Event Overview

Dr. Amir Jaffer and Dr. Franklin A. Michota, Jr., the founding Summit directors, in collaboration with Dr. David Hepner, will direct the upcoming 4th Perioperative Medicine Summit in its new home in Miami, Florida. The Cleveland Clinic, the Summit’s originator in 2006, is co-sponsoring the event this year with its new parent, the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and the University of Miami Health System, UHealth, in collaboration with the Society for Perioperative Assessment and Quality Improvement (SPAQI).

Our goal is to enable clinicians who are actively engaged in perioperative medical care to incorporate the latest findings from clinical research into their practices so that they can improve the quality and safety of their medical care.

We will use evidence-based lectures supplemented by clinical cases and combine them with an Audience Response System for a detailed exchange of information among faculty and attendees. In addition, clinical and lab research, innovations, and clinical vignettes related to perioperative medicine will be selected for presentation. 

Target Audience

Internists, hospitalists, family practitioners, anesthesiologists, physician assistants, certified nurse anesthetists, nurse practioners and allied health professionals engaged in management of the perioperative patient.

Objectives

At the completion of this summit, the attendee will be able to:

• Outline the different elements of the preoperative evaluation and the communication techniques for the medical consultant.
• Assess perioperative risk by applying the patient’s history, physical exam, and laboratory tests to evidence-based clinical predication rules and guidelines for cardiovascular disease, pulmonary disease, thromboembolism, and delirium.
• Define disease processes relevant to perioperative care.
• Implement evidence-based therapies for perioperative care.
• Integrate cost-effective perioperative testing in ambulatory and hospitalized patients.
• Manage common postoperative medical complications.
• Incorporate the latest findings from perioperative clinical research into his or her office and/or hospital practice.