Patient Safety Highlights - Patient Selection For Ambulatory Surgery: Can Any Patient Be an Outpatient?

Patient Safety Highlights - Patient Selection For Ambulatory Surgery: Can Any Patient Be an Outpatient? is organized by American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) and will be held during Nov 18, 2015 - Nov 17, 2018.

The target audience for this medical event is Anesthesiologists, Thoracic Surgeons, Urologists. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.

Conference Description:
This lecture will discuss the current literature that allows appropriate patient selection, particularly in high-risk patients with patients with difficult airways, morbid obesity, obstructive sleep apnea, cardiac comorbidities including patients with pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators.

Conference Objectives are:
• Review the current science regarding patient selection for ambulatory surgery.
• Identify the approach to determining patient selection for ambulatory surgery.
• Justify appropriate selection of adult patients with obesity, sleep apnea, cardiac implantable electronic devices, coronary stents scheduled for ambulatory surgery.