Anesthesiology CME

Learn from the Experts: Advances in Anesthesiology

Comprehensive Review of Anesthesiology, an online video CME program, highlights the core concepts of conducting anesthesia and stresses the implementation of perioperative best practices to facilitate enhanced recovery after surgery.

Directed by Jeffrey S. Berger, MD and Eric R. Heinz, MD, this review includes case-based lectures covering a broad range of topics, including preoperative assessment and evaluation, cardiac anesthesia, the opioid crisis, robotic anesthesia, ERAS, physician impairment, and more. It’s contininuing medical education that will help you to better:

• Recognize scientific principles that guide basic anesthetic management
• Formulate a thoughtful anesthetic plan for a variety of subspecialties
• Compare the techniques and technology available at your facility with best practices
• Plan for incorporation of new knowledge into routine practice

Discover New Guidelines with Online CME

This online CME program — tailored to anesthesiologists who care for patients of all ages in ambulatory and inpatient settings — provides a general review of common pediatric anesthesia challenges, as well as clinical pearls and procedure-specific considerations for the young patient.

Led by University of Minnesota’s Jakob Guenther, MD, expert speakers in Pediatric Anesthesia for General Anesthesiologists discuss physiology, pharmacology, preoperative/postoperative considerations, congenital heart defects, pain control, airway management, and more.

Additional continuing medical education lectures focus on frequent procedures and anesthetic challenges associated with specific specialties (ENT, dental, neurosurgery, urology, orthopedics, etc).

Learning Objectives

At the completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Have a better overview about the differences in physiology, pharmacology and anatomy between adult and pediatric patients including more recent data and evidence for your daily practice, both for basic techniques of pediatric anesthesia, as well as procedure specific strategies
• Approach pediatric patients with a focus on their specific needs in the preoperative (anxiety, agitation), intraoperative (physiology, fluid requirements, airway management) and postoperative (emergence, PO(N)V, airway complication) setting
• Have guidance how to optimize anesthetic technique for common procedures and conditions
• Have more background information about invasive and complex procedures, conditions (congenital heart disease) and interventions. Those procedures may not be part of your practice, but that the patient either went through them or will have to go through them in the future. Both past and future interventions may have implications on how to approach the patient’s anesthetic management while the patient is under your care

Intended Audience

This activity is designed for anesthesiology residents, pediatric anesthesia fellows, and general anesthesiologists.

Discover New Guidelines with Online CME

This online CME program — tailored to anesthesiologists who care for patients of all ages in ambulatory and inpatient settings — provides a general review of common pediatric anesthesia challenges, as well as clinical pearls and procedure-specific considerations for the young patient.

Led by University of Minnesota’s Jakob Guenther, MD, expert speakers in Pediatric Anesthesia for General Anesthesiologists discuss physiology, pharmacology, preoperative/postoperative considerations, congenital heart defects, pain control, airway management, and more.

Additional continuing medical education lectures focus on frequent procedures and anesthetic challenges associated with specific specialties (ENT, dental, neurosurgery, urology, orthopedics, etc)

Learning Objectives

At the completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Have a better overview about the differences in physiology, pharmacology and anatomy between adult and pediatric patients including more recent data and evidence for your daily practice, both for basic techniques of pediatric anesthesia, as well as procedure specific strategies
• Approach pediatric patients with a focus on their specific needs in the preoperative (anxiety, agitation), intraoperative (physiology, fluid requirements, airway management) and postoperative (emergence, PO(N)V, airway complication) setting
• Have guidance how to optimize anesthetic technique for common procedures and conditions
• Have more background information about invasive and complex procedures, conditions (congenital heart disease) and interventions. Those procedures may not be part of your practice, but that the patient either went through them or will have to go through them in the future. Both past and future interventions may have implications on how to approach the patient’s anesthetic management while the patient is under your care

Intended Audience

This activity is designed for anesthesiology residents, pediatric anesthesia fellows, and general anesthesiologists.

The Cleveland Clinic Ultrasound Workshop focuses on developing foundational diagnostic and procedural skills that can be quickly applied to clinical practice. Physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners across multiple specialties will benefit from lectures and demonstrations from more than twenty expert educators. This activity will provide a greater understanding of ultrasound as an imaging and interventional tool. As such, the lessons learned should have a direct impact on patient care. Worth 9.5 AMA PRA Category I Credits™, with ANCC and AAPA accreditation provided as well!

Anesthesiology Online is an online informational and educational resource for anesthesia professionals. You will not be able to view any content until you have registered and paid your fee. However, you will be allowed to view several abstracts before registering.

Target Audience: ANES

This course provides a foundation in the core concepts of ultrasound machine operation, needle guidance, and sonoanatomy of the femoral nerve, sciatic nerve and brachial plexus.

