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4/16/26 Anesthesiology Grand Rounds -The changing landscape of OBA: How to overcome the challenges to ensure patient safety

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Credit Hours: 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:

  • Analyze and apply the “6 Ps” paradigm to develop and implement safe, efficient systems in health care practice.
  • Describe and differentiate current procedures performed in the office-based setting.
  • Summarize and integrate recent initiatives in office-based anesthesia (OBA) safety research, publications, the updated OBA Emergency Manual, and educational opportunities for emerging clinicians.

Suggested Additional Reading:

  1. Young S, Osman B, Shapiro FE. Office-based anesthesia: a contemporary update on outcomes, incentives, and controversies. Curr Opin Anaesthesiol. 2023 Dec 1;36(6):643-648. doi: 10.1097/ACO.0000000000001310. Epub 2023 Sep 8. PMID: 37724581.
  2. Young S, Osman B, Shapiro FE. Safety considerations with the current ambulatory trends: more complicated procedures and more complicated patients. Korean J Anesthesiol. 2023 Oct;76(5):400-412. doi: 10.4097/kja.23078. Epub 2023 Mar 10. PMID: 36912006; PMCID: PMC10562071. 
  3. Talluto J, Duong N, Chinthareddy VR, Osman BM, Young SK, Shapiro FE. 2025 ISOBS OBA emergency manual: new drugs, devices, diversions, and dysfunction. Curr Opin Anaesthesiol. 2025 Aug 1;38(4):391-396. doi: 10.1097/ACO.0000000000001518. Epub 2025 May 16. PMID: 40492872.

Authors:
Fred E. Shapiro DO, FASA — Associate Professor of Anaesthesia,Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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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 Credits™. 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.

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