Track: Perioperative Medicine
ACE 2020 – Issue 17 A & B—Available for preorder!
Put your anesthesiology knowledge to the test with this ASA best-seller. Challenge your knowledge of the fundamentals in anesthesia, including subspecialty content tailored to the generalist. The ACE program will keep you current with clinical and professional guidelines, as well as help in meeting your commitment to lifelong learning. ACE is a great learning resource for physician anesthesiologists, anesthesiology residents and members of the anesthesia care team. Part A will be available in April 2020. Part B will be available in October 2020.
Deadlines to claim credit: Part A: 04/30/2021; Part B: 10/31/2021
SEE 2020 – Volume 36 A & B
Translate emerging anesthesia knowledge into your daily practice with SEE. Assess your grasp of emerging anesthesia concepts with content aggregated from more than 30 international medical journals with SEE. Receive the most important content on subjects ranging from clinical anesthesia, critical care and pain management. Stay abreast of the development of new drugs and techniques that are both relevant to your current practice and will shape your future practice. Part A is available now. Part B will be available in July 2020.
Deadlines to claim credit: Part A: 01/31/2021; Part B: 07/31/2021
Cases from the Perioperative Surgical Home Case 6 - Enhancing Accountable Care Performance
Improve your knowledge and competence about the Perioperative Surgical Home (PSH) with this three-module online course. The PSH is a patient-centric, team-based system of coordinated care which guides patients through the entire surgical experience, from the decision to undergo surgery to discharge and beyond. It enables institutions to deliver a positive impact on patient outcomes and population health. By taking this course, you will:
- Discover how Bellin Health Partners transformed their model of care with the PSH.
- Learn the requirements for the next generation of ACOs.
- Recognize accountable care performance.
Target Audience: physician anesthesiologists, C-suite health system leaders, physicians involved in system-based thinking and quality improvement, anesthesiologist assistants, CRNAs, nurses involved in quality improvement, perioperative pharmacist
Expiration Date: 12/3/2020
Cases from the Perioperative Surgical Home Case 5 - Perspectives on PSH: Implementation in an Academic Medical Center
Improve your knowledge and competence about the Perioperative Surgical Home (PSH) with this 3-module online course. The PSH is a patient-centric, team-based system of coordinated care which guides patients through the entire surgical experience, from the decision to undergo surgery to discharge and beyond. It enables institutions to deliver a positive impact on patient outcomes and population health.
By taking this course, you will discover:
- Describe the unique opportunities and challenges to PSH in an academic setting
- Identify strategies for growing the PSH successfully
- Illustrate the use of PSH in an academic institution to address a major public health concern: The Opiate Crisis
Target Audience: physician anesthesiologists, C-suite health system leaders, physicians involved in system-based thinking and quality improvement, anesthesiologist assistants, CRNAs, nurses involved in quality improvement, perioperative pharmacist
Expiration Date: 12/3/2020
Cases from the Perioperative Surgical Home Case 4 - Scaling your PSH Clinical Operations Across Multiple Healthcare Facilities
Improve your knowledge and understanding about the Perioperative Surgical Home (PSH) with this 3-module online course. The PSH is a patient-centric, team-based system of coordinated care which guides patients through the entire surgical experience, from the decision to undergo surgery to discharge and beyond. It enables institutions to deliver a positive impact on patient outcomes and population health. By taking this course, you will discover:
- How to make a business case for PSH coordinated care opportunities.
- Key measures of success and infrastructure needs to scale clinical initiatives.
- How to express the impact of clinical initiatives with outcome data.
Expiration Date: 12/3/2020
Journal CME - 2019 September
Read the article by Murphy and Szokol entitled “Intraoperative Methadone in Surgical Patients: A Review of Clinical Investigations.”
This online activity educates readers on current developments in the science and clinical practice of anesthesiology.
Successful completion of this activity will enable you to:
- Describe the pharmacologic characteristics of methadone
- Discuss perioperative outcomes
- Identify patient attributes that require methadone dose adjustment
Expiration Date: 8/12/2022
ACE 2019 - Issue 16 A & B
Put your anesthesiology knowledge to the test with this ASA best-seller. Challenge your knowledge of the fundamentals in anesthesia, including subspecialty content tailored to the generalist. The ACE program will keep you current with clinical and professional guidelines, as well as help in meeting your commitment to lifelong learning. ACE is a great learning resource for physician anesthesiologists, anesthesiology residents and members of the anesthesia care team.
Deadline to claim credit: Part A: 04/30/2020; Part B: 10/31/2020
Journal CME - 2019 May
Read the article by Miller and Myles entitled “Perioperative Fluid Therapy for Major Surgery.”
This online activity educates readers on current developments in the science and clinical practice of anesthesiology. .
Expiration Date: 4/15/2022
Patient Safety Highlights 2018 - Bringing Emergency Manuals to Your Institution. A Step-by-Step Guide for Successful Implementation
This seminar will utilize tools and techniques from quality improvement, implementation science and project management to help attendees create a plan to implement emergency manuals at their own institutions. Following short didactic sessions, learners will work through phases of implementation and create a timeline, including identification of champions, stakeholder analysis, leadership buy-in, selection, modification, and testing of a checklist, development of an education and training plan, and creation of a maintenance and measurement plan.
