Obstructive Sleep Apnea and The Ambulatory Surgery PATIENT -- Should They Stay or Should They Go?
3:45 pm - 5:00 pm, Music Box Room - 6th Floor
Course Code: PBLD-26
Speaker: DANIELLE B. LUDWIN, M.D.
Dr. Ludwin - Does not have significant financial relationships with any commercial product, manufacturer or provider.
Objective(s):
The participants will be able to:
° Discuss the pathophysiology of Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) in adults;
° Make a presumptive diagnosis of OSA in undiagnosed patients;
° Assess the eligibility of OSA patients for ambulatory surgery;
° Evaluate the effects of anesthetics on patients with OSA;
° Formulate post-operative pain control in OSA patients in an outpatient setting;
° Establish the outpatient PACU monitoring and discharge criteria for OSA patients.
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