Course Description
This course provides a detailed overview about the safe recovery of patients from surgery and anesthesia. In this course AT students are provided with the knowledge and skills necessary to assess and monitor patients in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) for residual anesthetic effects and surgical complications and to reinstitute care for pre-existing medical problems. This course also explains types of anesthetic complications and the approaches to improve post-anesthetic safety and quality of care, reduce postoperative adverse events, provide a uniform assessment of recovery and observe proper discharge criteria.
The course also introduces organizational concepts that often surround complications in anesthesia, and explains how to deal with complications systematically. In addition, it exposes the underlying human factors and lapses in communication involved in the development of these complications.
Course ID: ANEST 403
Credit hours | Theory | Practical | Laboratory | Lecture | Studio | Contact hours | Pre-requisite | 3 | - | ANEST 307 |
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