Anesthetic Practice
Activity
Clerkship Teaching Session
Clerkship Teaching Session
Curriculum Block
Anesthesia Rotation / Clerkship
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Objectives
Clerkship Objectives
- Describe systematic mechanisms to increase safety in the delivery of inhalation and intravenous drugs including labeling of syringes, needle recapping, use of needleless systems, preventing hypoxic anesthetic mixtures, etc.
- Explain the concept of balanced anesthesia and its role in modern general anesthetics
- Describe the anatomy relevant to epidural or spinal anesthetic techniques. Explain the role of regional anesthesia in modern anesthetic practice.
- Describe the physiologic changes associated with pregnancy and explain their implication on anesthetic management
- Describe the main physiologic differences between pediatric and adult patients and explain their implication on anesthetic management
- Describe the anesthetic management of the patient undergoing Cesarean section
- Explain the presentation and management of malignant hyperthermia as an example of the hypermetabolic state
- Place appropriate monitoring devices prior to induction of anesthesia (EKG, NIBP, SpO2)
Tags
Curriculum Block
Anesthesia Rotation
Clerkship
Discipline
Anesthesiology
McMaster Program Competencies
1.99 Other Patient Care
2.2 Apply biomedical scientific principles fundamental to health care for patients and populations.
2.3 Apply principles of clinical sciences to diagnostic and therapeutic decision-making, clinical problem-solving, and other aspects of evidence-based healthcare
2.4 Apply principles of epidemiological sciences to the identification of health problems, risk factors, treatment strategies, resource allocation, and disease prevention/health promotion efforts for patients and populations
3.99 Other practice-based learning and improvement
4.99 Other interpersonal and communication skills
5.99 Other professionalism
6.99 Other systems-based practice
8.99 Other personal and professional development
MeSH
Anesthesia [E03.155]
Anesthetics [D27.505.696.277.100]
