Make your transition into practice easier with these hand-selected, complimentary courses available to all ASA resident and student members.

These courses offer you up-to-date information and many of these topics may appear on future exams. The content is aligned to ACGME and other training program requirements. Importantly, this patient safety information will put you ahead of the game when you graduate and enter practice. Jane Easdown MDCM, MHPE, Program Director for Neuroanesthesia Fellowship, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

• Anesthetic Management During MRI and CT Imaging Procedures 2024
  
• Estimated time to complete: 1.5 hrs; 14 days minimum for Quality Improvement portion
• IV Infiltration and Extravasation 2023
• Estimated time to complete: 1 hr; 14 days minimum for Quality Improvement portion
• Medication Safety in Pediatric Anesthesia 2023
• Estimated time to complete: 1 hr; 14 days minimum for Quality Improvement portion
• Preventing Errors Associated with Perioperative Insulin Administration in Pediatric Patients 2023
• Estimated time to complete: 1 hr; 14 days minimum for Quality Improvement portion
• Infection Control and Prevention      
• Estimated time to complete: 2 hrs
• Drug Errors in Anesthesia
• Estimated time to complete: 45 min
• Difficult Airway Algorithm 2023
• Estimated time to complete: 1 hr
• Emergency Checklists in Anesthesia Practice
  • Estimated time to complete: 3 hrs

Patient Safety Highlights 2024 Package
Estimated time to complete: 11.75 hrs

• What's new in Quality Improvement and Practice Management in ASC?
  
• Cautionary Tales: Perioperative Disasters and Lessons Learned from the AIRS Registry
• Perioperative Remote Monitoring; Improving Outcomes for the Surgical Patient
• Is it Me or are my Monitors Lying to Me? Reliability Issues with Pulse Oximetry, Arterial Line, and Processed EEG
• Reevaluating the Role of Opioids for Anesthesia and Analgesia: Have we gone too far or not far enough?
• Emerging Medical Technologies - A Patient Safety Perspective on Wearables, Big Data and Remote Care
• Safety and Complications in Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Management
  
• When Disaster Strikes: Emergency Preparedness in the Ambulatory Surgery Center
• Advanced Airway Management in the NORA Environment
• Anesthesiology to the Rescue: Managing the Unstable Patient in the OR, PACU, ICU and Beyond
• Preparing for and Managing Medical Emergencies in the Ambulatory Surgical Center
• Ophthalmologic Surgery: New Information on very Common Ambulatory Procedures
• How to Safely Manage Atypical Clinical Situations: Tips from the Anesthesia Patient Safety Editorial Board

Patient Safety Highlights 2022 Package
Estimated time to complete: 12.5 hrs

• Understanding Medical Accidents
• Burnout in Anesthesiology: Where are We and What are We Doing About It?
• Improving Perioperative Opioid Safety and Efficacy in Children: Opioid Pharmacogenetics and Personalized ERAS
• Healthcare Death by Suicide: Preventing a Tragic End
• Pediatric Sedation: Methods to Enhance Safety
• Maternal Morbidity and Mortality – An Anesthesiologist’s Role and Perspective
• Emergency Manuals in Clinical Uses: Impacts, Adoption, and Tip
• Aerosols, Smoke Plumes, and X-rays: Occupational Safety for the Anesthesiologist
• Patient Safety Highlights 2022 - Thinking Fast, Thinking Slow: How Clinicians Think to Make Decisions
• Workplace Safety for Anesthesiologists
• Measuring Quality: A Subspecialty Perspective from Cardiac, Pediatric, and Neuroanesthesia
• International Forum on Perioperative Safety & Quality (ISQ) - Ensuring Continuity of Care to Promote Patient Safety
• Harms of Promoting Zero Harm: Reusables are Safe and Protect Planetary Health

Patient Safety Highlights 2021 Package
Estimated time to complete: 28 hrs

• Adapting ACLS to the Perioperative Setting
• AIRS Safety Tables
• APSF Panel: Clinician Safety: To Care is Human
• ASRA Practice Advisories: Review and Update
• Best Practices in Regional Anesthesia and Interventional Pain Medicin
• Adapting ACLS to the Perioperative Setting
• AIRS Safety Tables
• APSF Panel: Clinician Safety: To Care is Human
• ASRA Practice Advisories: Review and Update
• Best Practices in Regional Anesthesia and Interventional Pain Medicine: The Benefit of Closed Claims Analysis
• Cannabinoids in Acute and Chronic Pain: Utility, Legality, Safety and Efficacy
• Current Controversies in Airway Management
• Documentation for Regional Anesthesia: Why Do You Write All of that Stuff in Your Procedure Note?
• Do Perioperative Handoffs Really Cause Harm? If So, What Can We Do about It?
• Ellison Pierce Lecture: Anesthesia Safety in an Asymmetrical World
• Emergency Manuals in Clinical Uses: Impacts, Uptake, and Tips
• Enhancing Patient Safety During Peri-procedural Neurologic Emergencies
• FAER Helrich Lecture: Crisis and Opportunity in Clinical Trials
• Interventional Neuroradiology: Anesthetic Considerations and Crisis Management
• Is this Malignant Hyperthermia?
• Lessons Learned from the National Incident Reporting System, AIRS and the Australian/New Zealand Incident Reporting System
• Medication Errors and Medication Safety: Preventing Errors in the Operating Room
• My Patient is Too Sick for Surgery, but not for NORA? Confronting Challenges to Patient Safety Outside of the OR
• Occupational Hazards for Anesthesiologists
• Office-Based Anesthesia 2020: Safety, Snippets and Snaps
• Physician Burnout: Is Resilience the Only Answer? Identifying and Addressing Stressors, Mistreatment, and Harassment
• Postoperative Respiratory Events: Identification, Management and Post PACU Destination; Can Artificial Intelligence Help?
• Preventing and Managing Complications on L&D: How to Move From Being Just REactive to PROactive
• Risk Reduction in Pediatric Anesthesia
• SOAP/Gertie Marx Plenary Lecture: One-third of a Century of Learning: The Contributions of Anesthesiologists to Obstetric Care
• Tackling the Top Patient Safety Problems in Your Practice: Recommendations from the ASA Patient Safety Editorial Board
• The Difficult Pediatric Airway
• Understanding Medical Accidents