Upon successful completion of this course, you will:
• Understand ultrasound principles and machine operation for image acquisition and optimization
• Understand techniques for ultrasound guided needle placement
• Have a solid understanding of the anatomy and sonoanatomy of the femoral region, sciatic nerve and posterior thigh, and the neck and brachial plexus
• Gain essential strategies on how to use sonographic landmarks to identify nerve targets.

Target Audience:
Anesthesiologists, Residents, medical students, other physicians and allied health professionals performing or assisting with ultrasound guided regional anesthesia procedures.

Each activity focuses on the pre-anesthetic assessment for one condition. Recent activities include:
• Perioperative Pain Management of the Patient With Chronic Pain
• PreAnesthetic Assessment of the Pediatric Patient with Osteopetrosis and Lung Mass
• PreAnesthetic Assessment of the Patient With Cirrhosis-Related Pulmonary Complications
• Preanesthetic Assessment of the Patient with an Advance Directive
• PreAnesthetic Considerations for a Patient With Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia
• Preanesthetic Assessment of the Child with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

Target Audience: Anesthiesiologists

These areas are covered:
Goal Directed Therapy ,Early Goal Directed Therapy, Hemodynamic Monitoring, Glucose Monitoring / Diabetes and Critical Care Pharmacology.

Some recent titles are:
• Making the Case for Glycemic Control: Is it a Matter of Tightness or Timing?
• Advanced Hemodynamic Monitoring
• Cardiac Output Monitoring vs. TEE/TTEGoal-Directed Therapy in the Operating Room
• Physiologic Optimization Program: Physiology Based Fluid Management
• Extravascular Lung Water: Clinical Implications
• Critical Care Pharmacotherapy Literature Updates
• Severe Sepsis: Early Recognition & Management Saves Lives
• The Use of Dynamic Parameters in Perioperative Fluid Management
• Current Trends in Management of Blood Glucose in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Target Audience: Physicians focusing on Anesthesiology, Critical Care, ER, Hospital Medicine, and Pediatrics (ICU).

Activity Description / Statement of Need:

In this online, self-learning activity: Goal-directed therapy (GDT) has been taken as the gospel in critical care since the publication of Rivers et al.’s seminal paper on the topic demonstrating a mortality benefit in patients with severe sepsis and related shock in late 2001. Its protocols were soon embraced and became ensconced in practice as standards of care, overlapping with other, high-acuity areas of medical specialty like surgery and emergency medicine. One challenge has been the conventional approach’s embrace a ‘recipe-book’ or one-size-fits all approach with directed by static parameters. The literature clearly demonstrates that indiscriminate administration of fluids is associated with a number of complications, increased length of stay, and mortality in a diverse array of patient populations, findings all the more important because only half of hemodynamically unstable patients respond to fluids. The benefits of dynamic monitoring strategies in a range of patient populations have been borne out not only by meta-analyses but also recent clinical trial evidence. 

Target Audience:

Physicians and nurses in the following areas of specialty: Anesthesiology, critical care, emergency medicine, and surgery.

By the end of the session the participant will be able to:

• Describe the CMS goal of resuscitation in severe sepsis and septic shock.
• Recognize potential adverse outcomes of under and over resuscitation of the critically ill.
• Understand variability indices and changes in stroke volume to predict volume responsiveness.
• Recognize applications and limitations of non-invasive hemodynamic monitoring.
• Recognize potential benefits of guided volume resuscitation strategies.

CME activities of special interest to anesthesiologists. Medscape contains a variety of educational formats:

CONFERENCE COVERAGE – Reports of advances presented at major medical conferences; typically includes several tracks with news stories, expert interviews, and in-depth topic overviews.

CLINICAL UPDATE – Comprehensive original review article on scientific advances in a clinical topic.

FAST TRACK CLINICAL UPDATE – Narrowly focused original review article on scientific advances in a clinical topic.

CME-LIVE – Real-time online events with streaming video, synchronized visuals, and interactive questions and answers; archived for 1 year.

CLINICAL BRIEFS – Daily reports of major current medical research articles; 0.25 credits each

JOURNAL CME – Articles selected from a wide selection of peer-reviewed journals.

SPECIAL REPORT CME – Topic-based monthly email newsletter distributed to Medscape’s professional member database by specialty.

INTERACTIVE PATIENT CASES – Original CME activity presented to the physician in an interactive, clinical case-based format. (See especially eMedicine CME Case Presentations.)
CME CIRCLE – Multimedia content certified by other accredited professional education providers, typically from live symposia or monographs, and then posted on Medscape and archived for one year.

Target Audience: Anesthiesiologists