Mayo Clinic Symposium on Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine 2012

Mayo Clinic Symposium on Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine is a four-day symposium dedicated to anesthesia and perioperative management.

Mayo Clinic Symposium on Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine covers topics such as:

• Problems associated with coagulopathy and reversal of anticoagulation
• Current issues in hypothermia and cerebral protection
• Implications of informed consent and anesthesia care
• Concerns associated with anesthesia and intraoperative awareness
• The impact of simulation on perioperative care
• Perioperative smoking cessation
• Implications of heart failure on anesthetic management
• Implications of diabetes mellitus on perioperative care
• Perioperative statin use
• Intraoperative waveforms and images important for anesthesia care
• Future trends in the provision of anesthetic care
• Change management and their impact on patient safety
• Clinical conundrums in obstetric anesthesia
• Clinical pathways for joint replacement surgery
• Post operative respiratory monitoring
• Acute pain management for the chronic pain patient
• Multidisciplinary pain rehabilitation
• Safe and efficient dismissal for outpatient surgery
• Troponin levels during the perioperative period
• Risk factors for post operative cognitive dysfunction in the elderly
• The implications of liver disease on anesthesia and perioperative care
• Components of electrical safety in the operating room
• Discuss perioperative management of patients with coronary stents
• The implications of congenital heart disease for non cardiac surgery

Mayo Clinic Symposium on Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine brings together anesthesiology technicians, practicing anesthesiologists, nurse practitioners, nurse anesthetists, anesthesiologist assistants, physician assistants and perioperative health care providers.