Tuesday, October 18, 2022 from 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM PDT at Continental Ballroom 6
Available for 1.50 hours of CPE credit
Activity Number: 0217-0000-22-191-L05-P
Activity Type: A Knowledge-Based Activity
The Perioperative PRN Educational Programming Committee will provide an education session focused on the safe application of mainstay perioperative pharmacotherapeutics to non-perioperative care settings. Specific topics will include 1) utilization of volatile anesthetics outside of the operating room, 2) the application of medication monitoring technology used in the operating room (e.g. hemodynamic monitoring devices, bispectral index) to the critical care setting, and 3) perioperative medication safety best practices and survey results from the 2021 Institute for Safe Medication Practices Perioperative Self-Assessment. The target audience of this session is pharmacists practicing in perioperative and critical care areas. The purpose is to provide the audience with clinical and operational pearls to improve perioperative medication safety.
 | Moderator: William R. Vincent, III, Pharm.D., BCCCP
Clinical Pharmacy Coordinator – Surgery
Boston Medical Center
Boston, Massachusetts
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Learning Objectives
1. Review literature supporting the use of volatile anesthetics in non-operative settings.
2. Describe ideal candidates and monitoring necessary for use of volatile anesthetics in an ICU setting.
3. Summarize the performance characteristics and potential uses of novel intraoperative monitoring technologies in critically ill patients.
4. Discuss bispectral index and non-invasive hemodynamic monitoring and its application to the management of sedation and vasopressory therapy, respectively.
5. Explain key practices identified by the ISMP self-assessment that can be applied in the perioperative setting.
6. Identify strategies to leverage pharmacist involvement in promoting medication safety in the perioperative setting.