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Postoperative Management - (Previously Recorded July 2025 Lunch and Learn)
This monthly learning session addresses postoperative management, focusing on ensuring patient safety and promoting optimal recovery. Participants will learn the essential elements of immediate postoperative care, including monitoring of vital signs, effective pain management techniques, and strategies for preventing common complications. The program will also explore strategies for promoting patient recovery and rehabilitation, emphasizing early mobilization, proper wound care, and adequate nutritional support. Finally, participants will gain expertise in discharge planning and patient education, ensuring a seamless transfer from the hospital to the home environment by providing patients with the necessary information and resources for continued healing and self-care.
Target Audience
Iowa Surgical providers
Clinical teams
Learning Objectives
Describe the essential elements of immediate postoperative care, including monitoring vital signs, managing pain, and preventing complications.
Explain strategies for promoting patient recovery and rehabilitation after surgery, including early mobilization, wound care, and nutritional support.
Outline methods for discharge planning and patient education, ensuring a smooth transfer from hospital to home and providing patients with the information and resources they need for continued healing and self-care.
Additional Information
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 Handouts | 2.29 MB |
Don Stader, MD FACEP FASAM
Dr. Stader 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.
Continuing Medical Education (CME)
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.
Note: AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ are accepted for nursing and other healthcare discipline license renewal purposes, provided the topic is relevant to the applicant’s field or discipline. After participating, you will receive a Certificate of Attendance detailing the number of AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ you can claim. This certificate is provided for self-reporting requirements and must be submitted to your state board for license renewal.
Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Credit Designation: Improvement Activity (IA): This activity qualifies for MIPS credit as an Improvement Activity. Participants who successfully completed the activity are eligible for full credit for the Improvement Activities category of the MIPS program. Note: Each provider must attest to your participation and practice changes on the CMS QPP website, but you can reference the MIPS verbiage noted below.
Activity Type: Patient Safety and Practice Assessment (IA_PSPA_CME):
Activity ID: IA_PSPA_28: Completion of an Accredited Safety or Quality Improvement Program.
- Documentation includes:
- Meaningful clinician participation in a project focused on improving pain management.
- Documentation of data collection and analysis regarding prescribing patterns.
- Implementation of interventions to improve quality or safety.
- Measurement of the impact of the interventions.
Available Credit
- 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™