Traditional & Emerging Approaches
to Challenging Cases
in Anesthesiology
Anesthetic Management for Morbid
Obesity During Craniotomy
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Release Date: October 1, 2005
Renewal Date: May 26, 2009
Expiration Date: May 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
At the conclusion of this activity, the participant will be able to:
- Apply appropriate techniques for management of increased intracranial pressure.
- Discuss glucose management in the diabetic patient.
- Discuss the risk factors for injury and preventive management in the morbidly obese.
- Describe the indications and complications of osmotic diuretic use during craniotomy.
- Explain the methods used to predict difficult airway management in the morbidly obese patient.
- Manage safe sedation during awake fiber-optic intubation in morbidly obese patients with a history of sleep apnea.
- Evaluate the use of transesophageal echocardiography during cranial surgery.
- Describe the management of venous air embolism during neurosurgery.
- Discuss problems associated with the sitting position.
Target Audience
This activity is intended for anesthesia providers.
Accreditation
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education 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.
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, OH
Author / Faculty
| Ehab Farag, MD, FRCA Staff, Division of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Cleveland Clinic Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio |
Armin Schubert, MD, MBA Chairman, Department of General Anesthesiology Cleveland Clinic 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 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 | ||
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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
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 and UNITECH Communications®.
