Are you interested in new drug research and techniques that will shape your practice, but have little time to peruse the scientific literature?  Then join what has been described as "the best journal club in anesthesiology."

The SEE Program extracts relevant emerging anesthesia topics from more than 40 of today's leading international medical journals and presents the findings in two issues per year.  You can earn up to 30 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ^TM per issue and credits earned through SEE can be used to help fulfill the CME requirements for the Lifelong Learning and Self-Assessment portion of the Maintenance of Certification in Anesthesiology (MOCA^®) program.

This update includes data published since the Practice Guidelines for Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography were adopted by the ASA and the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists back in 1995 and published in 1996.

These guidelines are intended for anesthesiologists and other physicians who use TEE in the perioperative setting and concentrate on the application of TEE in surgical patients and potential surgical patients in the setting of cardiac surgery, noncardiac surgery, and postoperative critical care.  They do not apply to the assessment of nonsurgical patients or to post discharge follow-up assessment of surgical patients.  The ASA and SCA Task Force believes that physician proficiency in the use of perioperative TEE is of paramount importance due to the risk of adverse outcomes resulting from incorrect interpretation.  This guideline will be published in Anesthesiology in May 2010.