25th Annual UC Davis Anesthesiology Update 2014

There has been a paradigm shift in the delivery of healthcare over the past several years. Last year, the conference focused on multimodal perioperative clinical pathways that would enhance patient recovery following major surgery. The goal of this year’s conference will be to expand upon these ideas. By 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: the role of the anesthesiologist in a interdisciplinary team approach to enhanced recovery following surgery, optimal perioperative pain control using multimodal approach, perioperative strategies for the opioid tolerant patient, optimal anesthetic techniques for the pediatric patient, optimal regional anesthesia pain control following thoracic surgery, substance abused and the healthcare professional, general and cognitive decline anesthesia, anticoagulant in the perioperative period, and conflicts in acute pain management. Our goal is to improve the quality of health care while reducing complications and expenses.