This e-module on High-Flow Nasal Oxygen (HFNO) Therapy has been designed to update your knowledge on how to best perform HNFO in the perioperative and critical care setting, about its uses and limitations in anaesthesia and critical care.

After taking part learners will be able to:

• List the indications and limitations for HFNO during anaesthesia and intensive care;
• Describe the physiology behind the use of HFNO;
• Discuss the relevance of the use of HFNO therapy.

This e-module on Patient Blood Management (PBM) has been designed ​to have a general overview of PBM, including pre-operative anaemia, and minimizing blood loss before, during, and after surgery.

After taking part learners will be able to:

• List medications that affect haemostasis, recall their respective cessation intervals and reverse options;
• Describe the mechanisms of severe/massive bleeding and means to avoid massive transfusion (PBM) and name massive transfusion protocols;
• Identify perioperative strategies that minimise blood loss;
• Indicate the triggers for allogeneic blood transfusions and procoagulant drugs;
• Discuss the main recommendations of the evidence-based guidelines in this field and their limitations.

This e-module was created for Anaesthesiologists, Intensive Care Medicine doctors and surgeons who wish to update their knowledge of perioperative brain monitoring and how to best perform brain monitoring in the perioperative setting.
This educational initiative was designed to provide learners with an overview of the four most relevant neuromonitoring elements (oxygenation, function, driving pressure and blood flow) and the methods and tools used to assess them.

After Taking this e-module, learners will be able to:

• List the indications and limitations for brain monitoring during anaesthesia and Intensive Care;
• Discuss the relevance of the use of brain monitoring devices during Anaesthesia and Intensive Care;
• Interpret basic patterns of brain monitoring readings;
• Critically appraise the available literature on brain monitoring devices.

The Normothermia curriculum is designed to provide learners with the fundamentals of the most relevant European Guidelines on preventing hypothermia, and experiment with different scenarios in the context of potential IPH.

This Curriculum features:

• An introduction module about IPH featuring
• The causes of perioperative hypothermia
• Inadvertent perioperative hypothermia
• The importance of warming
• The consequences of hypothermia
• Excessive heat in the OR
• A module on perioperative thermal management and infection control
• A module on active warming

This e-module on Perioperative Hypothermia is designed to help learners recognise the importance of perioperative hypothermia prevention and develop strategies to minimise intraoperative hypothermia.

After taking this e-module, learners will:

• know the most important adverse outcomes associated with perioperative hypothermia
• know the risk factors for the development of perioperative hypothermia
• know the importance of active prewarming before induction of anaesthesia
• know the importance of intraoperative warming therapy
• know the indications for fluid warming
• know the possibilities and pitfalls of different core temperature measurement sites

This e-module will cover two important topics, one being the Supraglottic Airway Devices in obese patients and the second being Non-invasive ventilation in Obese patients.
 

Participants will be able to integrate NIV as part of the bundle approach to improve pulmonary care.

This e-module will help learners refresh their knowledge on some of the most important points related to Postoperative Pulmonary Complications (PPC).

After taking part learners will be able to:

• Recognize the importance of Postoperative Pulmonary Complications (PPC).
• Identify patients at risk for PPC.
• Know which ventilation settings can cause PPC and which can protect against it.
• Develop strategies to minimise and treat PPC.