ASA's Perioperative Resuscitation and Life Support Certificate, or PeRLS, offers advanced cardiac life support training designed specifically for anesthesiologists. Adapted from the American Heart Association's Advanced Life Support curricula, PeRLS offers a more anesthesia-centric solution to address perioperative crisis training. But because health care continues to evolve, the program must advance, too. To learn about recent changes, the ASA Monitor asked PeRLS Chair Michael O'Connor, MD, FCCM, FASA, about the program enhancements ASA has recently rolled out.

We have updated the content of PeRLS. PeRLS is still outcomes-focused and tailored to the perioperative setting, but the style, content, and questions have all been changed to better meet the needs of today's practitioners. For example, we are analyzing 12 PICO (population, intervention, control, and outcome) questions selected by our editorial board and outsourcing some questions to the Cochrane group for a formal grade analysis. The goal is to give learners concrete...

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