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 update clinicians on future changes and advancements in the clinical practice of anesthesiology. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:
1: Provide a view into the future of anesthesiology.
2: Discuss how the coming changes will impact the safety of anesthesia care.
3: Review the current status of health care in the United States.
4: Address the issue of physician shortages vs right-sizing.
5: Assess the changing practice of health care delivery.