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COURSE DESCRIPTION:  

Preoperative evaluation is an essential competency for internal medicine residents and for medical doctors. However, educational resources are limited on this topic. Ideally, residencies would provide an introduction to this topic prior to their residents performing preoperative assessments in clinic or during internal medicine consultation rotations.  In this lecture, we will discuss current recommendations to a patient and minimize overuse and screen for pulmonary diseases that can affect patients in perioperative period.

TARGET AUDIENCE:

Internal Medicine Physicians, Physician Assistants, Residents,  Advanced Practice Registered Nurses, Pharmacists and all other interested healthcare providers. 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

• Use and apply risk stratification for cardiac events to your patients.
• Appropriately screen for pulmonary diseases that can affect patients in the perioperative period.
• Manage a patient with diabetes in the perioperative period.
• Manage a patient on anticoagulation in the perioperative period.
• Apply current recommendations to a patient, minimizing overuse. 
   

FACULTY AND DISCLOSURES:

Lisa C. Martinez, M.D., FACP                                                                      
Assistant Professor of Medicine 
Director, Foundations of Medicine Course
Charles E Schmidt College of Medicine
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, Florida

Lisa C. Martinez, M.D., FACP, faculty for this educational activity, has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies* to disclose, and has indicated that the presentation or discussion will not include off-label or unapproved product usage.

John Rubin, M.D., director for this educational event, owns stock in AstraZeneca and Bristol Myers Squibb. He has indicated that the presentation or discussion will not include off-label or unapproved product usage. All of the relevant financial relationships listed for this individual have been mitigated.  

Kenneth Rosenthal, M.D., FACG, moderator for this educational event, indicated that he is on the Speaker’s Bureau for AbbVie, Inc. All of the relevant financial relationships listed for this individual has been mitigated. 

Non-faculty contributors and others involved in the planning, development and editing/review of the content have no relevant financial relationships to disclose with ineligible companies.*

*Ineligible companies – Companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
 

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ACCREDITATION STATEMENTS AND CREDITS

Baptist Health South Florida is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Baptist Health South Florida designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.   

This activity has been approved for 1 credit hour, CE Broker Course #20-855339, by the Florida Boards of Medicine, Podiatry, Dentistry, Osteopathic Medicine and Physician Assistants.  

This activity has also been approved for 1 credit for Nurse Practitioners, Nurses, Pharmacists and Pharmacy Techs, Athletic Trainers. Baptist Health South Florida CE Broker Provider #50-182.