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 goals of this program are to improve anesthetic management for awake craniotomy and to successfully care for the patient experiencing a malignant hyperthermia crisis. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:
1: Discuss the evolution of awake craniotomy and reasons for performing an awake procedure.
2: Perform preoperative evaluation and preparation and anesthetic technique for awake craniotomy.
3: Review the pathophysiology of malignant hyperthermia (MH).
4: Describe the triggers and presentation of MH.
5: Outline the steps to successfully recognize and treat an acute episode of MH.