The Eden Roc Hotel
Miami Beach, Florida
The goal of this 3-day summit is to enable clinicians who are actively engaged in perioperative medical care to incorporate the latest findings from clinical research and recommendations from evidence-based guidelines into their practices so that they can improve the quality and safety of their medical care.
2013 Summit attendees can download the PDF handouts from the sessions here:
March 7, 2013 - Perioperative Summit Handouts
March 8, 2013 - Perioperative Summit Handouts
March 9, 2013 - Perioperative Summit Handouts
Click here for the PDF brochure for the summit.
Although abstract submission for the 2013 Perioperative Medicine Summit is now closed please leave your email address in the comments field of any of the pages on this site and we will alert you to when the 2013 abstracts are available.
Target Audience
Internists, hospitalists, family practitioners, anesthesiologists, physician assistants, surgeons, certified nurse anesthetists, nurse practitioners and allied health professionals engaged in management of the perioperative patient.
Summit Objectives
As a result of participating in this activity, participants will be able to:
- Evaluate the need for improving, quality, safety, accountability and transparency in the US healthcare system
- Examine the outcomes of surgery in the elderly
- Outline strategies for anesthesia that are helpful in discharging patients same day
- Examine the role of biomarkers and emerging risk factors for preoperative cardiac risk stratification prior to non-cardiac surgery
- Identify the emerging issues in the management of OSA and pulmonary HTN for noncardiac surgery
- Examine the role of risk stratification tools for delirium
- Outline the principles of management of new and old antithrombotic therapies
- Appraise the importance of preventing VTE postoperatively
- Review the latest recommendations of the ACCP guidelines including those regarding extended prophylaxis
- Outline the risk factors for morbidity and mortality in hepatobiliary disease patients
- Evaluate strategies for optimal postoperative glucose control in the ICU patient
- Examine management strategies for sepsis in the surgical patient
- Evaluate the guidelines and or best practices for postoperative risk reduction in children
- Assess the appropriate use of adjunctive analgesic agents in the perioperative period
- Analyze various models of delivering preoperative care to improve perioperative care
- Examine the medicolegal issues in the management of surgical patients
- Examine the role of the hospitalist in optimizing patients for hip fracture surgery
