Anesthesiology: Pacemakers and Automatic Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Devices (Series Name: Audio-Digest Foundation Anesthesiology Continuing Medical Education (CME). Book 52)

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 Anesthesiology is specifically designed to provide the participant with state-of-the-art information including, but not limited to:

Hazards of working in the OR
Hemostasis and hemotherapy
Opioids vs. non-opioid anesthesia
Inhalation anesthesia
Muscle relaxants
Local anesthetics
Preoperative medication
Airway management
Monitoring the anesthetized patient
Epidural and spinal anesthesia
Peripheral nerve blockade
Cancer therapy and its anesthetic implications
The allergic response
Anesthesia for nonoperative locations
Postoperative recovery
Management of acute and chronic pain

The goal of this program is to improve anesthesia management of patients with pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillator devices (ICDs). After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1: Identify the indications for ICDs.

2: Explain the significance of pacemaker codes.

3: Recognize and discuss the mechanisms that cause pacemaker syndrome.

4: List the benefits of cardiac resynchronization therapy.

5: Plan appropriate perioperative management of patients with ICDs.