Comprehensive Review of Anesthesiology: A Detailed Guide

This comprehensive review of anesthesiology is an online video CME program that focuses on the core concepts of conducting anesthesia and emphasizes 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.

Learning Objectives

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

• 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

Intended Audience

The activity is designed to update anesthesiology, intensive care, and pain medicine health care providers with core concepts and cutting-edge findings to increase the level of sophistication of perioperative management, pain medicine, and critical care medicine.

Topics and Speakers

Basic Sciences

• Pharmacology Gases – Adam W. Baca, MD
• Pharmacology Drugs – Adam W. Baca, MD
• Physiology Cardiopulmonary – Marc J. Popovich, MD, FCCM
• Neurologic System: Physiology – Raymond Pla, MD
• Physiology Renal – Raymond A. Pla, MD
• Breathing Systems and Their Use in the Operating Room – William Whitehead, MD, PhD
• Operating Room Safety – S. Lynn Knox, MD, FASA
• Patient Monitors in Anesthesiology – Eric R. Heinz, MD, PhD

Basic Clinical

• Preoperative Assessment and Evaluation – Gurwinder K. Gill, MD
• Anesthetic Planning – Eric R. Heinz, MD, PhD
• General Anesthesia and Management – Connor McNamara, MD, MS
• Neuraxial Anesthesia – Eric R. Heinz, MD, PhD
• Acute Pain Medicine and Regional Anesthesia – Emily Garmon, MD
• Emergence and Postoperative Care – Jarrett Heard, MD, MBA
• Complications Part 1 – Nilda Salaman, MD
• Complications Part 2 – Nilda Salaman, MD

Advanced Clinical

• Chronic Pain Medicine – Palak Turakhia, MD, MPH
• Cardiac Anesthesia Part 1 – K. Gage Parr, MD FASA
• Cardiac Anesthesia Part 2 – K. Gage Parr, MD FASA
• Thoracic Anesthesia – Geetha Shanmugam, MD
• Critical Care Medicine ARDS, Sepsis, Shock, and Vasopressors – Donald S. Prough, MD, FASA, FCCP, FAHA
• Critical Care Medicine VAD, IABP, and ECMO – Donald S. Prough, MD, FASA, FCCP, FAHA
• Topics in Neuroanesthesia – Stefanie R. Fischer, MD
• Obstetric Anesthesia – Michael Hofkamp, MD
• Pediatric Anesthesia – Carroll Labron Chambers, Jr., MD, MBA, FASA
• Abdominal Organ Transplantation for the Anesthesiologist – Shaun Yockelson, MD
• Trauma and Burn Anesthesia – Gurwinder K. Gill, MD
• Vascular Anesthesia – Adrienne B. Warrick, MD

Hot Topics

• Physician Impairment – Diana Zentko, MD
• Multimodal Analgesia in the time of an Epidemic – Palak Turakhia, MD, MPH
• Non-Operating Room Anesthesia – Mitchell H. Tsai, MD, MMM, FASA, FAACM
• Cardiac Anesthesia – Jacob Martin, MD
• New Peripheral Nerve Blocks – Emily Garmon, MD
• Fetal Surgery – Michelle S. Burnette, MD
• Perioperative Management of Older Adults – Marc J. Popovich, MD, FCCM
• Practice Management – Jarrett Heard, MD, MBA

Reviewed for Re-Release: April 30, 2023

Date Credits Expire: April 29, 2026