Location

Please check the individual session for location or broadcast availability.  

Frequency

Weekly

Series Director

Jaime Ortiz, MD, MBA

Target Audience and Needs

Physicians, faculty, anesthesiologists, fellows, residents and medical students at Baylor College of Medicine need to be regularly updated with new advances and guidelines in anesthesiology to increase clinical knowledge, and implement them in clinical practice to improve competence and enhance the quality of patient care and outcomes. 

Educational Methods

Educational methods will include lectures, case presentations, literature review, panel discussion, and systems-based practice.

Objectives

At the conclusion of the sessions, the participants should be able to:

• Discuss recent advances in surgical technique and critical care management of patients after trauma.
• Apply point-of-care ultrasound techniques to daily patient care to improve perioperative management of patients.
• Demonstrate knowledge of alternative medications to use during shortages in order to be able to continue providing quality perioperative care of patients.
• Explain how to handle ethical challenges faced during perioperative care.
• Provide safe management of patients who present for surgery and anesthesia with cardiovascular implantable electronic devices.

Evaluation

Participants may be asked to complete a session evaluation.

Accreditation/Credit Designation

Baylor College of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Baylor College of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Series Coordinator