27th Annual UC Davis Anesthesiology Update
In-Person Event
Nov 11 - 13, 2016
Monterey, California, USA
OVERVIEW
The delegates are often think of hospitals as a bastion of safety where the sick are healed and disease is eradicated. Unfortunately, mounting evidence suggests that hundreds of thousands of patients are being harmed each year while receiving treatment in hospitals. Examples of preventable harm include: adverse drug reactions, surgical site infections, pressure sores, blood clots, sepsis and inpatient falls. Patient safety is therefore of paramount importance.
This is a global public health phenomenon, which does not discriminate based on a country's level of development. In the United States the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), a branch of the Department of Health and Human Services, is encouraging improvement in patient safety by linking payments to hospitals performance. Constructive improvements will require a change in hospital philosophy that will create a culture of learning and open communication between all healthcare professionals.
The goal of this year is to discuss some ideas that may be useful to address situations where there is clearly a "gap" in the way a system currently operates and the way it could operate more effectively and safely through the dissemination of knowledge.
Topics that will be covered this year include: point of care ultrasound, the advantages of using ultrasound when performing regional anesthesia, adverse events associated with opioid analgesics, geriatric anesthesia, anesthesia machines and equipment failure, topics in patient safety and team management, applications of cardiac ultrasound, as well as topics in pediatric anesthesia, neuro-anesthesia, obstetrical anesthesia and new drug updates.
This year’s conference will provide practitioners with evidence based methods and strategies to assist them in providing better treatment options for their patients. Faculty presenting and interacting with participants at this activity have been selected on the basis of their comprehensive clinical experience and academic excellence.
This is a global public health phenomenon, which does not discriminate based on a country's level of development. In the United States the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), a branch of the Department of Health and Human Services, is encouraging improvement in patient safety by linking payments to hospitals performance. Constructive improvements will require a change in hospital philosophy that will create a culture of learning and open communication between all healthcare professionals.
The goal of this year is to discuss some ideas that may be useful to address situations where there is clearly a "gap" in the way a system currently operates and the way it could operate more effectively and safely through the dissemination of knowledge.
Topics that will be covered this year include: point of care ultrasound, the advantages of using ultrasound when performing regional anesthesia, adverse events associated with opioid analgesics, geriatric anesthesia, anesthesia machines and equipment failure, topics in patient safety and team management, applications of cardiac ultrasound, as well as topics in pediatric anesthesia, neuro-anesthesia, obstetrical anesthesia and new drug updates.
This year’s conference will provide practitioners with evidence based methods and strategies to assist them in providing better treatment options for their patients. Faculty presenting and interacting with participants at this activity have been selected on the basis of their comprehensive clinical experience and academic excellence.
KEY DATES
11 Nov, 2016
Event Start Date
13 Nov, 2016
Event End Date
SPECIALITIES
AnesthesiologyPain MedicineAnesthesia and Intensive CareSUGGESTED HOTELS
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