TSA 2008 Annual Meeting Brochure

TSA 2008 Annual Meeting Brochure
Legislative and Scientific Program Objectives

Target Audience

This program is designed for anesthesiologists and resident anesthesiologists from Texas and surrounding states.

Educational Methods

The educational methods consist of didactic lectures, workshops and hands-on sessions with opportunities for Q&A from the audience and panel discussions.

Accreditation Statement:

Cowboy Stamp 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 Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Texas Medical Association designates this educational activity for a maximum of 35.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Texas Medical Association designates the presentations “Your Resident/Colleague Has Blood Borne Pathogen. Now What?”, “To Err is Human - Medication Errors in Anesthesia” and “Quandaries, Conundrums, Dilemmas and Predicaments: Everyday Ethical Issues and Principles” for two hours in ethics/professional responsibility education.

Program Objectives

This continuing medical education program is designed to update physicians in the specialty of anesthesiology with subspecialties in general anesthesia, pediatric anesthesia, cardiothoracic, critical care, ambulatory anesthesia, regional anesthesia and pain medicine. The program is intended to provide the most recent information on issues that will affect the day-to-day practice of the anesthesiologist as well as enhance their training and performance for the purpose of improving health delivery and enhancing patient outcomes and safety. At the conclusion of this CME activity, attendees should be able to:

Identify political issues that affect the practice of medicine including SB 1731, HB 4 and Proposition 12 and the importance of establishing a Key Contact program.
Apply the latest scientific principles relative to the management of anesthesia during surgical, therapeutic and diagnostic procedures.
Evaluate the appropriate use of anesthesia in the pediatric patient for procedural sedation, anesthesia for the pediatric patient with obstructive sleep apnea and/or URI and review the current guidelines in pediatric CPR.
Review the latest on respiratory function and the various applications of specific methods in respiratory care and airway management.
Analyze practical echocardiographic evaluation of patients in the cardiac and non-cardiac operating rooms.
Utilize the various techniques available for use in regional anesthesia including the use of ultrasound.
Explain the Texas Medical Practice Act and how it pertains to scheduled drugs and discuss the new Informed Consent and Pain Management Agreement form and its importance.
Utilize various strategies for postoperative pain management in patients previously on opioids and discuss how to avoid complications in the perioperative setting.
Discuss various ethical issues encountered by the anesthesiologist such as disclosing a bloodborne pathogen to patients, demonstrating an ethical responsibility to patients when medical errors occur and determine underlying principles and concepts important for understanding and dealing with these ethical situations.

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