Relevant Topics in Anesthesia is organized by Northwest Anesthesia Seminars (NWAS) and will be held during May 21 - 24, 2018 at Hilton Nashville Downtown, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America.
The target audience for this medical event is physicians, certified registered nurse anesthetists, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, registered nurses and other medical care providers. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 20 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.
Course description :
• Presentations are designed to facilitate the physician, nurse specialist, and other providers
maintaining skills of the same kind to review and update knowledge and abilities in one or
more of these areas vital to the practicing professional:
• Possess the scientific background for clinical practice.
• Maintain state-of-the-art knowledge of not only the specialty, but also of all additional related
disciplines which may impact it.
• Maintain an up-to-the-minute armamentarium of knowledge and skills for the selection and
use of complex equipment, pharmacological agents, and procedures necessary for the
provision of quality patient care.
• Manage self and colleagues to function toward common goals in the clinical setting, the clinical
and educational institutions, and the community in which the practice resides.
• Serve as an expert in matters involving health care delivery; serve as an informed manager of
clinical and educational services provided, including the acquisition and distribution of
resources necessary in meeting professional goals.
• Provide assistance with and support of other service providers, departments, institutions, and
organizations dependent upon the professional expertise of the practitioner.
Conference Objectives are :
• At the conclusion of this activity, the participant will be able to:
• Apply the pertinent physical and behavioral sciences - to include but not be limited to
advanced anatomy and physiology, pathophysiology, chemistry, physics, psychology, and
social sciences - as they impact and are affected by the planning, delivery, and monitoring of
anesthesia and related services inherent in the anesthesia professions.
• Explain the selection, dosing considerations with methods of administration, safe use, and
contraindications and precautions of presented pharmacological agents through the
understanding of their physico-chemical properties, pharmacokinetics and
pharmacodynamics, updated uses, and more recently developed additional, related, and
similar drugs.
• Outline comprehensive management plans for the group of patients discussed, whether
related in age, physical status, cultural background, invasive procedure, anesthetic or analgesic
requirements, clinical setting, adverse reactions, and/or goals of care.
• Apply the principles of safety and asepsis in the performance of anesthetic procedures and
administrations, equipment use, and other applications encountered during the provision of
anesthesia and analgesia whether in the surgical unit, the labor and delivery suite, the pain
management clinic, or other more remote location of anesthetizing services.
• Incorporate the appropriate recommendations and/or requirements of pertinent external
organizations, institutions, and professional groups - recognized as serving as the authority for
and/or holding the responsibility to compile and approve such tenets - in the provision of
anesthesia and related services, whether medical, legal, philosophical, ethical, or health care
management standards.
• Apply the new techniques in the clinical setting of the participant.