Oakstone Perioperative Management 2025

• Target Audience: anesthesiology, critical care medicine, family practice, general surgery, hospitalist, internal medicine, nurse anesthetist, nurse practitioner, orthopedic surgery, pain medicine, physician assistant, and urology
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• Information:

This online CME course — created by the established leader in perioperative medicine specifically for clinicians who provide patient care before, during, and after surgery — delivers current and concise knowledge ideally suited to improving patient outcomes through perioperative evaluation, intraoperative management, and postoperative care.

Date of Original Release: May 15, 2025

Learning Objectives

After participating in this activity, the learner will demonstrate the ability to:

Describe current guidelines for preoperative cardiac and pulmonary risk assessment and list several ways to predict and prevent cardiac and pulmonary complications using preoperative testing and intraoperative and postoperative interventions

Recognize the risks of perioperative anemia and transfusion as well as the risks and benefits of perioperative anti-thrombotic therapies, and list several strategies to reduce bleeding and thrombotic complications through evidence-based approaches to anemia management, transfusion, coagulation testing, and pharmacologic interventions with anti-thrombotic and anti-fibrinolytic agents

Describe the perioperative complications associated with diabetes, renal insufficiency, liver disease, delirium, and frailty, and list current management strategies to optimize outcomes in patients with these medical conditions

Describe strategies to control acute postoperative pain, including in patients who chronically use opioids or cannabis

Recognize how to prevent, diagnose, and treat common healthcare associated infections that complicate surgical procedures

Recognize the perioperative implications of the growing use of newer pharmacologic therapies for diabetes, obesity, heart failure, and immunomodulators and the pros/cons of emerging physiologic monitoring technologies for use in the OR, PACU, and wards

Recognize the impact of burnout, and its relation to gender, race, and micro-aggressions, on clinician wellbeing and patient safety, and describe strategies to improve work-force wellbeing, communication, and the quality/safety of clinical care for of individual healthcare worker, patients, and the health system

Intended Audience

This activity is intended for anesthesiology, critical care medicine, family practice, general surgery, hospitalist, internal medicine, nurse anesthetist, nurse practitioner, orthopedic surgery, pain medicine, physician assistant, and urology.

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