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 airway management in obese patients undergoing surgery and to improve outcomes of bariatric surgery. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:
1: Diagnose and manage obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and hypopnea before patients become hypoxic.
2: Circumvent challenges that may interfere with the prompt identification of OSA.
3: Recognize the relationship between long-standing OSA and the development of comorbidities such as hypertension and arrhythmias.
4: Anticipate and prevent adverse anesthesia outcomes in obese patients.
5: Compare and contrast the advantages and disadvantages of commonly performed bariatric surgical procedures.