POM5101 Perioperative medicine and cardiorespiratory disease

When you finish this unit, you should be able to:

1. 1

   Correlate the pathogenesis of hypertension, coronary artery disease, cardiac failure, congenital heart disease, valvular lesions and pulmonary hypertension with patient history and clinical examination. 

2. 2

   Recognise and manage arrhythmias that may occur during the perioperative period.

3. 3

   Describe the management of cardiovascular implantable electronic devices that are commonly encountered during perioperative care.

4. 4

   Summarise the impact of these cardiovascular disorders during the perioperative period and develop a framework for the assessment of these increasingly complex patients.

5. 5

   Critically evaluate the findings of perioperative cardiac investigations including echocardiography. 

6. 6

   Use the findings from perioperative cardiac investigations to classify a patient's perioperative cardiovascular risk.

7. 7

   Explain the essential components of aera thorough examination of the cardiac patient and formulate a suitable/appropriate/feasible management plan.

8. 8

   Formulate a perioperative management plan for patients with complex respiratory conditions.

9. 9

   Work collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary perioperative medicine team to organise an appropriate perioperative plan to maximise the patient's perioperative outcome.