Society for Airway Management (SAM) 19th Annual Scientific Meeting is organized by Society for Airway Management and would be held during Sep 15 - 18, 2016 at JW Marriott - Buckhead, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America.
Target Audience :
Anesthesiologists, emergency medicine physicians, otolaryngologists, intensivists, trauma surgeons, paramedics, certified nurse anesthetists, flight nurses and all other allied health professionals assisting with airway management should attend.
Course Description :
The Society for Airway Management (SAM) is a multidisciplinary group of health care providers from Anesthesiology, Emergency Medicine, Otolaryngology, Critical Care, and Pulmonology as well as CRNAs, paramedics and nurses.
The 19th SAM Annual Scientific Meeting and Workshop features international experts in the various fields of medicine dealing with airway management. A variety of clinical settings will be highlighted. This course will consist of plenary presentations, small group round table discussions, a Hands-On Workshop including a Patient Simulator session, and Professor Poster Rounds. Audience engagement will be encouraged with question periods. There are Scientific Abstract Exhibit sessions, oral presentations of selected abstracts and opportunities to interact with product developers, manufacturers and distributors. The theme of this year’s meeting is Innovation and Safety in Airway Management at Crossroads.
Course Objectives :
At the conclusion of the conference, the participant will be able to:
• Describe advances in airway databases and registries.
• Describe advances with regards to airway management of the obese
patient.
• Discuss new challenges with regards to airway management outside
the operating room.
• Discuss newer challenges and current options regarding preoperative
airway evaluation.
• Describe advances in the management of physiologically challenged
patients.
• Describe strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to airway
management.
• Describe current airway updates from the ASA Closed Claims Analysis.
• Describe steps for management of the patient with a bleeding airway.