Accreditation

1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.

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 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(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This activity may be submitted for American Osteopathic Association Continuing Medical Education credit in Category 2.

Target Audience

This activity is intended for anesthesia providers.

Activity Design

The Traditional and Emerging Approaches to Challenging Cases in Anesthesiology Series includes cases, corresponding to articles from Anesthesiology News.

Objectives

At the conclusion of this activity, the participant will be able to:

1. Apply appropriate techniques for management of increased intracranial pressure.
2. Discuss glucose management in the diabetic patient.
3. Discuss the risk factors for injury and preventive management in the morbidly obese.
4. Describe the indications and complications of osmotic diuretic use during craniotomy.
5. Explain the methods used to predict difficult airway management in the morbidly obese patient.
6. Manage safe sedation during awake fiber-optic intubation in morbidly obese patients with a history of sleep apnea.
7. Evaluate the use of transesophageal echocardiography during cranial surgery.
8. Describe the management of venous air embolism during neurosurgery.
9. Discuss problems associated with the sitting position.

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
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Authors

Ehab Farag, MD, FRCA; Armin Schubert, MD, MBA

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 has indicated that he may have a relationship, which in the context of his presentation(s), could be perceived as a potential conflict of interest:

Armin Schubert, MD, MBA — Grant/Research Support: Gaymar.

The following faculty has indicated he has no relationship which, in the context of his presentation(s), could be perceived as a potential conflict of interest:

Ehab Farag, MD, FRCA