General Surgery: Transfusion, Coagulation, and Vascular Surgery (Audio-Digest Foundation General Surgery Continuing Medical Education (CME). Volume 60, Issue 14)

Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners – physicians and other healthcare professionals – with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.

Audio-Digest General Surgery is specifically designed to provide the participant with state-of-the-art information, including, but not limited to:

Hazards in the operating room

Professional liability, risk management, and quality improvement

Blood products and transfusion issues

Comorbid illness in the surgical patient

Surgical management of oncologic conditions

Intraoperative and postoperative infection

Preoperative patient evaluation, including surgical risk assessment

Critical care, postoperative recovery and complications

Management of acute and chronic pain

Trauma and burns