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 improve the efficiency of preoperative evaluations and the perioperative management of anticoagulant therapy in patients undergoing ophthalmic procedures. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:
1: Choose laboratory evaluations with the greatest significance for a patient’s management.
2: Identify cardiovascular, pulmonary, and endocrine risk factors that require management or observation in a patient scheduled for ophthalmic surgery.
3: Recognize the factors that influence the pharmacokinetics of warfarin.
4:Calculate a patient’s international normalized ratio (INR) and explain the importance of maintaining it within the therapeutic range.
5: Evaluate the risks and benefits of discontinuing anticoagulation before ophthalmic surgery.
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 improve the efficiency of preoperative evaluations and the perioperative management of anticoagulant therapy in patients undergoing ophthalmic procedures. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:
1: Choose laboratory evaluations with the greatest significance for a patient’s management.
2: Identify cardiovascular, pulmonary, and endocrine risk factors that require management or observation in a patient scheduled for ophthalmic surgery.
3: Recognize the factors that influence the pharmacokinetics of warfarin.
4:Calculate a patient’s international normalized ratio (INR) and explain the importance of maintaining it within the therapeutic range.
5: Evaluate the risks and benefits of discontinuing anticoagulation before ophthalmic surgery.
