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12/15/22 Anesthesiology Grand Rounds - Critical Care of the Obstetric Patient: An Overview

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INTRODUCTION

Credit Hours: CME 1.00

Target Audience:

Anesthesiologists and anesthesiologists-in-training and other anesthesia professionals, nurse anesthetists and anesthesia assistants.

Educational Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

  • Describe how the physiological changes in pregnancy will affect critical illness in parturient.
  • Explain mechanical ventilation strategies for the critically ill parturient.
  • Evaluate how normal physiological process has the potential to create pathological medical states or exacerbate pre-existing medical states
  • Review successful maternal and neonatal outcomes for parturients admitted to a maternal critical care facility are largely dependent on a multidisciplinary input
  • Recognize how coordination between critical care physicians, obstetric anesthesiologists, obstetricians, fetal medicine specialists, neonatologists and concerned specialists are usually vital for a good outcome

Suggested Additional Reading & Joint Accreditation Statement - Note: This Accreditation Statement Supersedes All Other Statements:

Joint Accreditation Statement:

In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.


The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Each physician should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 


Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.


Suggested Additional Reading

  1. Critical Care Medicine: January 2017 - Volume 45 - Issue 1 - p e49-e57, doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000002018
  2. https://das.uk.com/guidelines/obstetric_airway_guidelines_2015
  3. Guidelines for Diagnostic Imaging During Pregnancy and Lactation Committee Opinion CO Number 723 October 2017.

Authors:
Ian Molyneaux, MD, D.ABA — Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine University of Tennessee Health Science Center
No relationships with industry relevant to the content of this educational activity have been disclosed.
No other members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

This activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

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