Product Description
SNIPS is a new kind of educational course, cutting directly to the information you need to know in a short, visual format. Developed directly from content performance deficiencies from recent ABPS Continuous Certification Exam, these streamlined learning modules feature quick, easily digestible videos on important topics your peers struggled with last year.
Take advantage of this great ASPS member benefit or upgrade to our premium subscription for CME credits. This course focuses on important topics, in a short, visual Q&A format.
In this course, you will learn about:
- ASPS SNIPS Module: Reconstruction of Foot and Ankle Wounds
Reconstruction of foot and ankle wounds can be particularly challenging due to the weightbearing nature of the foot, lack of robust adjacent soft tissue, and need for post operative rehabilitation. The ultimate goal is attaining a functional limb with durable soft tissue coverage of exposed joints, tendons, fractures and any hardware.
- ASPS SNIPS Module: Lower Extremity Amputation
Lower extremity amputations can lead to very functional limbs with good quality of life, mobility and return to employment. The greater length of the residual limb requires less energy expenditure for ambulation and produces greater physical component scores. Through knee amputation have traditionally been associated with a greater stump pain and therefore many patients received above knee amputations to prevent this pain. Newer techniques at preventing stump and neuroma pain including TMR and RPNI may allow more successful through knee amputations, which require less energy expenditure for ambulation than above knee ones.
- ASPS SNIPS Module: Microvascular Principles of Lower Extremity
This module will discuss basic principles of lower extremity microsurgical reconstruction. These include several injury severity scores to assist in determining appropriate management, appropriate timing of reconstruction, flap selection, and orthoplastic principles of reconstruction.
- ASPS SNIPS Module: Patient Selection and Risk Factors Associated with Suboptimal Outcomes
Lower extremity compartment syndrome is an acute lower limb threatening condition. High energy trauma and/or reperfusion injury are the typical causes of acute compartment syndrome. Rapid, accurate diagnosis and appropriate treatment of compartment syndrome are necessary to prevent Volkmann’s Ischemic Contracture and possible limb loss.
- ASPS SNIPS Module: How to Determine and Optimize Perfusion to the Lower Extremity
Importance of a complete vascular and lymphatic assessment for lower extremity wounds, and important aspects for a successful reconstruction.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to do the following:
- Evaluate the various
surgical techniques and approaches used in foot and ankle wound reconstruction.
- Identify the importance of
patient selection and risk factors associated with suboptimal outcomes in
lower extremity amputation, and develop strategies to minimize
complications and improve outcomes.
- Recognize potential
complications and strategies for their prevention and management in
microvascular reconstruction of the lower extremity.
- Develop skills in the rapid and
accurate diagnosis of acute compartment syndrome and its differentiation
from other conditions causing lower limb pain.
- Identify the risk
factors and complications associated with impaired perfusion in the lower
extremity.
Faculty
Ahmed S. Suliman, MD, FACS
Brian Mailey, MD, FACS
Fernando A. Herrera, MD, FACS
Milton B. Armstrong, MD, FACS
Isis Scomacao, MD
Accreditation
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Designation
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Of the 1.0 credit, 0.5 have been identified as applicable to patient safety.
Disclosure Policy
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) requires all instructors, planners, reviewers, managers and other individuals in a position to control or influence the content of an activity to disclose all relevant financial relationships or affiliations. All identified conflicts of interest must be resolved and the educational content thoroughly vetted by ASPS for fair balance, scientific objectivity and appropriateness of patient care recommendations. ASPS also requires faculty/authors to disclose when off-label/unapproved uses of product are discussed in a CME activity or included in related materials.
Disclaimer: All relevant financial relationships for planners, faculty and others in control of content (either individually or as a group) are reviewed by the ASPS Continuing Education Committee and have been mitigated, if applicable.
SNIPS: Lower Extremity Reconstruction Collection
1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
Patient Safety Credit: 0.5
Media: Media
Release Date: 11/15/2022
Expiration Date: 11/15/2025
Estimated Time to Complete This Course: 1 hour
*Course access ends on course expiration date
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