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 General Surgery is specifically designed to provide the participant with state-of-the-art information, including, but not limited to:
Hazards in the operating room
Professional liability, risk management, and quality improvement
Blood products and transfusion issues
Comorbid illness in the surgical patient
Surgical management of oncologic conditions
Intraoperative and postoperative infection
Preoperative patient evaluation, including surgical risk assessment
Critical care, postoperative recovery and complications
Management of acute and chronic pain
Trauma and burns
The goal of this program is to improve pediatric laparoscopic surgery, laparoscopic pouch surgery, and management of specific complications of minimally invasive surgery (MIS). After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:
1: Describe laparoscopic techniques used to repair inguinal hernias and the correction of pectus excavatum in pediatric patients and list their advantages over open surgery.
2: Explain the potential advantages and benefits (as well as limitations) of using the da Vinci robotic system in pediatric MIS.
3: Evaluate the limitations of laparoscopic restorative proctocolectomy.
4: Identify major categories of complications that are specific to MIS.
5: Predict specific complications associated with tools commonly used in MIS.
Audio-Digest General Surgery is specifically designed to provide the participant with state-of-the-art information, including, but not limited to:
Hazards in the operating room
Professional liability, risk management, and quality improvement
Blood products and transfusion issues
Comorbid illness in the surgical patient
Surgical management of oncologic conditions
Intraoperative and postoperative infection
Preoperative patient evaluation, including surgical risk assessment
Critical care, postoperative recovery and complications
Management of acute and chronic pain
Trauma and burns
The goal of this program is to improve pediatric laparoscopic surgery, laparoscopic pouch surgery, and management of specific complications of minimally invasive surgery (MIS). After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:
1: Describe laparoscopic techniques used to repair inguinal hernias and the correction of pectus excavatum in pediatric patients and list their advantages over open surgery.
2: Explain the potential advantages and benefits (as well as limitations) of using the da Vinci robotic system in pediatric MIS.
3: Evaluate the limitations of laparoscopic restorative proctocolectomy.
4: Identify major categories of complications that are specific to MIS.
5: Predict specific complications associated with tools commonly used in MIS.
