Volume and Circulatory Management
Activity
Clerkship Teaching Session
Clerkship Teaching Session
Curriculum Block
Anesthesia Rotation / Clerkship
- Indicates most relevant
Objectives
Clerkship Objectives
- Explain how euvolemia can be disturbed/altered in the perioperative period and how these alterations are managed.
- Explain the fluid management issues of the pediatric patient.
- Define shock and explain how shock can be classified (types and degree). Describe potential treatments for the patient in shock, including the rational use of vasoactive and inotropic medications.
- List potential sites for vascular access and describe complications associated with each site.
- Describe appropriate uses for the following crystalloid solutions: normal saline, Ringer's lactate, D5W, D5W/NS. Describe appropriate uses of the colloid solutions albumin and Pentaspan. Explain the complications of using these fluids.
- Describe the rational use of blood product therapy. Explain the complications of massive transfusions.
Tags
Cohort Year
2010
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]
Blood Transfusion [E02.095.135]
Blood Volume [G09.330.380.092]
Circulatory and Respiratory Physiological Phenomena [G09]
Shock [C23.550.835]
Solutions [D26.776]
