Perioperative Resilience and Its Implication for Managing Surgical and Critically Ill Older Adults

Resilience is defined as the dynamic ability to recover appropriate function in response to a physical stressor, such as surgery, trauma, or critical illness. I will overview the current evidence underlying the emerging construct of perioperative resilience, it’s age-related changes, and key molecular drivers, including lessons learned from hibernating mammals.

Target Audience

Anesthesiologists & CRNAs

Learning Objectives

  • Define the emerging concept of physical resilience and its relevance to perioperative medicine
  • Describe specific metabolic and immune potential drivers of resilience, including adaptations evolved by hibernating animals to cope with extreme environmental stressors
  • Summarize current status of translating this body of knowledge to the care of surgical, acutely ill and injured patients – describing potential resilience interventions
     
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)
  • 1.00 Attendance
Registration Opens: 
10/31/2018
Registration Expires: 
02/01/2020
Rating: 
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M. Podgoreanu, MD

Available Credit

  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)
  • 1.00 Attendance
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