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Legislative and Scientific
Program Objectives

Target Audience

This program is designed for anesthesiologists and resident anesthesiologists who are members of the Texas Society of Anesthesiologists and their colleagues in the surrounding states.

Educational Methods

The educational methods will consist of didactic lectures, film or slide presentations, workshops and hands-on sessions with opportunities for questions from the audience and a panel discussion.

Accreditation

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint sponsorship of Texas Medical Association and Texas Society of Anesthesiologists. The Texas Medical Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Texas Medical Association designates this continuing medical education activity for a maximum of 22 hours in category 1 towards the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.

Texas Medical Association has designated the presentations "Patients in Pain: Lessons From a Federal Judge" and "The Virtue of Humility in Medical Practice: How to Cope with Medical Errors" for two hours in ethics/professional responsibility education.

Legislative Program Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

  • Discuss pending Federal Legislation, court rulings and regulations and their impact on patient care.
  • Discuss and be informed on 2003 State Legislation and its impact on health issues facing the citizens of Texas.

Scientific Program Objectives

Upon completion of this program, participants should be able to:

  • Update others on the pathophysiology of sleep apnea in adults and children and perioperative management of adult and pediatric patients with sleep apnea, including current guidelines and recommendations.

  • Recognize the pathogenesis of acute renal failure (ARF) and review current approaches for ARF prevention and management.

  • Discuss the resources available and their value in controlling depth of anesthesia and sedation.

  • Analyze the hazards of working in the MRI environment and how to provide a safe anesthetic in this challenging environment.

  • Review the anesthetic implications for a patient undergoing laparoscopic gastric bypass.

  • Review the potential role of COX-specific inhibitors in acute pain management and discuss the differences between COX-specific inhibitors.

  • Review the current status of electronic records in anesthesiology and to provide the registrant with a balanced overview (i.e., the Ying and Yang) of electronic anesthesia records.

  • Determine under what moral, ethical and/or legal situations a duty to treat pain exists.

  • Explore applications for the virtue of humility to medical encounters and discuss coping strategies for medical error, if one is committed.

  • Review the pathophysiology of perioperative myocardial ischemia and develop a conceptual basis and format for managing patients with coronary artery disease with and without congestive failure.

  • Discuss the indications, advantages and limitations of TEE monitoring for non-cardiac cases.

  • Observe simulated anesthetic complications and be trained in these scenarios.

  • Evaluate reports from your billing services, staffing levels and if financial support is needed as well as evaluation of clinical operations.

  • Demonstrate different regional anesthetic techniques for the extremities so the clinical anesthesiologists can gain the expertise.

  • Promote the use of regional anesthesia for surgery and postoperative pain control and discuss the potential complications and how to avoid them so that regional anesthesia can be done safely both for inpatients and outpatients.

  • Discuss the implications of terrorism for an anesthesiologist.

  • Define the role of opioids in the treatment of non-malignant pain syndromes and clarify the lesser-known side effects of long-term opioid therapy.

  • Review the anesthetic techniques for emergent obstetric procedures.

  • Analyze current ASA issues.

  • Review the current use of drugs affecting the renin-angiotensin system in antihypertensive therapy, evaluate the recent reports of cardiovascular instability under anesthesia in a patient maintained on these drugs and discuss the new peptide vasoconstrictors affecting the arginine-vasopressin system being developed as an alternative to standard adrenergic stimulants.

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