Keeping up to date on Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology procedures is key to providing better patient care"

This postgraduate diploma offers specialists a global and updated vision of the perioperative management of patients undergoing cardiovascular and thoracic surgery. It includes an exhaustive selection of the most frequent procedures, as well as the most complex ones, which require constant updating.

Furthermore, among other new aspects, these stand out: preoperative evaluation, nutritional and hematometric optimization of the patient, perioperative rehabilitative physiotherapy, and new transfusion management and blood saving policies, as well as advances in monitoring such as transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography, new pulse wave analysis systems, target-guided fluid therapy, or monitoring of acute hemostasis disorders through thromboelastometry.

The program also covers the most important aspects of new drugs, cardiac transplantation management, anesthetic management without extracorporeal circulation, multimodal management of cardiac surgery, adapted to the new minimally invasive surgical approaches, as well as management of cardiac transplantation, ventricular assists of notable importance at present and with a highly relevant role in the future.

We address thoracic anesthesiology through the important advances that have taken place in the last decade. Aspects related to preoperative preparation, new criteria for resectability-operability, one-lung ventilation, different modalities of ventilatory assistance and lung protection, as well as management of cardiac transplantation, echocardiographic pulmonary monitoring, and advances in the field of post-thoracotomy pain.

You will be able to learn, through the latest educational technology, the most recent advances in Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology”

This postgraduate diploma in Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology is the most complete and up-to-date scientific program on the market. The most important features of the program include:

• Clinical cases presented by specialists in anesthesiology and other areas. The graphic, schematic, and eminently practical contents with which they are created provide scientific and practical information on the disciplines that are essential for professional practice
• Real high-resolution images of pathologies, diagnostic imaging tests and guided procedures
• Presentation of practical workshops on procedures and techniques
• Algorithm-based interactive learning system for decision-making in the presented clinical situations
• Action protocols with the most important advances in the specialty
• All this will be complemented by theoretical lessons, questions to the expert, debate forums on controversial topics, and individual reflection assignments
• With a special emphasis on evidence-based medicine and research methodologies in anesthesiology
• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection

This postgraduate diploma may be the best investment you can make when choosing a refresher program for two reasons: in addition to updating your knowledge of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology, you will obtain a qualification from Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology”

The teaching staff is made up of a team of leading anesthesiologists, who bring to this training the experience of their work, in addition to recognized specialists in other medical areas.

The multimedia content developed with the latest educational technology will provide the physician with situated and contextual learning, i.e., a simulated environment that will provide immersive training programmed to train in real situations.

This program is designed around Problem Based Learning, whereby the student must try to solve the different professional practice situations that arise during the course. For this reason, you will be assisted by an innovative, interactive video system created by renowned and experienced experts in the field of psychology with extensive teaching experience.

Incorporate the latest developments in Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology to your medical practice and improve patient prognosis"

It includes real clinical cases to bring medical practice as close as possible to the development of the program"

The main objective is to facilitate the incorporation of advances in cardiothoracic anesthesiology, so that specialists can update their knowledge in a practical way, using the latest educational technology and adapting the educational process to their real needs.

This refresher program will generate a sense of confidence in decision making during cardiothoracic anesthesia procedures, and will help you grow professionally”

General Objective

• Update specialist physicians on the procedures and techniques performed in cardiothoracic anesthesiology, incorporating the latest advances to increase the quality of their daily medical practice and improve patient prognosis

Specific Objectives

• Analyze the implication of anesthesiology in perioperative medicine, its contributions and interest
• Review the new drugs included in the anesthetic therapeutic arsenal
• know new hemostasis monitoring systems
• Analyze the implications of these drugs on anesthetic procedures
• Incorporate new strategies for hemodynamic management to regular practice
• Specify new perspectives in clinical training through virtual simulators
• Contrast therapeutic empiricism versus goal-directed monitoring, the role of advanced hemodynamic optimization
• Value simulation and teaching as a postgraduate training tool
• Evaluate the predictive factors in morbi-mortality risk determinants
• Reflect on the implications of patient safety in anesthesiology
• Review the anatomy and physiology of the cardiovascular system
• Update on cardiovascular pathophysiology and the risk factors of patients undergoing cardiovascular procedures
• Describe the different advanced hemodynamic monitoring devices, both invasive and non-invasive
• Review the pathophysiology of polytransfusion and describe the adverse effects derived from it
• Update on the specific cardiovascular procedures that have evolved in recent years, and that show differential aspects in their anesthetic management
• Review pre-anesthetic assessment in patients with coronary pathology, estimating perioperative risk factors (cardiovascular, respiratory, renal neurological)
• Review the latest advances in coronary revascularization surgery
• Describe the multimodal recovery protocols in cardiac surgery
• Assess the indications for minimally invasive procedures in cardiac surgery and incorporate them into daily medical practice
• Estimate perioperative risks (cardiovascular, respiratory, neurological, renal)
• Identify advances in comprehensive perioperative management of cardiovascular procedures in pediatric patients
• Update on techniques with transesophageal and transthoracic echocardiographic monitoring
• Incorporate new gold standard hemodynamic monitoring to the patient assessment process
• Describe the action protocol for airway difficulty in thoracic surgery
• Learn pulmonary protection measures
• Update on the processes of implantation of Non Invasive Mechanical Ventilation (NIV) in thoracic surgery, and thoracic surgery in spontaneous ventilation
• Perform  prophylaxis, management, and diagnosis of cardiovascular complications after pulmonary resection surgery
• Assess the role of lung ultrasound in thoracic surgery

A unique, key and decisive training experience to boost your professional development"