OVERVIEW

Non-Operating Room Anesthesia (NORA) Education for Practitioners: Anesthesia for GI Endoscopic Procedures is organized by Penn Medicine - Continuing Medical and Interprofessional Education.

Release Date: October 25, 2019
End Date: July 25, 2022

Course Overview:
This course, “Non-Operating Room Anesthesia (NORA) Education for Practitioners,” has value not only to residency training programs, but can also be the standard teaching tool for the entire anesthesia provider team, including Staff Anesthesiologists, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists, and Procedural Physicians supervising the delivery of anesthesia in the NORA setting.

Objectives:
• Explain the rise of GI procedures in NORA
• Discuss the types of procedures, both basic and advanced, commonly done in the GI suite
• Review the challenges of common endoscopic procedures, including the “shared airway,” abnormal positioning, and pain
• Develop a common sense approach to airway management in the GI suite, including criteria for endotracheal intubation
• Explain how the use of closed claims can illuminate the difficulties and dangers of the NORA suite
• Describe the value of the ETCO2 monitor, and how oximetry alone does not ensure safe outcome
• Examine the common co-morbidities that our patients have, and how these issues may affect patient care
• Review the controversy of Anesthesia services for ASA I and II patients undergoing routine colonoscopy
• Incorporate the Pearls given into a common strategy of teamwork and collaboration