Preoperative and Perioperative Care

Safe, efficient surgery begins long before the incision and continues well past the final suture. This session distills evidence-based pathways that reduce complications, shorten length of stay, and elevate patient experience across the entire operative journey—risk assessment, optimization, anesthesia planning, intraoperative coordination, and post-anesthesia recovery. Participants will learn how to integrate cardiac and pulmonary risk tools, frailty and nutrition scoring, medication reconciliation, and anticoagulation strategies with fluid, temperature, and glucose stewardship to improve outcomes across specialties and settings. We emphasize team briefs, role clarity, and structured handoffs that prevent omissions and delays, along with pragmatic elements of ERAS that reliably reduce PONV, ileus, and pain while preserving mobility and function.

If you’re searching for Preoperative & Perioperative Care, Surgery Conference, or ERAS pathways, this page outlines practical steps to move from guideline intent to daily reliability. We connect optimization clinics to the OR by aligning risk scores with anesthesia and surgical plans; translate physiology into ventilation, positioning, and hemodynamics; and build recovery pathways that address pain, delirium, sleep, and nutrition without over-reliance on opioids.

The session also addresses equity and access—language support, cost-sensitive prescribing, and transport-friendly scheduling—so protocols are genuinely usable for diverse patient populations. We will review how to use point-of-care ultrasound for volume status and line placement; when to deploy regional blocks for same-day discharge; and how to employ checklists, EHR prompts, and dashboards to close the loop on antibiotics, VTE prophylaxis, and sugar/temperature control. Case vignettes illustrate high-value choices (e.g., beta-blockers, SGLT2 timing, antiplatelet holds, anemia management) and how to escalate care early when physiology drifts.

Finally, we highlight operational elements—pre-op clinic design, staffing models, recovery room flow, and handoff scripts—that transform best practices into predictable results. By the end, attendees will have a turnkey playbook to implement or refine perioperative programs that are safe, humane, and measurably effective across general and specialty surgery.