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Postoperative Management-CME Paid Option
This monthly learning session addresses postoperative management, focusing on ensuring patient safety and promoting optimal recovery. Participants will learn the essential elements of immediate postoperative care, including monitoring of vital signs, effective pain management techniques, and strategies for preventing common complications. The program will also explore strategies for promoting patient recovery and rehabilitation, emphasizing early mobilization, proper wound care, and adequate nutritional support. Finally, participants will gain expertise in discharge planning and patient education, ensuring a seamless transfer from the hospital to the home environment by providing patients with the necessary information and resources for continued healing and self-care.
Target Audience
Iowa Surgical providers
Clinical teams
Learning Objectives
Describe the essential elements of immediate postoperative care, including monitoring vital signs, managing pain, and preventing complications.
Explain strategies for promoting patient recovery and rehabilitation after surgery, including early mobilization, wound care, and nutritional support.
Outline methods for discharge planning and patient education, ensuring a smooth transfer from hospital to home and providing patients with the information and resources they need for continued healing and self-care.
Don Stader, MD FACEP FASAM
Dr. Stader is a board-certified emergency and addiction medicine physician, who works at Swedish Medical Center and Lincoln Health in Colorado. Don is also the founder and Executive Director of The Naloxone Project. He is the founder and past chair of Colorado ACEP's Opioid Task Force, the Editor-in-Chief of COACEP's 2017 Opioid Prescribing & Treatment Guidelines and the CO's CURE’s guidelines on pain control and opioid stewardship. Don served for over 2 years as the Senior Pain Management & Opioid Policy Physician Adviser for the Colorado Hospital Association and serves on multiple national and local committees addressing the opioid epidemic in Colorado and across the nation, he is the current chair of ACEP’s Pain & Addiction Management Section. He is the Medical Director of the Compass Opioid Stewardship Program, a nationwide initiative to improve pain control, prescribing habits, addiction treatment and opioid stewardship for primary care clinicians.
Accreditation: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Iowa Medical Society (IMS). Compass Healthcare Collaborative is accredited by the IMS to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Designation: Compass Healthcare Collaborative designates this live activity for a maximum of 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Commercial Support: This activity was developed without support from any ineligible company. *The ACCME defines ineligible companies as those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Note: The ACCME does not consider providers of clinical service directly to patients to be commercial interests unless the provider of clinical services is owned, or controlled by, and ACCME defined ineligible company.
Disclosure: Compass Healthcare Collaborative (Compass) adheres to the Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. The content of this activity is not related to products or the business lines of an ACCME-defined ineligible company. None of the planners or moderators for this educational activity have relevant financial relationships to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing products used by or on patients. Dr Hah, discloses she is a consultant for Nalu Medical and SPR Therapeutics. Compass have identified, reviewed, and mitigated all conflicts of interest that speakers or relevant staff disclosed prior to the delivery of any educational activity. Remaining persons in control of content have no relevant financial relationships.
Note: AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ are accepted for nursing and other healthcare discipline license renewal purposes, provided the topic is relevant to the applicant’s field or discipline. After participating, you will receive a Certificate of Attendance detailing the number of AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ you can claim. This certificate is provided for self-reporting requirements and must be submitted to your state board for license renewal.
Available Credit
- 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Price
Registration Options:
•Free Access (No CME Credit) – View content only
•Paid Access with CME Credit – $25.00 Includes access to the course content, pre and post-test, and CME Certificate
Disclaimer:
This material was prepared by Compass Healthcare Collaborative (Compass)
Fees are charged solely for individuals seeking Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits. All educational materials are provided at no cost and are freely accessible regardless of CME participation. This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Iowa Medical Society (IMS). Compass is accredited by the IMS to provide continuing medical education for physicians.