2022)
This program aims to improve surgical outcomes via appropriate perioperative nutrition and fasting, when appropriate..
Management of Perioperative Vasoplegia (14 Apr 2022)
This program aims to improve the management of vasoplegia by helping the clinician cite diagnostic criteria in vasoplegia more effectively.
Perioperative Pain Management in the Obese Patient (7 Apr 2022)
This program aims to improve perioperative pain management in obese patients. You will be able to recognise challenges in developing multimodal analgesic pathways and learn skills to manage perioperative pain in overweight patients.
Fundamentals of Preoperative Evaluation (14 Mar 2022)
This program is to improve preoperative evaluation of surgical patients, including assessment tools to calculate patient risk.
Perioperative Renal Dysfunction After Cardiac Surgery (7 Feb 2022)
This program aims to improve the management of perioperative renal dysfunction after cardiac surgery and help clinicians recognise risk factors for acute kidney injury following such surgery.
Understanding the Struggle of Patient Access to Perioperative Medical Care (14 Jan 2022)
This program aims to improve access to perioperative medical care among disadvantaged populations.
Checklists in Trauma Anesthesia (21 Oct 2021)
This program aims to improve the implementation of checklists for using anesthesia in a trauma setting.
Establishing a Perioperative Cognitive Screening and Delirium Prevention Program (14 Oct 2021)
This program aims to improve prevention of postoperative delirium including implementing a perioperative delirium prevention bundle that meets the individuals needs
Intraoperative Adverse Events (14 Aug 2021)
This program aims to reduce risk for intraoperative adverse events and their sequelae.
The Impact of Anesthesiologists’ Preoperative Care on Surgical Site Infections and an Update on Appropriate Preoperative Antibiotics (14 Jun 2021)
This program aims to improve prophylaxis for surgical site infections, including patients with reported penicillin allergy.
Management of the Anticoagulated Patient (28 Mar 2021)
This program aims to improve the perioperative treatment of patients who take drugs for anticoagulation.
Updates From The Perioperative Medicine Literature (7 Mar 2021)
This program aims to review recent impactful publications related to perioperative medicine.

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