Oakstone UPMC Perioperative Management Update 2021

UPMC Perioperative Management Update provides anesthesiologists and perioperative care team members with an up-to-date review of common topics that may not be encountered in daily practice.
This convenient online CME course explores key issues relevant to everyday practice — from the community hospital to the university medical center — including:

management and optimization of medical co-morbidities
major organ system pathology relative to perioperative care
operating room and practice management
difficult patient scenarios, including cardiac optimization
point-of-care testing and ultrasound
common pediatric and obstetrical problems
and more…

Learning Objectives
After viewing this program, participants will be better able to:
This course is designed to provide the anesthesiologist and Perioperative Care Team an up-to-date review of current topics relevant to perioperative management of the patient in 2021. Relevant issues dealing with everyday practice from the community hospital to the university medical center will be addressed. This includes topics in management and optimization of medical co-morbidities, review of major organ system pathology relative to perioperative care, operating room and practice management, quality improvement and the impact of COVID to name a few.
Target Audience
National audience via on-line learning platform.
This activity is intended for providers in the specialties of:
Anesthesiology
Critical Care (Intensivists)
Internal Medicine
Pain Management
TOPICS / SPEAKERS

Unmet Needs in Perioperative Care and Solutions – Stephen A. Esper MD, MBA
Preoperative Cardiac Evaluation for Non-Cardiac Surgery: What about the Patient with Pulmonary Hypertension – Harikesh Subramanian, MBBS
Perioperative Testing: What Is Required in 2021? – Stephen M. McHugh, MD, FASA
Perioperative Management: What about That Frail Patient, Do We Operate? – Sean A. Dechancie, DO
Perioperative Management: What Do We Do about That Pace Maker or Defibrillator? – Ryan Ball, MD, FASE
Perioperative Management: What Blood Components Do We Order and for What Indications? – Jonathan H. Waters, MD
Perioperative Management: What about Those Kidneys? – Joshua Knight, MD
Perioperative Management: Crystalloids, Colloids, What Fluid Do I Use? – Michael W. Best, MD, Maj, USAFR
Perioperative Management: How Do We Manage the Patient with Chronic Liver Disease? – Aisha P Ullah, MD
Perioperative Management: What about All Those Endocrine Issues? – Evan Lebovitz, MD
Perioperative Management: What about That Patient with an Acute Stroke in Interventional Radiology? – Brian Gierl, MD
Periopaerative Management: What Do I Do for the Acute Cerebral Bleed? – Peter J. Ritchie, MD
Perioperative Management: How Can I Ever Understand All Those Fancy Neurophysiology Monitors? – Brian Gierl, MD
Perioperative Management: COPD, Asthma, Sleep Apnea, What Do I Do? – Catalin S Ezaru, MD
Perioperative Management: How Do I Manage the Ventilator on That Patient with Pulmonary Failure? – A. Murat Kaynar, MD, MPH
Valvular Pathology in the Perioperative Setting – Elizabeth Ungerman, MD
Perioperative Management: How Do I Manage a Difficult Airway? – Andrew Herlich, DMD, MD, FAAP, FASA
Perioperative Management: Psychiatric Issues and ECT – Charles D. Boucek, MD, FASA
Perioperative Management: What are Common PACU Issues? – Li Meng, MD, MPH
Perioperative Management: How Do We Manage the Patient with Poly-substance Abuse? – Kristin M. Ondekco Ligda, MD, FASA
Perioperative Management: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery, Multimodal Analgesia, and Minimizing Narcotic Use – Gerhardt Konig, MD
Perioperative Management: Supplements and Anesthesia – High Yield Need to Know – Anthony T. Silipo, MD
Perioperative Management: Quality Improvement and How to Make Things Better – Dennis P. Phillips, DO
Perioperative Management: What is POCUS? – Michael Boisen, MD, FASE
Perioperative Management: Can Someone Please Give Me a Quick Tip on How to Do That Block? – Michelle Masnovi, MD
Perioperative Management: How Do I Handle the Pregnant Trauma Patient? – Kate Petty, MD
Perioperative Management: I Have to Cover an OB Shift, What are the Common Emergencies? – Patricia Dalby, MD
Perioperative Management: Common Pediatric Cases, How Do I Manage Them in the Community Hospital? – Denise Hall-Burton, MD
Perioperative Management: I Just Got a Patient with Down’s Syndrome, What Do I Need to Know? – Khoa N. Nguyen, MD
Perioperative Management: Congenital Heart Diseases, How Do I Handle Them? – Phillip Adams, DO
Perioperative Care: ICU Issues for the Anesthesiologist – Konstantinos Alfaras-Melainis, MD
Perioperative Management: How Do I Practice Safe Medicine in This Medical Malpractice Era? – Daniel R. Sullivan, MD, JD, MBA
Perioperative Management: Lessons Learned from the COVID Experience – Kimberly Cantees, MD, MBA
Perioperative Management: Basic Principles for Scheduling a Complex Operating Room – Shawn T. Beaman, MD, FASA
Perioperative Management: What Does the Future Look Like in Anesthesiology? – David G. Metro, MD, FASA
Date of Original Release: September 30, 2021
Date Credits Expire: September 30, 2024
Estimated Time to Complete: 22 hours 05 min 01 sec