MEDI6230
Perioperative Diabetes Management
10 Units
Not available in 2012
Previously offered in 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004
This is a distance-learning course for medical practitioners providing clinical services to diabetic patients undergoing surgery. This practice based course aims to provide an in depth understanding of the nature of perioperative stress and its effects on diabetes control. It will focus on the crucial importance of preoperative assessment, its relevance to the operative state and the crucial elements that need correction before surgery is undertaken. It will assist candidates to recognise the limitations of preoperative management and enhance their skills in achieving intraoperative and immediate postoperative control. The management topics will encompass the postoperative periods including post discharge.
ObjectivesThe candidate should gain a good understanding of; 1. The importance of considering the preoperative state of a diabetic with respect to clinical, metabolic and surgical parameters and understand the significance of each parameter. 2. How to assess each of these factors and how to control the factors that are amenable, before surgery; to identify those which are constant, irrespective of the setting, and to identify those that change only after surgery is undertaken. 3. The intraoperative and immediate postoperative control required. 4. The elements required in the long term postoperative care of diabetic patients. | |
Content- Review of the evidence for the importance of preoperative assessment and perioperative correction of various factors including the control of blood glucose, and the limitations of these approaches in the perioperative setting. - Identification of one approach suitable in the candidate's own setting and a description of how the candidate would implement this with a selected group of patients. - Implementation of the selected approach, evaluation and reporting on outcomes. | |
Replacing Course(s)N/A | |
TransitionN/A | |
Industrial Experience0 | |
Assumed KnowledgeKnowledge equivalent to that gained in an MBBS degree and from the course,Introduction to Diabetes Care, will be assumed. Participants must be medical practitioners working in area of diabetes care. | |
Modes of DeliveryDistance Learning : Paper Based External Mode | |
Teaching MethodsCase Study Problem Based Learning Experience Based Learning Integrated Learning Self Directed Learning Student Projects | |
Assessment Items
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Contact HoursProblem Based Learning: for 8 hour(s) per Week for Full Term |