Optimizing Acute Care Surgery: Enhancing Knowledge and Skills for Advanced Practitioners

Acute care surgery is a rapidly evolving medical specialty that applies the principles of trauma care to patients with urgent, time-sensitive surgical conditions. This multidisciplinary field combines three essential components: trauma, critical care, and emergency surgery. Over the past 20 years, acute care surgical services have become increasingly responsible for managing emergency general surgery across the United States.

As this specialty continues to expand, the utilization of advanced practitioners has become crucial. Mayo Clinic is at the forefront of sharing expert knowledge in this field, offering a unique opportunity for advanced practitioners to enhance their knowledge and skill sets in acute care surgery.

Target Audience

This course is specifically designed for advanced practitioners, including:

• Physician assistants
• Nurse practitioners

In addition, physicians, clinical nurse specialists, nurse educators, and nursing staff in trauma, acute care surgery, emergency medicine, and hospital medicine may also benefit from this course.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

• Describe a systematic approach to assessing and managing trauma and acute care patients
• Formulate an action plan based on scientific rationale, evidence-based standards of care, and practice management guidelines for trauma and acute care patients
• Choose appropriate and timely consultation and/or referral when necessary in trauma acute care surgery populations
• Describe whole blood management in trauma patients
• Define common organ failure syndromes in the critically ill, such as respiratory failure, shock, and sepsis
• Discuss management of pre and post-acute care surgical patients

Program Details

Don’t miss this opportunity to enhance your knowledge and skills in acute care surgery. The program will take place from September 8, 2022, to September 10, 2022.