Enhance Your Knowledge with Online General Surgery CME
Comprehensive Review of General Surgery provides guidance for preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative management, as well as management of complications. Led by Pardon R. Kenney, MD, clinically-skilled speakers offer direction in selecting operative techniques, outlining the advantages and disadvantages of both open and minimally invasive surgery. Lectures in this continuing medical education board review cover a broad range of surgical areas (vascular, breast, abdominal, alimentary tract, trauma, etc.) and reinforce important take-home points.
* Date of Original Realease: February 1, 2022
Learning Objectives
At the completion of this course, you should be able to:
- Explain the principles of prophylaxis of hospital-acquired surgical infections and appropriate antimicrobial agents
- Differentiate between the management of benign breast disease and malignant breast disease
- Outline the key features of the assessment of trauma and acute care surgery
- List the current management guidelines for emergency surgery of the large intestine
- Describe the principles of melanoma excision
- Summarize evaluation of the swollen leg and DVT diagnosis
- Discuss open versus laparoscopic surgical approaches to inguinal, femoral, umbilical, and ventral hernias
- List the treatment options for primary and secondary liver neoplasms.
- Compare management options for benign neoplasms of the esophagus and malignant neoplasms of the esophagus
- Differentiate between operative and non-operative treatment of chronic pancreatitis
- Describe the indications for and extent of resection for inflammatory bowel disease
- Compare endoscopic versus resectional management of colon neoplasms