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ForwardMedicine, and the specific field of anesthesiology, are changing rapidly. The number of journals describing these changes and the articles describing the investigative work being done has just exploded and, unless following the information in one of our many subspecialties, it would be impossible to remain current with evolving information. This series was designed to provide current information to our faculty, students and staff to allow their care of patients to reflect best practices and to encourage each of them to make a regular practice of seeking new and accurate information so that they can remain current in their practices. The visiting professor series is designed to offer timely, current and critical education to all types of Anesthesia practitioners (faculty, ancillary staff, and residents). The visiting professor series will focus on the integration of new research/literature/techniques into the current knowledge base of the faculty and residents. Much emphasis will be given on how to integrate the information into clinical practices. Speakers are carefully selected based on the quality of the education they will provide the audience (new information/skills/techniques) and the relevance and timeliness to the field of Anesthesiology.
Key Words: Value-based Care, Benchmarks for Clinical Care, Prehabilitation and Outcome, Extra-corporeal Membrane Oxygenation
- Physicians
- Nurse Practitioners
- Physician Assistants
- Medical Students, CRNA's
Participants who engage in this educational intervention will be able to:
- Outline the anesthetic challenges associated with ankylosing spondylitis in the parturient, including implications for airway management and neuraxial anesthesia placement.
- Discuss strategies to manage difficult airway and difficult neuraxial access in obstetric patients with advanced spinal disease.
- Assess the use of an intrathecal catheter as a reliable option for labor analgesia and surgical anesthesia when conventional neuraxial techniques are challenging or contraindicated.
- Integrate patient‑specific anesthetic planning principles to optimize safety and outcomes in high‑risk obstetric patients with complex spinal pathology.
- Summarize key perioperative anesthetic considerations and management strategies for patients with warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia.
- Recognize transfusion‑related challenges associated with warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia, including cross‑matching difficulties and hemolysis risk.
- Demonstrate the importance of early and ongoing communication with the blood bank to ensure timely availability of appropriate blood products.
- Incorporate coordinated perioperative planning strategies to enhance patient safety and optimize outcomes in cases requiring complex transfusion support.
- Elucidate the mechanism of action of botulinum toxin and its effects on neuromuscular transmission.
- Characterize the clinical course of botulism toxicity, including expected recovery patterns and treatment strategies.
- Examine how underlying cerebral palsy may alter physiologic recovery and complicate the management of botulism toxicity sequelae.
- Compare alternative pharmacologic and non‑pharmacologic approaches for managing postoperative agitation in the pediatric population.
- Interrogate the physiologic mechanisms that make general and neuraxial anesthesia unacceptably high‑risk in patients with severe aortic stenosis, pulmonary hypertension, and right ventricular dysfunction.
- Distinguish informed consent as patient authorization from informed refusal as a professionally and ethically grounded obligation when proposed surgery is non‑beneficial.
- Defend the anesthesiologist’s decision to decline participation in non‑beneficial surgery as a proactive form of perioperative care, rooted in physiologic limitations, patient safety, and shared decision‑making principles.
- Benjamin Hicks, DO - CA-1, Department of Anesthesiology
- Joshua Loughran, MD - CA-1, Department of Anesthesiology
- Steven Malouff, MD - CA-3, Department of Anesthesiology
- Jacob Qurashi, MD, MPH - PGY-1, Department of Anesthesiology
- Meaghan Reaney, DO - CA-2, Department of Anesthesiology
- Andres Daryanani, MD - PGY-1, Department of Anesthesiology
- Cynthia A. Lien, MD
- Tracy Zundel, MD
- Benjamin Hicks, DO
- Joshua Loughran, MD
- Steven Malouff, MD
- Jacob Qurashi, MD, MPH
- Meaghan Reaney, DO
- Andres Daryanani, MD
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ACCME Accreditation Statement:
The Medical College of Wisconsin is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA Credit Designation Statement:
The Medical College of Wisconsin designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.00 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 1.00 hours of participation for continuing education for allied health professionals.
- 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
- 1.00 Hours of ParticipationHours of Participation credit.