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CME: Surgical Quality Improvement

ACCREDITATION EXPIRED: July 03, 2016

Activity Description / Statement of Need:

In this online CME self-learning program:

 

Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) is a multimodal perioperative care pathway designed to attenuate the stress response during a patient’s surgical procedure and preserve organ function while promoting early recovery.  While this approach is not new, it has not always been widely employed in spite of supporting evidence from a range of randomized controlled trials, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses.  This literature suggests that ERAS programs are safe, cost-effective, and minimize the length of stay in a hospital without compromising quality of care. ERAS programs are successful in part because they are proactive in nature, comprised of interventions beginning during preoperative planning and continuing through intraoperative management and postoperative care.

 

Although the evidence suggests that the multimodal, ERAS approach may be superior to conventional perioperative care, there are a number of challenges to the adoption of ERAS where it is not already used, including: resistance to change, variability between components and compliance to ERAS protocols, and the need for an engaged multidisciplinary team.

 

Agenda

 

  • A brief history of Surgical Quality Improvement
  • The genesis of the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program
  • Different process, improved outcomes
  • The Carilion experience: challenges and rewards
  • The 5-step process
  • “Case” study – surgical site infections: home antisepsis, post-operative warming, and blood glucose control
  • The mortality reduction project
  • The role of goal-directed therapy
  • Pre- and intra-operative care
  • The multi-disciplinary team and enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS)

 

Target Audience:

This program has been designed for a multidisciplinary physician and nurse audience including: ICU / Anesthesia / Peri-op / Intensivists / Trauma / Critical Care

This program is supported by Educational Grants from Edwards Lifesciences.

Release Date: July 03, 2014 -- Expiration Date: July 03, 2016

Faculty: Sandy Fogel, MD

Agenda

Learning Objectives

By the end of the session the participant will be able to:

  • Recall the historical justification (observations prior to the early 2000s) for the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program as it exists today
  • Describe the impact of the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program on patient outcomes
  • Synthesize a hypothetical surgical quality improvement program based on the experience of other institutions

Accreditation

ACCREDITATION FOR THIS COURSE HAS EXPIRED. YOU MAY VIEW THE PROGRAM, BUT CME / CE IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE AND NO CERTIFICATE WILL BE ISSUED.


Faculty Disclosure and Resolution of COI

 As a provider of continuing medical education, it is the policy of ScientiaCME to ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all of its educational activities. In accordance with this policy, faculty and educational planners must disclose any significant relationships with commercial interests whose products or devices may be mentioned in faculty presentations, and any relationships with the commercial supporter of the activity. The intent of this disclosure is to provide the intended audience with information on which they can make their own judgments. Additionally, in the event a conflict of interest (COI) does exist, it is the policy of ScientiaCME to ensure that the COI is resolved in order to ensure the integrity of the CME activity. For this CME activity, any COI has been resolved through  content review ScientiaCME.

 

Faculty Disclosure: Dr.  Sandy Fogel, MD discloses that he is a consultant / speaker for Edwards Lifesciences.

 

Disclosures of Educational Planner: Charles Turck, PharmD is an officer and part owner of ScientiaCME, LLC, which has received a grant from the commercial supporter of this program: Edwards Lifesciences .

 

Commercial Support Disclosure: This program is supported by an educational grant from Edwards Lifesciences, a manufacturer of medical devices.

Instructions

  • Read the learning objectives above
  • Take the Pre-Test (optional). Completion of the pre-test will help us evaluate the knowledge gained by participating in this CME activity.
  • View the online activity. You may view this is in more than one session, and may pause or repeat any portion of the presentation if you need to.
  • Minimum participation threshold: Take the post-test. A score of 70% or higher is required to pass and proceed to the activity evaluation.
  • Complete the activity evaluation and CME registration. A CE certificate will be emailed to you immediately.

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PC
Windows 7 or above
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MAC
Mac OS 10.2.8
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Perform Pre-Test (optional)

Please take a few minutes to participate in the optional pre-test. It will help us measure the knowledge gained by participating in this activity.