Upper Peninsula Health Education Corporation

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Anesthesiology Elective
SUR 618

Prerequisite: Fourth year medical students who have successfully completed their Junior Surgery clerkship.

Objectives:

• Demonstrate improved skill in airway management.
• Understand the preoperative evaluation and preparation of the surgical patient.
• Enhance understanding of critical care physiology and pharmacology.
• Gain practical experience with invasive hemodynamic monitoring.
• Understand the basic approach to administering a general anesthetic.

This elective offers individualized teaching in the preoperative and postoperative methods of assessment and management of patients undergoing anesthesia prior to surgery.

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