What Role Will You Play in the Perioperative Surgical Home?

Clinical Update:
What Role Will You Play in the
Perioperative Surgical Home?
May 9, 2015 at The Hotel Roanoke & Conference Center
Speaker:
BobbieJean Sweitzer, MD
Professor of Anesthesia and Critical Care
Professor of Medicine
Director, Anesthesia Perioperative Medicine Clinic
University of Chicago
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Clinical Update:
What Role Will You Play in the
Perioperative Surgical Home?
May 9, 2015 at The Hotel Roanoke & Conference Center
Speaker: BobbieJean Sweitzer, MD
PROGRAM
7:45 - 8:15 am
Registration and Breakfast with Exhibitors
8:15 - 8:30 am
Welcoming Remarks
VSA President Maxine Lee, MD, MBA
8:30 - 9:30 am Moving Away from Preoperative Testing to the Practice of Perioperative Medicine
9:30 - 10:30 am Perioperative Assessment and Management of the Highest Risk Patients
10:30 - 11:00 am
Break with Exhibitors
11:00 am - 12:00 noon Preoperative Cardiac Evaluation for Non-Cardiac Surgery
Adjourn
12 noon
Dr. BobbieJean Sweitzer graduated from the Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine and
completed a residency in internal medicine. After practicing internal medicine for several years, she
decided to train in anesthesiology at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Sweitzer remained on the
faculty at Harvard Medical School for several years before returning to Chicago and currently works
at the University of Chicago.
She is an author and editor of the Handbook of Preoperative Assessment and Management (1st and
2nd editions) and has written numerous publications on perioperative medicine, including chapters
in Miller’s Anesthesia, 7th and 8th editions; Anesthesiology by Longnecker, et al, 1st and 2nd
editions; and Basics of Anesthesia, Stoelting and Miller, 6th edition.
Recent journal articles by Dr. Sweitzer include: Preanesthesia evaluation for ambulatory surgery: do we make a difference? Curr
Opin Anesthesiol 26:669-676, 2013; CPAP adherence in patients with newly diagnosed obstructive sleep apnea prior to elective
surgery. J Clin Sleep Med 8:501-506, 2012; 2007 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA)
Guidelines on Perioperative Cardiac Evaluation are usually incorrectly applied by anesthesiology residents evaluating simulated
patients. Anesth Analg 112:940-949, 2011; The relationship between glycosylated hemoglobin and perioperative glucose control
in patients with diabetes Can J Anaesth 57:322-9, 2010; and Identification and evaluation of the patient with lung disease. Med
Clin N Am 93:1017, 2009.
She lectures extensively on preoperative evaluation and preparation of patients having anesthesia. Her research interests include
perioperative diabetes management and the effects of preoperative assessment on perioperative outcomes. Dr. Sweitzer is a
founding member of the Governing Board, and immediate past President of the Society of Perioperative Assessment and Quality
Improvement.
What Role Will You Play in the
Perioperative Surgical Home?
May 9, 2015 at The Hotel Roanoke & Conference Center
110 Shenandoah Avenue • Roanoke, VA • Monroe and Wilson Rooms
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What Role Will You Play in the Perioperative Surgical Home?
TARGET AUDIENCE:
Anesthesiologists. Nurse anesthetists, surgeons,
internists and perioperative nurses will benefit from
this educational offering.
FACULTY:
BobbieJean Sweitzer, MD
Professor of Anesthesia and Critical Care
Professor of Medicine
Director, Anesthesia Perioperative
Medicine Clinic
University of Chicago
(reported no relationships or affiliations with
commercial interest)
OBJECTIVES:
Moving Away From Preoperative Testing to the
Practice of Perioperative Medicine
After this lecture attendees will:
• Discuss the advantages of assessment of patients
over the “testing” of patients
• Define the role of a preoperative physician
• Identify management strategies to improve perioperative outcomes
Preoperative Assessment and Management of
the Highest Risk Patients
After this lecture attendees will:
• Review medical conditions that predict patients at
risk of poor outcomes
• Discuss how to identify and manage patients at risk
of having significant but often unidentified medical
conditions
• Describe key preoperative practices to improve
outcomes in ASA-PS 3 & 4 patients
Preoperative Cardiac Evaluation For NonCardiac Surgery
Upon completion of this learning activity, participants
should be able to:
• Discuss success and complications of preoperative
cardiac evaluation and risk management
• Discuss why revascularization rarely lowers and
often raises perioperative risk
• Recommend three management strategies to reduce
perioperative cardiac risk
DATE/TIME:
May 9, 2015, 8:15 am – 12:00 pm
LOCATION:
The Hotel Roanoke and Conference Center
110 Shenandoah Avenue, Roanoke, VA 24016
540-985-5900
CONTACT PERSON:
Loretta Hall, Human Resources Consultant
and Conference Coordinator
540-983-4045, lfhall@carilionclinic.org
Andrew Mann, VSA Association Manager
804-565-6325, andrew@societyhq.com
CREDIT:
This activity has been planned and implemented in
accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies
of the Medical Society of Virginia through the joint
providership of Carilion Clinic’s CME Program
Carilion Clinic Department of Anesthesiology and
Virginia Society of Anesthesiologists. Carilion Clinic’s
CME Program is accredited by The Medical Society of
Virginia to provide continuing medical education for
physicians.
Carilion Clinic’s CME Program designates this live
activity for a maximum of 3 AMA PRA Category 1
Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit
commensurate with the extent of their participation in
the activity.
PLANNING COMMITTEE:
Dr. Maxine Lee, Lorretta Hall and Andrew Mann
reported no relationships or affiliations with
commercial interests.