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2/20/2025 - Anesthesiology Grand Rounds: Neuroscience of Anesthetic Action - Keith Vogt, MD, PhD, FASA

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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 broad brain signatures of connected consciousness and anesthesia
  • Describe principle brain areas involved in pain processing
  • Explain principle brain areas involved in memory formation
  • Recognize how different anesthetics modulate brain activity and connectivity.

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

Suggested Additional Reading:

  • Br J Anaesth. 2025 Feb;134(2):414-424.
  • Anesthesiology 2018; 128: 1241.
  • Nature Reviews Neurosci. 2010; 11:523.
  • Anesthesiology. 2021 Jul 1;135(1):69-82. 


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.

Authors:
Keith Vogt, MD, PhD, FASA — Assoc. Prof., Anes & Periop Med, Bioeng., Clin. & Translational Sc., Univ. of Pittsburgh| Dir., Anesth. Neuroscience Research Program, Dept of Anesth. & Perioperative Med.| Dir., Pittsburgh ANesTHEsiology Research (PANTHER) Track, UPMC Anesth. Res. Program| Dir. of Resident Research, UPMC Anesth. Res. Program| Dir., Anesth. Professional Practice Rotation, UPMC Anesth. Residency Program| Affiliated faculty, Cntr for the Neural Basis of Cognition and Cntr for AI Innovation in Med. Imaging
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™

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