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30th Annual Conference: Challenges for Clinicians
Target Audience
This activity has been designed for anesthesiologists, certified registered nurse anesthetists, and other clinicians and health care professionals interested in the fields of anesthesiology and pain medicine.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this educational activity, participants will be able to:
- Discuss the evidence supporting hemodynamic targets in the Operating room and consequences of not meeting these targets;
- State how to extend perioperative practice to include comprehensive pain management from the preoperative period to the postoperative period;
- Identify current areas of malpractice risk and strategies for mitigating that risk during perioperative care;
- Describe current evidence and recommended management for perioperative myocardial infarction;
- Discuss state of the art practices in central line insertion including strategies for avoiding anatomic complications such as arterial puncture and pneumothorax, reducing central line-associated blood stream infection (CLABSI), and improving first pass success rates;
- Examine controversies in obstetric anesthesia including labor analgesia, adjunct agents for maternal hemorrhage, and oxygen for cesarean section;
- Summarize the emerging use of transthoracic echo to guide perioperative and shock resuscitation;
- Manage perioperative mechanical ventilation, including PEEP, driving pressure, and tidal volume;
- Explain perioperative neuromonitoring and anesthetic strategies for neurosurgical procedures with neuromonitoring.
- 19.75 AANA CEs
- 21.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 21.00 Participation
Check-in: 3:00pm
Check-out: 12:00pm
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The University of Chicago reserves the right to cancel or postpone this conference due to unforeseen circumstances. In the unlikely event this activity must be cancelled or postponed, the registration fee will be refunded; however, The University of Chicago is not responsible for any related costs, charges, or expenses to participants, including fees assessed by airline/travel/lodging agencies.
CONFERENCE CO-DIRECTORS
Professor & Chair of Anesthesia and Critical Care
Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care
Professor and Quality Chief for Anesthesia
Director of Critical Care Services, Burn Unit
Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care
Disclosure Declarations
As a provider accredited by the ACCME, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine asks everyone who is in a position to control the content of an education activity to disclose all relevant financial relationships with anycommercial interest. This includes any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by or used on patients. The ACCME defines “relevant financial relationships” as financial relationships in any amount occurring within the past 12 months, including financial relationships of a spouse or life partner that could create a conflict of interest. Mechanisms are in place to identify and resolve any potential conflict of interest prior to the start of the activity.
Additionally, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine requires authors to identify investigational products or off-label uses of products regulated by the US Food and Drug Administration, at first mention and where appropriate in the content.
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 14 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 6 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 4 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
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