32nd Annual Conference: Challenges for Clinicians

32nd Annual Conference: Challenges for Clinicians is organized by The University of Chicago - Center for Continuing Medical Education and will be held from Nov 30 - Dec 02, 2018 at The Drake, a Hilton Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America.

The target audience for this medical event is anesthesiologists, certified registered nurse anesthetists, and other clinicians and health care professionals interested in the fields of anesthesiology and pain medicine. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 17 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits of CME points.

Conference Description:
The scope and complexity of anesthesia care has dramatically increased along with the evolving landscape of perioperative medicine. New techniques, new drugs, new evidence, and new quality and safety concerns all play a role in today’s practice environment. Increasingly, we need to know how to make good care decisions, evaluate and apply evidence, maximize safety, and measure outcomes. This conference will focus on how to optimize perioperative care to function in today’s perioperative environment.

Conference Objectives:
At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:
• Describe the peri-partum management of preeclampsia in 2018;
• Describe the role of the anesthesiologist in modern trauma care;
• Explain the conceptual basis for current models of hemodynamic homeostasis and their modern diagnostic and management approaches;
• Discuss the relevance of the journal Anesthesiology in 2018;
• Describe how the pain experience throughout the human lifespan affects the approach to anesthesiology cases;
• Summarize the relevance of health care disparities to the obstetric anesthesia provider;
• Describe the emergency management of the pediatric patient employed by an anesthesia provider ;
• Assess the evolving definition of perioperative myocardial infarction;
• Identify lessons from aviation safety that translate to anesthesia practice;
• Describe the current epidemiology of stenotic heart disease and implications for anesthesia management;
• Discuss the role of acute care prescribing in the opioid epidemic;
• Identify key communication strategies to prepare the parent for anesthesia management in pediatric surgery.

ABMS Core Competencies:
• Patient Care and Procedural Skills
• Medical Knowledge
• Practice-based Learning and Improvement
• Interpersonal and Communication Skills
• Professionalism
• Systems-based Practice

Workshops:
Optional Ultrasound Workshop - Saturday, December 1st, 1:00pm – 4:30pm
Satisfy your MOCA Requirements - Thursday, November 29th, 8am – 4pm

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