Due to the inherent knowledge, skills, practice locations, and populations of patients served by practitioners of anesthesiology and/or emergency and critical care medicine, the physicians, nurses, and other such advanced care providers are summoned to interpret the EKG reading and often treat the underlying dysrhythmias. This program is designed to update these practitioners with the latest information on this body of scientific information. This course offers 7 contact hours.

This course is focused on and will look at patient safety, healthcare quality and risk management in terms of how these issues impact the delivery of health care in various settings as well as what is being done by the stakeholders involved to make future improvements. This course provides 12 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits / 12 CEC and satisfies the requirement of the Pennsylvania State Board of Medicine for CME in risk management study.

The use of ultrasound imaging for regional anesthesia is an emerging and important technique in anesthesiology. It can improve both the quality, success rate, and safety of regional anesthesia needle placement for regional blocks. It allows real time visualization of the nerves and the surrounding structures with real time guidance prior to advancing the needle and visual confirmation of the local anesthetic spread and central line placement. This course offers 8 contact hours.