Casseopia Fisher – Preventing Post-Operative Complications

Outline

Types of Anesthesia and Sedation

• General and regional anesthesia
• Common complications
• Newest research in symptom management

Post-Operative Pain Control

• Complex pain management issues
• Evidence-based pain management
• Ideal vs. real world issues
• Managing effects and side effects
• Over-medication & accommodation

Physiologic Response to Surgical Stress

• Cellular level response
• Stress, inflammatory, and metabolic response
• Understanding the “ebb” and “flow” theory
• Newest research to reduce complications from surgical stress

Sepsis

• Identification and first response
• Real world scenarios and presentations
• The most up-to-date evidence to reduce infection rates

Special Situations & Ethical Issues

• Bloodless surgery
• Special considerations in GI surgery
• Consent issues
• Surgery on the DNR patient
• The ethics of evidence based surgical options

Recovery at Home

• The hospital stay as the first stage of recovery
• Newest patient education theories
• “What I wish someone had told me…”