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 anesthesia management during thoracic aortic surgical procedures by reviewing the evidence supporting new guidelines, and to improve the management of ST segment elevation during noncardiac surgery. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:
1: Choose the most appropriate method of monitoring brain activity during hypothermic arrest.
2: Prevent poor neurocognitive outcomes by choosing optimal cerebral protection strategies during hypo-thermic arrest.
3: Discuss the strength of evidence for or against various neuroprotective strategies used during thoracic aortic surgery.
4: Manage intraoperative or perioperative ST segment elevation.
5: Identify strategies for preventing ST segment elevation and associated myocardial infarction.