Peri-Operative Management of The Adult Surgical Patient With Diabetes Mellitus 2017

Peri-Operative Management of The Adult Surgical Patient With Diabetes Mellitus is organized by The Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (AAGBI) and would be held on Nov 20, 2017 atAssociation of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland, London, England, United Kingdom.

Diabetes mellitus is becoming a global epidemic. The drugs used to treat diabetes have changed dramatically in the last 20 years. The surgical patient with diabetes is becoming more common, and diabetes is a risk factor for a worse surgical outcome. It is now becoming increasingly appreciated that the surgical patient with diabetes has modifiable risk factors as well as non modifiable.

Objectives :

• Appreciate the diabetes pandemic
• Appreciate the modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors associated with surgery on the patient with diabetes
• Examine ways of making the sliding scale/VRIII safer
• Examine the pharmacology of the diabetes medications
• Examine the advantages and disadvantages with regional anaesthesia in the diabetic patient
• Examine the benefits of undertaking day surgery for the patient with diabetes
• Examine the issues in the management of the puerperal patient with diabetes
• Examine the issues in the management of the emergency surgical patient with diabetes
• Examine common pitfalls in the management of the surgical patient with diabetes

Additional Details will be posted as soon as they are available.