TY - JOUR
T1 - Society for the Advancement of Transplant Anesthesia
T2 - Liver Transplant Anesthesia Fellowship—White Paper Advocating Measurable Proficiency in Transplant Specialties Training
AU - Chadha, Ryan M.
AU - Crouch, Cara
AU - Zerillo, Jeron
AU - Pretto, Ernesto
AU - Planinsic, Raymond
AU - Kim, Sang
AU - Nicolau-Raducu, Ramona
AU - Adelmann, Dieter
AU - Elia, Elia
AU - Wray, Christopher L.
AU - Srinivas, Coimbatore
AU - Mandell, M. Susan
PY - 2017/12/1
Y1 - 2017/12/1
N2 - The anesthesia community has openly debated if the care of transplant patients was generalist or specialist care ever since the publication of an opinion paper in 1999 recommended subspecialty training in the field of liver transplantation anesthesia. In the past decade, liver transplant anesthesia has become more complex with a sicker patient population and evolving evidence-based practices. Transplant training is currently not required for accreditation or certification in anesthesiology, and not all anesthesia residency programs are associated with transplant centers. Yet there is evidence that patient outcome is affected by the experience of the anesthesiologist with liver transplants as part of a multidisciplinary care team. Requests for a formal review of the inequities in training opportunities and requirements led the Society for the Advancement for Transplant Anesthesia (SATA) to begin the task of developing post-graduate fellowship training recommendations. In this article, members of the SATA Working Group on Transplant Anesthesia Education present their reasoning for specialized education and conclusions about which pathways can better prepare trainees to care for complex transplant patients.
AB - The anesthesia community has openly debated if the care of transplant patients was generalist or specialist care ever since the publication of an opinion paper in 1999 recommended subspecialty training in the field of liver transplantation anesthesia. In the past decade, liver transplant anesthesia has become more complex with a sicker patient population and evolving evidence-based practices. Transplant training is currently not required for accreditation or certification in anesthesiology, and not all anesthesia residency programs are associated with transplant centers. Yet there is evidence that patient outcome is affected by the experience of the anesthesiologist with liver transplants as part of a multidisciplinary care team. Requests for a formal review of the inequities in training opportunities and requirements led the Society for the Advancement for Transplant Anesthesia (SATA) to begin the task of developing post-graduate fellowship training recommendations. In this article, members of the SATA Working Group on Transplant Anesthesia Education present their reasoning for specialized education and conclusions about which pathways can better prepare trainees to care for complex transplant patients.
KW - accreditation
KW - anesthesiology
KW - post graduate medical education
KW - practice guidelines
KW - transplantation
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U2 - 10.1177/1089253217737043
DO - 10.1177/1089253217737043
M3 - Article
C2 - 29029588
AN - SCOPUS:85032892857
VL - 21
SP - 352
EP - 356
JO - Seminars in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia
JF - Seminars in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia
SN - 1089-2532
IS - 4
ER -