Internal Medicine Course Recordings
ACP’s seven-hour collection of course lectures and discussions is tailored specifically to meet the evolving needs of practicing internists who care for patients with medical comorbidities undergoing surgical procedures.
Expert clinician-educators cover:
- guidelines and best practices for preoperative laboratory testing, perioperative medication use, and common anesthesia-related issues.
- preoperative validated risk assessment tools, strategies to mitigate risk, and management of patients with a variety of pre- and postsurgery cardiac and pulmonary problems.
- postoperative nausea and vomiting, preoperative blood pressure control, and fasting before surgery
- postoperative nausea and vomiting, preoperative blood pressure control, and fasting before surgery.
- managing perioperative medications; preoperative cardiac findings (abnormal ECGs, aortic murmurs, pacemakers, AICD devices)
- management of cardiac-indicated antiplatelet agents and the appropriate use of direct oral anticoagulants in the perioperative period, which will include rescue and reversal agents for emergent surgery.
- key management strategies for frail, elderly patients; patients with chronic kidney disease; and patients with substance use disorders.
- using the target-specific anticoagulants
- managing cannabis, suboxone, and methadone
Course Director:
Geno J. Merli, MD, MACP, FHM, FSVM
Professor, Medicine & Surgery, Associate Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President, Vascular Medicine/Jefferson Vascular Department, Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, Philadelphia, PA
CME/MOC:
Up to 7
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™ and MOC Points
Expires June 20, 2025
active
Cost:
Discounted to Members
Format:
Video Recordings
Product:
Internal Medicine Course Recordings
ACP’s dynamic, on-demand course recordings are a series of lectures and discussions presented in seven or fourteen hour packages on high-yield topics, applicable to daily patient care.