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5/16/2024 Anesthesiology Grand Rounds -Thoracic Aortic Dissection The Pittsburgh Paradigm

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INTRODUCTION

Credit Hours: CME 0.75

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 the acuity and natural history of acute aortic dissection to efficiently triage and manage patients
  • Tailor guideline-based management of acute aortic dissection to loco-regional experience.
  • Employ the operative techniques of managing acute aortic dissection.
  • Identify gaps in knowledge to further outcomes research in acute aortic dissection. 

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 0.75 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. Sultan I, Brown JA, Serna-Gallegos D, Thirumala PD, Balzer JR, Paras S, Fleseriu C, Crammond DJ, Anetakis KM, Kilic A, Navid F, Gleason TG. Intraoperative neurophysiologic monitoring during aortic arch surgery. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2023 Jun;165(6):1971-1981.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2021.07.025.
  2. Brown JA, Navid F, Serna-Gallegos D, Aranda-Michel E, Wang Y, Bianco V, Sultan I. Long-term outcomes of hemiarch replacement with hypothermic circulatory arrest and retrograde cerebral perfusion. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2023 Aug;166(2):396-406.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2021.07.038. 
  3. Sultan I, Bianco V, Patel HJ, Arnaoutakis GJ, Di Eusanio M, Chen EP, Leshnower B, Sundt TM, Sechtem U, Montgomery DG, Trimarchi S, Eagle KA, Gleason TG. Surgery for type A aortic dissection in patients with cerebral malperfusion: Results from the International Registry of Acute Aortic Dissection. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2021 May;161(5):1713-1720.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2019.11.003.

Authors:
Ibrahim Sultan, MD — Professor and Chief, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Executive Vice Chair, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Co-Director, UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute
Dr. Sultan stated that UPMC receives research support from Abbott, Atricure, Artivion, Boston Scientific, Edwards, Medtronic and Terumo Aortic.
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™

The University of Pittsburgh is an affirmative action, equal opportunity institution.