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 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

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

Patient Safety Highlights 2018 - Personalizing Culture of Safety-What Does It Mean for Each of Us?

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

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

Cases from the Perioperative Surgical Home: A Journey to Improve Quality and Patient Safety

This is the first of a 6-Part Series showcasing PSH case studies representing a variety of different size and types of institutions and perspectives. These cases will focus on the institutions’ journey and improvement on patient care and outcomes. Institution representatives discuss the barriers and challenges faced and solutions for overcoming those challenges along the journey. A how-to journey with real institutions will help participants reflect on how to approach their own PSH journey.

Expiration Date: 12/3/2020

Anesthesia SimSTAT - Robotic Surgery

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

2017 Refresher Courses in Anesthesiology - December - Safety Updates from the Anesthesia Closed Claims Project

This refresher course reports current findings from the Anesthesia Closed Claims Project and reviews recent papers including difficult intubation, respiratory depression associated with acute pain management, management of unexpected hemorrhage, and safety concerns in non-operating room anesthesia. Current practice guidelines and communication and systems changes to improve perioperative patient safety will also be discussed.

Expiration Date: 12/18/2020

2016 Refresher Courses in Anesthesiology - Full Subscription (RCA) - The latest research and educational findings

This newly designed online program includes 17 edited and peer-reviewed lectures selected from the ASA Refresher Courses presented at ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2015. 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: 07/24/2020

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

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

Anesthesia SimSTAT – Trauma

For the first time, practicing physicians can participate in high-fidelity simulation scenarios within a 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.

Expiration Date: 07/17/2020

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

2016 Refresher Courses in Anesthesiology - Full Subscription

This online program includes 17 edited and peer-reviewed lectures selected from the ASA Refresher Courses presented at ANESTHESIOLOGY^® 2015. 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: 07/24/2020

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

Patient Safety Highlights 2016 - Full Subscription

13 patient safety sessions recorded at ANESTHESIOLOGY^® 2016

Expiration Date: 01/11/2021

2017 RCA - July 2018 - Using Emergency Manuals in the OR: What is the Evidence and How to Be Most Effective

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