24th Annual UC Davis Anesthesiology Update: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery

There has been a paradigm shift in the delivery of healthcare over the past several years. Utilizing multimodal perioperative clinical pathways, the goal is to enhance patient recovery following major surgery. Supplanting traditional approaches to health care with evidence based “best practice” enhanced care clinical pathways can improve patient pain control, decrease length of hospital stay and decrease the incidence of post-operative complications. Some of the topics to be covered in this year’s conference include: an overview of the concept of “enhanced recovery after surgery”, optimal pain control for total knee arthroplasty, outpatient continuous pain catheters, perioperative strategies for the opioid tolerant patient, prevention of hospital acquired infections and pressure ulcers and optimal anesthetic techniques in the pediatric patient, and patients undergoing vascular and thoracic surgery. Our goal is to improve the quality of health care while reducing complications and expenses.

This year’s conference will specifically address these indentified education needs and provide practitioners with state-of-the-art tools to provide improved treatment options for their patients. Faculty presenting and interacting with participants at this activity have been selected on the basis of their comprehensive clinical experience and academic excellence