Traditional & Emerging Approaches to
Challenging Cases
in Anesthesiology
Airway Challenges in the PACU/ICU
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Release Date: December 1, 2005
Renewal Date: December 26, 2009
Expiration Date: December 26, 2010
Estimated Time of Completion: 1 hour
Description
The Traditional and Emerging Approaches to Challenging Cases in Anesthesiology Series includes cases, corresponding to articles from Anesthesiology News.
Objectives
- Identify obstructive sleep apnea and the tests required to diagnose and classify its severity.
- Describe the advantages, limitations, and guidelines for the safe use of airway exchange catheters.
- List the steps and airway equipment used to manage the difficult airway in uncommon situations.
- Explain the postoperative complications of maxillomandibular advancement surgery for obstructive sleep apnea and the etiology, pathophysiology, and treatment of hypoxemia, hypoventilation, and negative-pressure pulmonary edema.
- Discuss the pharmacology of remifentanil, its side effects, and the precautions that must be taken to avoid postoperative airway complications secondary to its use.
- Identify the indications and limitations of opioid reversal with the antagonist naloxone.
Target Audience
This activity is intended for anesthesia providers.
Accreditation
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education and The McMahon Publishing Group. The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Participants claiming CME credit from this activity may submit the credit hours to the American Osteopathic Association Council on Continuing Medical Education for Category 2 credit.
Activity Director
John E. Tetzlaff, MD
Professor of Anesthesiology
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
of Case Western Reserve University
Director, Center for Anesthesiology Education
Division of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio
Author / Faculty
Maged Argalious, MD
Staff, Division of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio
Faculty Disclosure
In accordance with the Standards for Commercial Support issued by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education requires resolution of all faculty conflicts of interest to ensure CME activities are free of commercial bias.
The following faculty have indicated they have no relationship which, in the context of their presentation, could be perceived as a potential conflict of interest:
Maged Argalious, MD
John E. Tetzlaff, MD
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education acknowledges an educational
grant for support of this activity from:
Baxter Pharmaceutical Products, Inc.
This CME activity was produced by The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Center for Continuing Education.
