Who should attend
This course is aimed at Clinicians involved in the perioperative care of cardiac patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery. This includes (but is not limited to) Anaesthesiologists, Surgeons, Perioperative Physicians, General Practitioners, Intensive Care Clinicians, Nurses.
What you will learn
- Correlate the pathogenesis of hypertension, coronary artery disease, cardiac failure, congenital heart disease, valvular lesions, and pulmonary hypertension with patient history and clinical examination.
- Design a strategy for the assessment of the cardiac patient requiring non-cardiac surgery.
- Develop a comprehensive perioperative management plan based on the essential components of a thorough examination of the cardiac patient.
- Interpret the findings from perioperative cardiac investigations to classify a patient's perioperative cardiovascular risk.
- Formulate a perioperative management plan for patients with complex respiratory conditions.
- Critically evaluate the findings of perioperative cardiac investigations including echocardiography.
- Develop a framework for recognising and managing arrhythmias that may occur during the perioperative period.
- Construct a plan for the management of cardiovascular implantable electronic devices that are commonly encountered during perioperative care.
- Collaborate as part of a multidisciplinary perioperative medicine team to organise an appropriate perioperative plan to maximise the patient's perioperative outcome.
Program structure
12 Modules including (may be subject to change) Understanding Cardiovascular Risk, Coronary Artery Disease, Valvular Heart Disease, Heart Failure, Pulmonary Hypertension, Respiratory Disease and Post-Operative Complications, Exercise Capacity, and Pulmonary Function Test, Understanding Echocardiography, Arrhythmias, Pacemakers, and AICDs, Endocarditis, Myocarditis, and Cardiomyopathies, Perioperative Hypertension, Perioperative Hypotension.
