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Patient Safety course objectives:

• Recognize key patient safety risks in the perioperative setting, including infection, surgical fires, airway complications, medication errors, and IV infusion injuries.
• Apply current evidence-based guidelines and best practices to prevent infection, ensure proper equipment hygiene, and protect both patients and providers.
• Assess and mitigate the risk of surgical fires and implement appropriate management strategies for both airway and non-airway fire events.
  Evaluate patients for potential airway difficulties and apply the ASA Difficult Airway Algorithm to manage expected and unexpected airway challenges.
• Describe common types and mechanisms of drug errors in anesthesia and implement strategies to reduce the risk of medication-related harm.
  Identify factors and high-risk medications associated with IV infiltration and extravasation, and apply best practices to prevent, recognize, and manage infusion injuries.
• Reflect on how patient safety principles apply to your clinical practice in both traditional and military settings and develop strategies to enhance safety in high-risk environments.

Patient Safety capstone objective:

• Apply patient safety learnings to real-world military clinical scenarios through case-based discussions.

PeRLS course objectives:

• Identify rare and complex prearrest circulatory crises that require immediate response in the perioperative setting.
  Manage various forms of shock that may devolve into cardiac arrest.
• Apply principles of monitoring and management of ventilation, gas trapping, and resuscitation to hemodynamic
  instability and cardiac arrest.
• Outline treatment for common tachydysrhythmias and bradydysrhythmias, pump shock, airway management, and hypovolemia.
  Manage special causes of cardiac arrest including anaphylaxis, gas embolism, and malignant hyperthermia.
• Annotate ACLS algorithms to include common peri-operative causes of bradycardia, tachycardia, and Pulseless Electrical Activity

PeRLS capstone objective:

• Apply principles of perioperative resuscitation and life support to real-world military clinical scenarios through case based discussions

Military anesthesiologists—physician anesthesiologists practicing in both stateside and deployed setting

Please see faculty listed on the individual products and meetings.

The American Society of Anesthesiologists remains strongly committed to providing the best available evidence-based clinical information to participants of this educational activity and requires an open disclosure of any potential conflict of interest identified by our faculty members. It is not the intent of the American Society of Anesthesiologists to eliminate all situations of potential conflict of interest, but rather to enable those who are working with the American Society of Anesthesiologists to recognize situations that may be subject to question by others. All disclosed conflicts of interest are reviewed by the educational activity course director/chair to ensure that such situations are properly evaluated and, if necessary, resolved. The American Society of Anesthesiologists educational standards pertaining to conflict of interest are intended to maintain the professional autonomy of the clinical experts inherent in promoting a balanced presentation of science. Through our review process, all American Society of Anesthesiologists activities are ensured of independent, objective, scientifically balanced presentations of information. Disclosure of any or no relationships will be made available for all educational activities.

All relevant financial relationships for the planners of this activity have been mitigated.

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