Defining the culture of safety and elements that contribute to successfully implementing it. At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to identify key elements that contribute to a culture of safety.

Expiration Date: 02/07/2022

Patient Safety Highlights 2018 - Operating Room Efficiency: Could there be a Hidden Patient Safety Issue?

O.R. efficiency and patient safety should never be at odds with each other. Both concepts are realities that will always play a role in the perioperative arena. Different opinions exist about whether these forces have an inverse relationship. If efficiency is getting to the point of patient safety compromise, we need to slow down and reassess the situation.

Expiration Date: 02/07/2022

Patient Safety Highlights 2018 - Emergency Manual Implementations and Uses during Clinical Crises: Linking Research With Practice

Emergency manuals are context-relevant sets of cognitive aids, such as crisis checklists, in this case for perioperative contexts. Rationale for why to implement and use emergency manuals will be briefly presented, drawing from safety critical and high reliability industries, human factors concepts, and simulation-based healthcare studies.

Expiration Date: 02/07/2022

Patient Safety Highlights 2018 - Situational Awareness and Crisis Management: Strategies to Improve Patient Safety in Anesthesia Practice

Situational awareness (SA) is perception of elements in the environment, comprehension of that information, and ability to project future events. This lecture presents strategies to improve SA and crisis management skills during daily anesthesia practice to help improve patient outcome.

Expiration Date: 02/07/2022

Patient Safety Highlights 2018 - Fatigue Risk Management: Making Overnight Call Safer

This presentation will review the physiology of fatigue, discuss how overnight call and long shifts can affect patient safety and physician health, and then offer practical steps that can be used by every anesthesiologist who works overnight.

Expiration Date: 02/07/2022

Patient Safety Highlights 2018 - You Want Me to Give Anesthesia WHERE? Patient Safety in Non-OR Locations

The purpose of this 60 minute panel is to discuss perioperative morbidity and mortality after non-operative room procedures, as well as to identify some of the challenges to patient safety outside of the operating room, including location, equipment, personnel, and procedure. Finally, the panel will discuss ways to identify patient populations at increased risk for complications in non-OR locations.

Expiration Date: 02/07/2022

 Patient Safety Highlights 2018 - Harnessing Implementation Science Lessons to Guide Impactful Quality Improvement: Bridging the Gap

The primary goal of this session will be to introduce the key principles of implementation science as applied to perioperative quality improvement. Note: Panelist Dr. Steven Asch is an expert in implementation science who is Director of Center for Innovation to Implementation at VA Palo Alto and Professor at Stanford.

Expiration Date: 02/07/2022

This course is designed to improve the knowledge and performance of the practicing physician anesthesiologist who may provide intraoperative care for patients with complex health problems undergoing robotic surgical procedures. In this course, learners will practice the management of a patient undergoing robotic intra-abdominal surgery requiring effective differential diagnoses, rescue from unstable clinical conditions, resuscitation, frequent reassessment, and other emergent interventions using our innovative, screen-based simulation system in an interactive, realistic manner.

Expiration Date: 07/11/2021

Anesthesia SimSTAT - Trauma, Appendectomy, and Robotic Surgery

For the first time, practicing physicians can participate in high-fidelity simulation scenarios within a realistic, interactive gaming environment. This training helps improve performance in the management of anesthesia emergencies and fulfills continuing medical education and MOCA 2.0® Part 4 requirements. This package includes the first three courses in the Anesthesia SimSTAT series – Trauma, Appendectomy, and Robotic Surgery.

Expiration Date: 07/11/2021

Patient Safety Highlights 2017 - Decreasing Disruptive Behavior for Better Patient Outcomes

Three cases involving alleged disruptive and inappropriate behavior will be discussed. The first case involves an assertive female anesthesiologist who is reported for disruptive behavior towards surgeons and nursing staff. The second case involves violent and disruptive behavior by a surgeon that affects patient care. The third case involves misinterpretation of standard preoperative questions and procedures by a patient's companion that results in a formal complaint against an anesthesiologist for disrespect and inappropriate conduct. Early identification of disruptive behaviors, the harm they cause, how this affects patient outcomes, methods of rectifying these behaviors, and the legal implications of these actions will be discussed in an open case forum.

Expiration Date: 01/11/2021

Anesthesia SimSTAT – Appendectomy

Test how well you manage a patient presenting for acute appendicitis undergoing a laparoscopic appendectomy through ASA and CAE Healthcare’s virtual O.R. and receive instant performance feedback and scoring. This course is designed to improve the knowledge and performance of the practicing anesthesiologist who may provide intraoperative care for patients with an acute abdominal process undergoing laparoscopic surgery through an innovative, screen-based simulation modality. This course will provide the opportunity for learners to practice the management of a patient with an acute abdominal process requiring resuscitation, frequent reassessment, and other emergent interventions in an interactive, realistic manner.

Expiration Date: 04/19/2021

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: 09/24/2021

Emergency manuals are context-relevant sets of cognitive aids, such as crisis checklists, in this case for perioperative or procedural contexts. The framework for this RC is Why, When, and How emergency manuals can help clinical teams to deliver best practices to patients during critical events. Rationale for why to implement and use emergency manuals will be presented, drawing from high stakes industries and human factors, as well as simulation-based healthcare studies. Vital elements for effective implementation and use will be presented. Potential challenges and pitfalls will be explored, and facilitators of successful implementation and use will be described.

Expiration Date: 07/16/2021