Course Description

An Overview of Perioperative Medicine, an annual course in its 5th year, has been very successful due to the collaboration of multi-specialty perioperative experts from Mayo Clinic and Jefferson Medical College.  Nearly 30 million surgical procedures are performed each year in the US alone and the literature in perioperative medicine is rapidly expanding.  As health care providers, we all interact with patients in the perioperative setting and we are often called upon to perform risk assessment or perioperative management of these patients. This course is intended to provide a clinical overview of preoperative risk assessment and postoperative issues.  The available evidence will be reviewed and incorporated, however, this course is designed to primarily focus on the clinical aspects of perioperative care and the clinical application of evidence. The format will be case-based and there will be ample opportunity to interact with the faculty.

Intended Audience

The intended audience for this course is general internists, internist sub-specialists, family medicine physicians, hospitalists, anesthesiologists, certified nurse anesthetists, surgeons, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and other allied health professionals who are involved in preoperative risk assessment and postoperative management.  We hope you will join us for 2010 at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.