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MEDtalks Webinar: Perioperative Glycemic Control and Surgical Site Infection

Date/Time: Friday, March 28, 2025 | 12-1 p.m.

Webinar Overview:
Review literature indicating the importance of glycemic control in surgical site infections for nondiabetics and diabetics and identify strategies for implementing a glycemic control pathway for perioperative patients.

Speaker:
David Goodman, MD, PhD
Medical Director of Quality and Safety 
Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital 

Moderator:
Chintan D. Mistry MD, FACEP, FAAEM
Chief Medical Officer, 
South Chicagoland Area

Objectives:
Upon completion of the activity, the learner should be able to:

  • Describe glycemic control as one of the factors associated with increased odds of surgical infections.
  • Compare the differences between diabetics and non-diabetics in the association of hyperglycemia and wound infections.
  • Identify strategies for implementing a glycemic control pathway for perioperative patients

Target Audience: Physicians, APCs, nurses and other interested health care professionals

 

Session date: 
03/28/2025 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm CDT
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  • 1.00 American Board of Surgery
    Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME and Self-Assessment requirements of the American Board of Surgery's Continuous Certification program. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABS credit.
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    Aurora Health Care is accredited by the Wisconsin Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Aurora Health Care designates this activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
  • 1.00 Attendance
    Attendance Credit
  • 1.00 Continuing Nursing Education (CE)
    Aurora Health Care is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Wisconsin Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. 1.00 contact hours have been awarded to this activity by the Wisconsin Nursing Association. To receive contact hours, participants must attend the entire activity.
  • 1.00 Physician Associates Credit
    Advocate Health has been authorized by the American Academy of Physician Associates (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 1.00 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.

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