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 increase knowledge of the impact of anesthetic choice on outcome after lower extremity total joint replacement and in aortic surgery. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:
1: Review techniques for reducing thromboembolic complications after elective lower extremity joint replacement.
2: Analyze the impact of anesthetic choice and technique on perioperative blood loss, cognitive function, risk for infection, peripheral nerve injury, and peripheral blood flow.
3: Discuss the outcome studies about the use of epidural anesthesia and/or analgesia in aortic surgery.
4: Explain the transient interest in combined epidural/general technique for aortic repair.
5: Recognize the potential role of epidural cooling in thoracoabdominal aortic repair.