Findings from the Department
of Outcomes Research and
Outcomes Research Consortium

The Department of Outcomes Research is the administrative center for the international Outcomes Research Consortium, a group of more than 100 clinical investigators. In general outcomes research seeks to link the care people get to the outcomes they experience. Our specific interest is to evaluate inexpensive, low-risk interventions that are easy to implement yet likely to markedly improve outcome. These reviews summarize treatments we’ve developed and how they fit into existing knowledge.

	Defeating Normal Thermoregulatory Defenses: Induction of Therapeutic Hypothermia
	Estimated Time: 30 minutes Release Date: June 5, 2009 Type: Case-Based Lesson	Technical Requirements: None Expiration Date: June 5, 2010 Specialties: Anesthesiology, Critical-care
	Non-Pharmacologic Prevention of Surgical Wound Infection
	Estimated Time: 30 minutes Release Date: April 2, 2008 Type: Case-Based Lesson	Technical Requirements: Expiration Date: May 20, 2010 Specialties: Anesthesiology/Pain Management, Critical-care
	The Perioperative Heat Balance
	Estimated Time: 90 minutes Release Date: June 9, 2009 Type: Case-Based Lesson	Technical Requirements: None Expiration Date: June 9, 2010 Specialties: AnesthesiologyPain Management, Critical-care
	Temperature Monitoring and Perioperative Thermoregulation
	Estimated Time: 2 hours Release Date: August 22, 2008 Type: Case-Based Lesson	Technical Requirements: None Expiration Date: August 27, 2010 Specialties: Anesthesiology/Pain Management, Critical-care
	Prevention and Treatment of Perioperative Hypothermia
	Estimated Time: 30 minutes Release Date: May 30, 2008 Type: Case-Based Lesson	Technical Requirements: None Expiration Date: July 15, 2010 Specialties: Anesthesiology/Pain Management, Critical-care
	Perioperative Shivering: Physiology and Pharmacology
	Estimated Time: 2 hours Release Date: May 20, 2008 Type: Case-Based Lesson	Technical Requirements: None Expiration Date: July 15, 2010 Specialties: Anesthesiology/Pain Management, Critical-care

Series Objectives

1. Review the effects of regional and general anesthesia on thermoregulatory control.
2. Discuss heat balance and how surgical patients become hypothermic.
3. Review the consequences of hypothermia and how to maintain normothermia
4. Identify methods of reducing the risk of surgical infection.

Activity Director

Daniel I. Sessler, MD
Professor and Chair
Department of Outcomes Research
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio

This CME activity was produced by The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Center for Continuing Education and the Outcomes Research Consortium.