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Perioperative Medicine

Perioperative Medicine - procedure in the operating room

Access subspecialty-specific member resources, benefits, and discounts.

Discover resources that speak directly to your advanced capabilities and distinct needs. Zero in on relevant CME and member benefits with our most popular perioperative medicine offerings.

Education Just For You

Perioperative Surgical Home Implementation Guide

Find everything you need to implement a PSH at your organization, from gaining leadership’s buy-in to seeing your goals come to fruition.

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PeRLS: Perioperative Resuscitation and Life Support – The Alternative to ACLS

Explore new advanced cardiac life support training targeted toward perioperative care. See how this self-paced, online module can help you develop and maintain your skills.

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Anesthesia Quality and Patient Safety Meeting

Immerse yourself in quality improvement, patient safety, collaboration, and more at this virtual meeting each summer.

IV Infiltration and Extravasation Quality Improvement

Work at your own pace to create an action plan aimed at reducing infiltration and extravasation events while reporting outcomes on the measures taken.

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Anesthesia SimSTAT – PACU

Navigate management of a patient with acute mental status changes in the postoperative setting. This robust simulation helps you hone skills outside the OR, including nontechnical skills such as breaking bad news and exploring ethical decisions.

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Diagnostic POCUS Certificate Program

Build bedside diagnostic skills and appeal to hospital credentialing and privileging committees. Develop and demonstrate your mastery of heart, lung, gastric, and FAST diagnostic point-of-care ultrasound.

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Preventing Errors Associated with Perioperative Insulin Administration in Pediatric Patients

Recognize adverse outcomes and identify best practices for perioperative insulin administration in pediatric patients.

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Preventing Errors Associated with Perioperative Insulin Administration in Pediatric Patients Quality Improvement

Create and implement a performance improvement action plan aimed at reducing errors and adverse outcomes.

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Quality and Value Based Payment from the CMS Perspective

Delve into the state of quality and value-based payment with this keynote session from the 2021 Anesthesia Quality and Patient Safety Meeting.

Complimentary Education

From opioid safety strategies to mitigating postoperative pain and improving patients’ surgery journeys, ASA offers extensive grant-funded CME.

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Spotlight on your subspecialty

Find out what's new and what's next for perioperative medicine. Browse more than 40 subspecialty-specific sessions at ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2024.

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Additional Learning Opportunities

ANESTHESIOLOGY^® Annual Meeting

Each October, the specialty comes together to learn, share, and network. A specialized pain medicine learning track lets you zero in on relevant learning and connect within your subspecialty. Save with big member discounts.

ASA Online Community

Interact with global peers and leaders in the specialty, read blog posts, and be part of the conversation. The ASA member community is a lively space for general conversation or to reach out to members of your subspecialty.

Clinical and News Publications

In addition to ANESTHESIOLOGY^® journal's evidence-based clinical knowledge, ASA Monitor^® provides a comprehensive look at perioperative care news. It's the perfect complement!

Timely Podcasts

Stay up to date on the go with the Central Line podcast series, overviews of monthly ANESTHESIOLOGY journal content, residents' musings, and more.

ACE

Brush up on anesthesiology fundamentals and test your knowledge.

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SEE

Get the latest research from around the globe and test your knowledge.

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Practice Support

ASA^® ADVANCE: The Anesthesiology Business Event

Start each year by focusing on creating a more strategic, efficient, agile operation. Delve into challenges large and small and gather practical solutions you can put to work today.

Coding, Billing, and Payment Solutions

Maximize reimbursement and improve efficacy with up-to-date resources — make sure you're using the current releases of CROSSWALK^® and the Relative Value Guide^®.

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Group Solutions and Savings

Take full advantage of special savings and support for groups. Practices large and small qualify for discounted education, quality solutions, customized leadership training, and more.

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Standards and Guidelines

Guidelines for Patient Care in Anesthesiology

To encourage high-quality patient care, review the minimal guidelines that apply to all care involving anesthesiology personnel in all settings.

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Perioperative Management of Patients

with Implantable Defibrillators, Pacemakers, and Arrhythmia Monitors
The Heart Rhythm Society (HRS)/American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Expert Consensus Statement.

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Position Statements and Guidance

Access all ASA standards, practice guidelines, advisories and alerts, and statements crafted in response to the pandemic.

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Curated by: ASA Marketing and Communications

Date of last update: June 13, 2024