A Multidisciplinary Approach to Paediatric Perioperative Medicine

Improve paediatrics with a multidisciplinary approach to perioperative medicine

Surgery can be an overwhelming experience for any patient, let alone a child. However providing compassionate and individualised perioperative pediatric care ensures comfort, manages well-being, and helps optimise patient outcomes.

This five-week course from the University College London (UCL) takes a multidisciplinary approach and applies it to paediatric care, helping healthcare professionals make young patients and their families feel supported throughout their perioperative journey.

Gain essential preoperative planning strategies

A child’s journey to surgery includes careful preoperative planning and tailored postoperative management. On this course, you’ll gain tools and expert insights to deliver successful patient outcomes.

First, you’ll understand an adolescent surgical patient’s unique anatomical, physiological, psychological and social needs.

This will help aid in your completion of preoperative assessments and assist with communicating risks and consent to their guardians.

Support your medical team during paediatric surgery and postoperative recovery

Next, you’ll focus on surgical best practices like safe anaesthesia administration and adolescent airway management.

During the course you’ll equip yourself with the tools to oversee postoperative care by identifying complications, aiding with analgesia and pain management, and responding to emergencies.

Make a difference in specialised paediatric medicine

This course also offers additional training in specialised areas of paediatric care, including trauma, neonatal, cardiac, neuro, and transplant surgery.

By the end of this course, you’ll feel confident in your ability to navigate the complexities of paediatric perioperative care, ensuring optimal outcomes for young patients and their families.

This intermediate-level course is designed for healthcare professionals interested in expanding their perioperative expertise.

It may also be helpful for parents of pediatric patients hoping to be better informed of their child’s perioperative journey.

• Introduction
• Welcome
• Introducing the child
• Different age categories
• Introducing anaesthetic equipment
• Special considerations in children
• Final considerations and summary
• Pre-operative
• Preoperative assessment
• Perioperative anxiety
• Consent
• Following the child through to theatres
• Meet the team and the environment
• Final considerations and summary
• Intra-operative
• Induction and maintenance of anaesthesia
• The paediatric airway
• Drugs, regional anaesthesia and intra-operative emergencies
• Paediatric surgery
• Final considerations and summary
• Post-operative
• Recovery
• Recovery issues
• Analgesia
• Surgical complications
• Remote site
• Final considerations and summary
• Special circumstances
• ED & Trauma
• The Neonate
• Cardiac surgery
• Neurosurgery
• Transplant surgery
• Final considerations and summary