
Preoperative Management - (Previously Recorded May 2025 Lunch and Learn)
This monthly learning session focuses on the critical aspects of preoperative management, equipping healthcare providers with the knowledge and skills to optimize patient care before surgery. Participants will learn to conduct comprehensive preoperative assessments, encompassing thorough medical history reviews, physical examinations, and appropriate diagnostic testing. The program emphasizes the importance of patient education and shared decision-making, highlighting the need for clear communication regarding risks, benefits, and alternative treatment options. Additionally, participants will explore strategies for optimizing patients' physical and nutritional status, including addressing pre-existing medical conditions and providing guidance on diet and lifestyle modifications to ensure the best possible surgical outcomes.
Target Audience
Iowa Surgical providers
Clinical teams
Learning Objectives
Describe the essential components of a thorough preoperative assessment, including medical history, physical examination, and appropriate diagnostic testing.
Explain the importance of patient education and shared decision-making in the preoperative period, including discussing risks, benefits, and alternative treatment options.
Outline strategies for optimizing patients' physical and nutritional status before surgery, including addressing pre-existing medical conditions and providing guidance on diet and lifestyle modifications.
Additional Information
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Dr. Jennifer Hah
As an anesthesiologist, pain medicine specialist, and clinical epidemiologist, my research interests span development of novel psychotherapeutic interventions at the intersection of pain, prescription opioid addiction, and psychology. As an NIH-funded researcher I am working to develop novel interventions (behavioral, medical technology, medical device) to prevent continued pain and opioid use after surgery. My clinical interests include treatment of chronic pelvic pain conditions including painful bladder syndrome/interstitial cystitis, endometriosis, pelvic floor myofascial pain, pudendal neuralgia, peripheral nerve entrapments, pelvic adhesions, vulvodynia, and chronic constipation.
Don Stader Don Stader, MD FACEP FASAM is a board-certified emergency and addiction medicine physician, who works at Swedish Medical Center and Lincoln Health in Colorado. Don is also the founder and Executive Director of The Naloxone Project. He is the founder and past chair of Colorado ACEP's Opioid Task Force, the Editor-in-Chief of COACEP's 2017 Opioid Prescribing & Treatment Guidelines and the CO's CURE’s guidelines on pain control and opioid stewardship. Don served for over 2 years as the Senior Pain Management & Opioid Policy Physician Adviser for the Colorado Hospital Association and serves on multiple national and local committees addressing the opioid epidemic in Colorado and across the nation, he is the current chair of ACEP’s Pain & Addiction Management Section. He is the Medical Director of the Compass Opioid Stewardship Program, a nationwide initiative to improve pain control, prescribing habits, addiction treatment and opioid stewardship for primary care clinicians.
Accreditation: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Iowa Medical Society (IMS). Compass Healthcare Collaborative is accredited by the IMS to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Designation: Compass designates this live activity for a maximum of 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Commercial Support: This activity was developed without support from any ineligible company. *The ACCME defines ineligible companies as those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Note: The ACCME does not consider providers of clinical service directly to patients to be commercial interests unless the provider of clinical services is owned, or controlled by, and ACCME defined ineligible company.
Disclosure: Compass adheres to the Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. The content of this activity is not related to products or the business lines of an ACCME-defined ineligible company. None of the planners or moderators for this educational activity have relevant financial relationships to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing products used by or on patients.
Available Credit
- 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™