NRAN80526

Prerequisites: NRAN 60316. This course is intended to provide the student with basic principles of regional anesthesia, selected disease states and their anesthetic implications, basic principles of patient assessment, preparation and interpretation of preoperative data in obstetrics. Emphasis is placed on the physiologic response to surgery, medications, and disease. Students are also provided with a clinical simulator component which includes fundamental patient interaction under the direct supervision of an instructor.