Beta Blocker and Clonidine Protocol

home | search | email

Click Ahnold to see what he plans to do!

VA Privacy Notice

Potential CME Credit Information

Course Objectives:

Beta Blockers: Non-Cardiac Surgery for Patients with Cardiac Disease

1. Participants can describe the epidemiology of cardiac disease and patients coming for cardiac and non-cardiac surgery in the United States.
2. Participants can identify the risk factors for cardiac morbidity and mortality.
3. Participant can identify strategies for cardiac risk stratificationand describe the relative merits of each approach.
4. Participants can describe the relative merits of different strategies for cardiac risk reduction including preoperative risk stratification, pre-operative PCI, pre-operative CABG and discuss risks and benefits of each.
5. Participants can explain the risks and benefits of CABG surgery including death, MI, neurologic, and neurocognitive changes.
6. Participants can explain the risks of platelet inhibitors with and without intra-coronary stents and identify a plan of action for elective and emergency surgery for a patient with a drug eluting and non-drug eluting intracoronary stent.
7. Participants can describe different pharmacologic therapies for cardiac risk reduction including beta blockers, clonidine, and newer agents. Participant can describe the number needed to treat and cost to treat for each technique for cardiac risk reduction.
8. Participant can explain how to implement a program for cardiac risk reduction therapy.

Reducing the Risk of Perioperative Death with the Beta Blocker and Clonidine Protocol

Instructions and Introductions

Please register before beginning the course and we will contact you if and when the course is available for CME credit. You can navigate through the course using the detailed menu at above left or through the text menu at the bottom of the page. For accessibility, the lessons include background narration which can be turned off by turning down your speakers or by pressing the "Stop" button on top of your browser. The introduction is straight-forward in approach. The lessons themselves are presented in a more colloquial, and sometimes humorous vein. Part of this research project is to assess the efficacy of various pedogogical approaches, including humor. Please be sure to fill out the evaluation and feedback form at the end of taking the course. Thank you.

Principal Faculty and Credentials
Arthur Wallace, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, UCSF Medical Center
Attending Anesthesiologist, San Francisco VA Medical Center

Media used - Web-based educational materials

Method of physician participation in the learning process
Reading and/or listening to the web presentation. Online registration, quizzes and evaluation forms. Online discussion forum and email contact with principal faculty will also be available.

Estimated time to complete the course - 2 hours

Date of original release - April 3, 2005, Most recent update - June 3, 2005
Termination date - June 3, 2008

Content by Art Wallace MD PhD
Web Design by Plumsites

[ home ] [ register ] [ lessons ] [ downloads ] [ resources ] [ forum ]