Objectives
After participating in this educational activity, attendees should be able to:
1. Recognize the importance of and apply pulmonary and hepatic preoperative risk assessment to appropriate patients
2. Understand the differences between the most common surgical cardiac risk calculators currently available and suggest a standard practice for Baystate Medical Practices
3. Appreciate that patients who have recovered from COVID-19 have increased postoperative morbidity and mortality
Faculty
Speaker Name
Ryan Quarles, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, UMMS-Baystate
Faculty Disclosure
The design and content of Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education ( CE ) activities support quality improvement in healthcare and provide fair and balanced views of therapeutic options. Faculty or planner conflicts of interest are resolved before the educational activity.
None of the planners or faculty for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. .
- 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 1.00 ANCC Contact Hours
- 1.00 BCIPE Instructional Hours