Expiration Date: 02/07/2022
Cases from the Perioperative Surgical Home Case: Transitioning the PSH to a Health System
This online course will improve your knowledge and competence in the Perioperative Surgical Home (PSH). As health care reform continues to gain momentum nationwide, providers are facing increasing pressure to demonstrate value-based care, which consists of cost-effective, high-quality care that delivers exceptional patient experiences.
Expiration Date: 12/03/2020
SEE 2019 - Volume 35 A & B Electronic
Translate emerging anesthesia knowledge into your daily practice with SEE. Assess your grasp of emerging anesthesia concepts with content aggregated from more than 30 international medical journals with SEE. Receive the most important content on subjects ranging from clinical anesthesia, critical care and pain management. Stay abreast of the development of new drugs and techniques that are both relevant to your current practice and will shape your future practice.
Expiration Date: Part A 01/31/2020, Part B 07/31/2020
SEE 2019 - Volume 35 A & B Booklet
Translate emerging anesthesia knowledge into your daily practice with SEE. Assess your grasp of emerging anesthesia concepts with content aggregated from more than 30 international medical journals with SEE. Receive the most important content on subjects ranging from clinical anesthesia, critical care and pain management. Stay abreast of the development of new drugs and techniques that are both relevant to your current practice and will shape your future practice.
Expiration Date: Part A 01/31/2020, Part B 07/31/2020
Smoking Cessation in Surgical Patients: How to Help Your Patients Quit and Why It's Important 2018
We know that smoking is the leading cause of pulmonary and cardiovascular disease and a risk for poor outcomes in the perioperative period. Anesthesia professionals feel a responsibility to the patient to aid in smoking cessation, but often do not know the best way to initiate this discussion or to provide the best resources. In this module, we will review the health risks of smoking, the risk that are particular to the perioperative period, how to support smoking cessation as a teachable moment and review resources available to all patients. In addition, we will review the current evidence on the safety of e-cigarettes and other alternatives to conventional smoking methods.
Expiration Date: 11/15/2021
2018 Refresher Courses in Anesthesiology - Full Subscription
2018 Refresher Courses in Anesthesiology (RCA) - The latest research and educational findings THIS IS AN ONLINE COURSE - NO HARDCOPY BOOKS ARE AVAILABLE. This online program includes 15 edited and peer-reviewed lectures selected from the ASA Refresher Courses presented at ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2017. Each module contains the author’s manuscript, a pre-test and post-test. Plus, select modules contain author interviews in a podcast format. Receive immediate access to the first three modules, plus the monthly-released module, when you purchase the full subscription! Credit Information: 15 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ for the full subscription. 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ for each module.
Expiration Date: 7/22/2022
2017 Refresher Courses in Anesthesiology - January 2018 - Perioperative Glucose Control: Creating a Shared Mental Model
Creation of an Institutional Program to optimize glucose control across the surgical experience.
Expiration Date: 01/22/2021
Journal CME - 2017 February
ASA/SCA Basic Perioperative TEE
The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) have collaborated with the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists (SCA) and iTeachU to deliver the Basic Perioperative TEE program. This training and accreditation program complies with the provisions set out by the National Board of Echocardiography.
Expiration Date: 04/13/2020
Difficult Airway Algorithm
Free to ASA members! We know how hard it is to keep up with the expanding number of emerging treatment advances while managing a busy practice. We developed this algorithm so you can quickly get clinical guideline information and recommendations on the management of the difficult airway. If needed, you can also get easy access to the full guideline.
Expiration Date: 07/10/2020
Medication Safety and Drug Errors
Learn how to reduce medication errors and improve patient safety in the operating room. Follow and complete required actions in the medication administration process to change both behavior and processes to eliminate medication errors. This program educates through the use of compelling video and knowledge checks, and is available exclusively online.
Expiration Date: 11/21/2020
Patient Safety Highlights 2017 - Full Subscription
Learn from some of the outstanding sessions presented at ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2017 selected to help fulfill MOCA 2.0® Part 2 Patient Safety. Test your knowledge.
Expiration Date: 01/11/2021
2017 Refresher Courses in Anesthesiology - Full Subscription
This online program includes 16 edited and peer-reviewed lectures selected from the ASA Refresher Courses presented at ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2016. Each module contains the author’s manuscript, a pre-test and post-test. Plus, select modules contain author interviews in a podcast format.
Expiration Date: 07/16/2021
Journal CME - 2018 Full Subscription
ASA’s journal, Anesthesiology, offers a CME program linked to its articles. The Anesthesiology CME Editors choose an article out of each month’s journal and write thought-provoking questions (six each month) associated with that article. The article, learning objectives, and an explanation of the program appear each month in the printed journal. By subscribing to the program and answering questions online, the user can receive up to 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ per issue.
Expiration Date: 11/12/2021
Safe Sedation Training - SSTmoderate
Non-anesthesiologist physicians will want to know and use the most current practice to provide safe and effective moderate sedation to their patients. Make Safe Sedation Training the basis for credentialing at your facility with SSTmoderate. Group discounts available!
Expiration Date: 09/24/2020
Journal CME - 2017 Full Subscription
ASA's journal, Anesthesiology, offers a CME program linked to its articles. The Anesthesiology CME Editors choose an article out of each month’s journal and write thought-provoking questions (six each month) associated with that article. The article, learning objectives, and an explanation of the program appear each month in the printed journal. By subscribing to the program and answering questions online, the user can receive up to 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ per issue.
Expiration Date: 11/13/2020