Education Mission Statement
The SPA 38th Annual Meeting will focus on topics of interest to those who provide anesthesia, sedation, pain management, and critical care services to infants and children. The overall goals for attendees of the program are to reinforce and enhance their existing fund of knowledge, and to introduce them to new and state-of-the-art techniques and information that affect their practice and improve the perioperative/critical care of pediatric patients.
Scope & Types of Activities
The program brings together experts from clinical and basic science disciplines related to pediatric medicine, anesthesia, and surgery. General topic areas include anatomy, pathophysiology, anesthetic pharmacology, sedation, pain management, patient safety, and child advocacy. We will also discuss practice and career management issues. The presentation format is varied, and includes lectures, panel discussions and problem-based learning discussions.
Significant attendee involvement and feedback are encouraged in all aspects of the program, and will be facilitated by the use of real time computerized audience polling as well as sessions where the audience directly participates in case discussions. Program content is, in fact, the direct result of membership input and extensive audience polling at prior meetings.
This program is intended for anesthesiologists and other practitioners who care for children in their practice of anesthesiology and/or critical care. It is also intended for clinical and basic science researchers whose areas of investigation relate to pediatric anesthesia.
+ Topics:
Addressing Pain Beyond the PACU- Methadone as an Innovative Analgesic Approach for Outpatient Surgery.pdf
Advancing Tonsil and Adenoid Surgery- Best Practices and Innovations.pdf
Award Acceptance PEDx Talk- Lessons in Leadership – Important Things I Learned.pdf
Balancing Fluid and Blood in Babies.pdf
Cannabinoids in the Pediatric Perioperative Setting- Who Are These Patients and How Can We Best Care for Them.pdf
CAR T- Innovative Immunotherapy.pdf
Effective Team Functioning in the Operating Room- Do We Need Specialized Surgeon-Anesthesiologist.pdf
Evolution of Airway Surgery from a Surgeon’s Perspective.pdf
Kids and the Undeniable Exciting Pull of Magnets- A Story of Foreign Body Complications.pdf
Lungs in Motion- Optimizing Neonatal Ventilation During Transport and in the Operating Rooms.pdf
Mixed Opioid Agonists and Opioid Antagonists in the Perioperative Period.pdf
Navigating the Path of Opioid Stewardship.pdf
October 18 Part 1.mp4
October 18 Part 2.mp4
SESSION I Keynote.mp4
SESSION I Keynote.pdf
SESSION II Exploring Perioperative Opioid and Cannabinoid Applications.mp4
SESSION III Breathing New Life Advances in Airway Surgeries.mp4
SESSION IV Myron Yaster Lifetime Achievement Award Presentation – to Linda J. Mason, MD.mp4
SESSION V Neonatal Anesthesia Innovations, Challenges, and Best Practices.mp4
SESSION VI PEDx.mp4
SPA 38th Annual Meeting – Printable Program.pdf
The ABCs of BPD.pdf
The Highs and Lows of Neonatal Blood Pressure Management.pdf
The Truth Hurts- Recognition and Reporting of Medical Child Abuse in the Perioperative Environment.pdf
Tips for Trachs.pdf
Under Pressure- Sepsis Solutions for the Pediatric Anesthesiologist.pdf