Perioperative Geriatric Care State of the Union 2021 Webinar [Video]

Hosted by the Committee on Geriatric Anesthesia and the Subcommittee Perioperative Brain Health Initiative.

Watch expert panelists discuss practical implementation strategies for the geriatric patient. Key areas of focus will include frailty assessments and optimization, use of prehabilitation for optimization, and leveraging multidisciplinary care for the geriatric patient.

Moderators:
Dr. Julie McSwain, Chair Committee on Geriatric Anesthesia
Dr. Carol Peden, Chair of the Subcommittee, Perioperative Brain Health Initiative.

Panelists:
Daniel McIsaac, MD, MPH, FRCPC, Associate Professor Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, University of Ottawa
Itay Bentov, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, Adjunct Associate Professor Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Harborview Medical Center
Sheila Barnett, MD, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Harvard Medical School , Chief Medical Officer , Beth Israel Deaconess Milton Hospital.

Perioperative Brain Health Initiative Town Hall: Evaluating the Older Patient for Surgery [Video]

Watch Perioperative Brain Health Initiative Subcommittee Chair, Dr. Carol Peden, and a panel of brain health experts and thought leaders discuss:

• Cognitive evaluations using telemedicine, Catherine Price, PhD, ABPP/CN
• Blood based biomarkers to assess perioperative vulnerability, Henrik Zetterberg, MD, PhD
• Intraoperative EEG to assess perioperative vulnerability, Miles Berger, MD, PhD  
• Delirium and COVID-19, M. Brandon Westover, MD, PhD

Moderators:
Carol J. Peden, MB, ChB, MD, FRCA, FICM, MPH
Roderic Eckenhoff, MD
Jeanine Wiener-Kronish, MD

Patient Describes Postoperative Delirium Experience [Video]

Lee Fleisher, M.D., Chair, ASA Ad Hoc Committee on Brain Health Initiative, interviews Irv, who experienced several postoperative delirium episodes during his 51 hours of hospitalization. He described his hallucinations so intense he thought he would fall out of bed. | July 24, 2018

Update on Perioperative Neurocognitive Disorder (PND) research [Video]

Lee Fleisher, M.D., Chair, ASA Ad Hoc Committee on Brain Health Initiative, provides an update on Perioperative Neurocognitive Disorder (PND) research and the Perioperative Brain Health Initiative Summit at ANESTHESIOLOGY^® 2018. | October 15, 2018

Interview with Patient About Postoperative Delirium [Video]

Lee Fleisher, M.D., Chair, ASA Ad Hoc Committee on Brain Health Initiative, interviews Kathy, a woman who experienced postoperative delirium shortly after a procedure. Her “memory fog” was acknowledged by her surgeon but lasted longer than expected. | July 24, 2018