Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Road to Recovery: Mastering Postoperative Care of the High-Risk Patient
UCL (University College London)
This comprehensive, online course covered all aspects of patient-centred postoperative care. This included enhanced recovery of the high-risk surgical patient, airway management, postoperative respiratory and cardiovascular care, pain management and nutrition/frailty.
8 weeks, 5 hours per week
Dr Eleanor Powell
Anaesthetist and Course Creator
UCL (University College London)
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explain how the Perioperative Care Unit (POCU) aligns with the principles of perioperative care for a wide range of patients
- Describe the core principles of perioperative risk and of enhanced recovery after surgery
- Identify the relevant guidance for the training of practitioners working in POCU and integrate into own competency acquisition and development
- Summarise the risk factors for major high-risk surgery and how these can be modified in the perioperative period
- Demonstrate practical knowledge of airway, breathing and circulation anatomy and the impact of anaesthesia on these body systems
Syllabus
- Perioperative Care Unit (POCU), the why before the how: compassionate, holistic, and personalised care aligned to the principles of perioperative medicine.
- How to look after patients’ airways after surgery. Assessing and managing patients’ breathing, circulation, gastrointestinal and renal function in enhanced postoperative care.
- Delirium, frailty and care of the older person in POCU. Managing pain in the POCU patient.
- The surgical patient journey and enhanced recovery after surgery.
- Working in POCU: clinical assessment, discharge criteria, medicines administration, promoting positive patient experience and communication in POCU.
- Emergencies and transfer of critically ill patients.
- Surgical specialities and patient populations in POCU (thoracic surgery, upper gastrointestinal surgery, liver surgery, colorectal surgery, urological surgery, gynaecological surgery, neurosurgery, ENT/maxillofacial surgery, endocrine, vascular, orthopaedic and obstetric surgery).
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Issued on 27th May 2025
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