Quality Update Newsletter: Issue No. 2

Quality Newsletter- Issue No 2

Welcome! This Newsletter is chronicling the wonderful efforts done by the divisions in the Department of Anesthesiology as well as the CA2 residents and their faculty mentors in the past academic year.

Reading through the newsletters, references, and completion of the questions with > 70% correct responses will allow you to claim up to 1 hour of CME time, which will also count towards ABA MOCA Part IV requirements. If you are interested in contributing an article (which can also count towards MOCA Part IV credit) please contact Sheila Blogg at sblogg@mcw.edu

Keywords:  Standard of Care, Clinical Competence, Total Quality Management, Quality Assurance, Health Care, Practice Guidelines as Topic  

This module will take up to 60 minutes to complete and contains 3 required elements:

  • Read the online newsletter and associated references 
  • Quality Update Quiz (with a 70% passing grade)
  • Complete Evaluation Form

Target Audience

  • Physicians
  • Nurses
  • Physician Assistants
  • Nurse Practitioners
  • Pharmacists
  • Psychologists

Learning Objectives

Participants who engage in this educational intervention will be able to:
  • Identify individual departmental patient QI goals, with specific interventions and patient-oriented goals as metrics of success
  • Change from generalized practice to the recommended standardized quality and value-based practices as highlighted in the educational content, including supplied specific literature
  • Connect intraoperative interventions to post-operative patient safety outcomes
Additional information

Contact

Name: 
Sarah Beyler
Phone Number: 
+1 (414) 805-6106
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
    AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
  • 1.00 Hours of Participation
    Hours of Participation credit.
Course opens: 
10/12/2021
Course expires: 
10/12/2023
Cost:
$0.00

Inside This Issue:

  1. Effect of Spaced Learning on Acquisition of Factual Knowledge of Monitoring and Dosing of NMB and Reversal Agents and its Impact on Clinical Practice
  2. Collaborative Effort to Decrease Cardiac Surgery Blood Utilization
  3. The use of autologous normovolemic hemodilution followed the current guidelines set forth by the Society of Advancement of Blood Management (SABM). SABM guidelines contradict the use of ANH in patients with arrhythmias and active infection. 
  4. DASI as a predictor of Postop Adverse events
  5. “LAST” CA2 Presentation
  6. SOS PROGRAM- growing the Second Victim Management
  7. CIED “Cardiac implantable electrical devices”
  8. Intraoperative Handoffs

 

 

In accordance with the ACCME® Standards for Commercial Support Six, all in control of content must disclose any relevant financial relationships. The following in control of content had no relevant financial relationships to disclose.
 
Activity Director & Contributors:
Michael A. Fierro, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesiology 
Medical College of Wisconsin
 
Sheila C. Blogg
Enterprise Director of Quality 
Department of Anesthesiology 
Medical College of Wisconsin
 
Robert J Gregory, MD
 
David Eberle, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacist 
Froedtert Hospital 
 
Katie Harris, BS
 
Jennifer Farrell, MHA, BSN, RN  
Clinical Program Manager, Heart & Vascular Services 
Froedtert Hospital 
 
Harvey Woehlck, MD
Professor
Department of Anesthesiology 
Medical College of Wisconsin
 
Cynthia Lien, MD
Chair, Professor
Department of Anesthesiology 
Medical College of Wisconsin
 

Zubin Patel, MD, PhD
Resident, CA-2
Department of Anesthesiology 
Medical College of Wisconsin
 

Austin Ko, DO 
Resident, CA-3
Department of Anesthesiology 
Medical College of Wisconsin
 
Christopher Plambeck, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesiology 
Medical College of Wisconsin 
 
Daniel Brunner, MD 
Resident, CA-3
Department of Anesthesiology 
Medical College of Wisconsin
 
Mark Wandzel, DO 
Resident, CA-3
Department of Anesthesiology 
Medical College of Wisconsin
 
William Rittmeyer, DO
Resident, CA-3
Department of Anesthesiology 
Medical College of Wisconsin
 
Chris J. Roberts, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesiology 
Medical College of Wisconsin
 
Randall Yale, MD
Resident, CA-3
Department of Anesthesiology 
Medical College of Wisconsin
 
Karin Madsen Drescher, MD 
Associate Professor 
Department of Anesthesiology 
Medical College of Wisconsin
 
Heather Wichman, MD
Resident, CA-3
Department of Anesthesiology 
Medical College of Wisconsin
 
Chelsea Willie, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesiology 
Medical College of Wisconsin
 
Ashley Lewis, MD
Resident, CA-3
Department of Anesthesiology 
Medical College of Wisconsin
 
Allison Taylor, MD
Resident, CA-3
Department of Anesthesiology 
Medical College of Wisconsin
 
Fan Yang, MD
Resident, CA-3
Department of Anesthesiology 
Medical College of Wisconsin
 
David Izquierdo, MD
 
Annie Lincoln, MD
Fellow, Pediatric Anesthesiology 
Department of Anesthesiology 
Medical College of Wisconsin

Zachary Smith, MD
Resident, CA-3
Department of Anesthesiology 
Medical College of Wisconsin 
 
Omar Dyara, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesiology 
Medical College of Wisconsin

 

ACCME Accreditation Statement:
The Medical College of Wisconsin is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
 
AMA Credit Designation Statement:
The Medical College of Wisconsin designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
 
Hours of Participation for Allied Health Care Professionals
The Medical College of Wisconsin designates this activity for up to 1.0 hours of participation for continuing education for allied health professionals. 

Available Credit

  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
    AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
  • 1.00 Hours of Participation
    Hours of Participation credit.

Price

Cost:
$0.00
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