Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners -- physicians and other healthcare professionals -- with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.
Audio-Digest Anesthesiology is specifically designed to provide the participant with state-of-the-art information including, but not limited to:
Hazards of working in the OR
Hemostasis and hemotherapy
Opioids vs. non-opioid anesthesia
Inhalation anesthesia
Muscle relaxants
Local anesthetics
Preoperative medication
Airway management
Monitoring the anesthetized patient
Epidural and spinal anesthesia
Peripheral nerve blockade
Cancer therapy and its anesthetic implications
The allergic response
Anesthesia for nonoperative locations
Postoperative recovery
Management of acute and chronic pain
The goal of this program is to improve neurosurgical anesthesia technique and the management of venous air embolisms (VAEs). After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:
1: Determine which patients with head trauma are most likely to require ventilatory support after surgery.
2: Explain the importance of attention to patient positioning during neurosurgery.
3: Describe the effect of different anesthetic agents on intracranial pressure.
4: Identify neurosurgical patients at greatest risk of developing VAE.
5: Apply techniques to reduce the risk for VAE in patients undergoing head-elevated surgical procedures.