Course Fees

Topics

• Week 1 - Introduction to Perioperative Medicine +
  • The perioperative medicine physician.
  • Health economics: economic burden of healthcare provision, resource allocation, measuring health economic outcomes.
• Week 2 - Clinical Risk Assessment +
  • Biomarkers and organ specific
  • Physical fitness, activity and surgical outcomes
  • CPX, functional capacity
• Week 3 - Perioperative Medication Management +
  • Preoperative medication management
  • Postoperative medication management
• Week 4 - Common Early Postoperative Challenges +
  • The burden of post-operative complications
  • The common complications that occur in the early post-operative course and evidence based strategies to best detect and manage these.
  • Post-operative models of care to manage the high risk patients.
  • Future direction in reducing post-operative complications
• Week 5 - Designing Clinical Pathways +
  • Enhanced recovery after surgery pathways
• Week 6 - Ethics and Advanced Care Directives +
  • Including the very young and the very old
  • POPS
  • Ethics of informed consent