Redesigning the Perioperative Process: Prehabilitation, ERAS and Pain Management 2016

Redesigning the Perioperative Process : Prehabilitation, ERAS and Pain Management is organized by University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Center (UPMC) for Continuing Education and would be held held during Nov 4 - 6, 2016 at Nemacolin Woodlands Resort, Farmington, Pennsylvania, United States of America.

The target audience for this medical event basically for Physicians involved in the perioperative process, anesthesiologists, surgeons, anesthesia residents, anesthesia fellows, pharmacists, CRNAs, SRNAs, CRNPs, anesthesia assistants, nurses, medical students and other health care professionals involved with perioperative care. This CME Conference has been approved with a maximum of 15 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.

Conference Objectives :
• Identify the health care drivers requiring the redesign of the perioperative process
• Discuss the concept of prehabilitation
• Review the concept of frailty and how it might impact perioperative outcome
• Discuss the role of the advanced practice provider in optimization of patients for surgery
• Define the concept of enhanced recovery after surgery
• Review new approaches to perioperative fluid management
• Describe current methods of regional anesthetic/analgesic techniques for acute and perioperative pain management
• Describe the effect of surgery, anesthesia, and perioperative care on the immune system and on oncologic and infectious outcomes
• Review complex persistent pain conditions
• Discuss recommendations for an “immune system preserving” approach to intraoperative and postoperative care
• Discuss patient satisfaction in pain management
• Achieve improved patient outcomes through the successful adoption of regional anesthesia practice.

This Conference is Limited to 30 participants only.