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.

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.

• Improve your understanding of paediatric perioperative medicine
• Explore the subtleties and nuances of the paediatric patient and how to care for them appropriately
• Assess your knowledge of paediatric perioperative care before and after completion of the course
• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to understand the complexities of the paediatric perioperative journey
• Compare your current practices in paediatric perioperative management and take away learning points from this course to improve your practice
• Debate with other learners about current practices and ways to improve care
• Develop your understanding in paediatric perioperative medicine and the journey of the child. Find ways to improve overall safety and positive patient outcomes
• Demonstrate learning through quizzes and tests throughout the course
• Model new learning in your own institutes
• Evaluate areas of preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative management of the paediatric patient
• Modify patient experiences and safety through this course
• Reflect on your own experiences and what you can take from this course when managing a paediatric patient
• Summarise the journey of a child through hospital including the special areas we discuss in the final week