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The Harvard Medical School is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. 

The Harvard Medical School designates this live activity for a maximum of 54.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

Course only, no Lunch-and-Learn Roundtable Discussions = 37.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™

Course, including optional Lunch-and-Learn Roundtable Discussions (5.00) = 42.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™

Course (37.75) with Tues. Regional Workshop (3.75), Weds. Airway Workshop (3.75), and Thurs. ACLS Workshop (3.75)  = a maximum of 49.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™

Course (37.75) with Tues. Ether Dome Tour (2.25) = 40.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™

NURSE ANESTHETISTS

This program has been prior approved by the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists for 50.75 Class A CE credits; Code Number 1036969; Expiration Date 5/17/2019.

RISK MANAGEMENT

This activity meets the criteria of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine for 17.50 credits of Risk Management Study. This includes 7.00 credits in Opioid Education and Pain Management Training and 1.75 credits of End-of-Life Care Studies. Please check your individual state licensing board requirements before claiming these credits.

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Updates, Best Practices, and New Guidelines for Clinical Anesthesiology

Ambulatory, Cardiac, Critical Care, Obstetric, Pain Management, Pediatric, Regional, Thoracic

In the past year, there have been a number of very significant clinical changes that affect the practice of anesthesiology. This comprehensive CME program provides a special and timely opportunity for anesthesiologists, nurse anesthetists and others with interest in the field to hear directly from world-renowned specialists and master clinicians about these changes.

The curriculum at Anesthesiology Update 2019 ensures not only that attendees leave with a comprehensive understanding of the latest advances, risk mitigation strategies and anesthesiology guidelines, but also with specific recommendations to incorporate these updates into practice.

The format is engaging and attendees are encouraged to pose questions in sessions as well as one-on-one with the national and international experts who will be delivering the updates and education at this event. This program also features a variety of hands-on, skills advancement workshops.

Updates, best practices and new guidelines cover:

Perioperative myocardial protection

Evidence-based neuroprotection strategies

Trauma and blood management

Difficult airway

Advances in regional anesthesia

Care of the parturient

Apology and disclosure

Opioid crisis

New drugs in the anesthesia pipeline

Multimodal general anesthesia

Enhanced Recovery After Surgery

End-of-life care

Preventing burnout

Participants will take away important guidelines and checklists that they can put to immediate use in their anesthesia practice.

Program Highlights 

2019 Guidelines, New Innovations, Challenging Cases, and State-of-the-Art Clinical and Patient Safety Updates in the areas of:

Regional anesthesia

Cardiac anesthesia

Critical care medicine

Ambulatory anesthesia, office-based anesthesia

Pediatric anesthesia

Obstetric anesthesia

Thoracic anesthesia

Preoperative assessment

Perioperative transfusion medicine

Neuroanesthesia, neurotoxicity, traumatic brain injury

Clinician wellness

Pain management

Patient safety and risk reduction 

Enhanced recovery after surgery

IMPORTANT DRUG UPDATES 

Anesthetic drugs in the development pipeline 

Anesthetic neurotoxicity

Total intravenous anesthesia

Inhalational anesthetics

Use of nitrous oxide in clinical practice

Tranexamic acid

Liposomal bupivacaine

Beta blockers

Gabapentinoids

Current uses of ketamine

Street drugs in 2019

Stefan De Hert, MD, PhD

President, European Society of Anaesthesiology

Professor of Anesthesiology

Director of Research

Department of Anesthesiology

Ghent University Hospital

Ghent University

Belgium

Talmage D. Egan, MD

Professor and Chair

Department of Anesthesiology

University of Utah

Naveen Eipe, MD

Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa

Clinical Lead, Bariatric Anesthesia Program, The Ottawa Hospital

VP (Education), International Society for the Perioperative Care of the Obese Patient (ISPCOP)

Lee A. Fleisher, MD

Robert D. Dripps Professor and Chair

Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care

Professor of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine

Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Healthcare Economics

University of Pennsylvania

Walid Habre, MD, PhD

Ordinary Professor of Anaesthesiology

Faculty of Medicine, Geneva University

Senior Consultant in Paediatric Anaesthesia

Head of the Unit of Anaesthesiological Investigations

Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland

Gregory Hammer, MD

Professor of Pediatrics (Intensive Care) and Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine

Stanford University School of Medicine

Director of Research, Pediatric Anesthesiology

Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford

Brian E. McGeeney, MD, MPH, MBA

Assistant Professor of Neurology

Boston University School of Medicine

Michael (Monty) G. Mythen, MBBS, MD, FRCA, FFICM, FCAI (Hon)

Smiths Medical Professor of Anaesthesia and Critical CareUniversity College London

Director, UCL Discovery Lab at the Institute of Sport Exercise and Health

Ellen O'Sullivan, FRCA, FCAI, FCPSP

Consultant, Anaesthesia & Intensive Care, St. James Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Council Member, Royal College of Anaesthetists, UK

Chair, Global Partnerships Committee

Past President, College of Anaesthetists of Ireland

Past President, Difficult Airway Society

Executive Director, World Airway Management Meeting--WAMM2019

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Group registrations not allowed

Accompanying persons not allowed

We don’t accept Online Abstracts

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Call 617-384-8600

Monday-Friday

9:00am to 5:00pm (ET)

Send email to CEPrograms@hms.harvard.edu