Ambulatory, non-OR and special populations

24 topics. Open one to read it, or study them as cards.

• Ambulatory anesthesia and discharge criteria
• Anesthesia at altitude and in the hyperbaric chamber
• Anesthesia billing, medical direction and compliance
• Anesthesia in MRI and remote locations
• Bone cement, tourniquets and hip fracture
• Controlled substances: DEA rules, diversion and opioid prescribing
• Corneal abrasion and perioperative eye injury
• Electroconvulsive therapy
• ERCP and advanced endoscopy outside the OR: sedation or general anesthesia
• Free flap microvascular surgery: pressure, fluid, temperature and the failing flap
• Laparoscopy and pneumoperitoneum
• Licensure, board certification and MOCA
• Malpractice, closed claims and the National Practitioner Data Bank
• Open globe injury with a full stomach
• Ophthalmic surgery and the oculocardiac reflex
• Patient safety after a serious event: RCA, FMEA and just culture
• Postoperative nausea and vomiting
• Procedural sedation and office-based anesthesia
• Rheumatoid arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis
• Robotic surgery and steep Trendelenburg
• Sickle cell disease
• Substance use: opioids, cocaine, alcohol withdrawal
• The elderly patient and postoperative delirium
• The patient who refuses blood