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Problem Based Learning Discussions

  • Friday, February 24
  • Saturday, February 25
  • Sunday, February 26

Table # 1
Anesthetic considerations for a patient with multisystemic trauma injury and a prior Fontan for emergent exploratory laparotomy; Destiny F. Chau, MD; Thomas Murphy, MD

Table # 2
Acute Lower Extremity Paralysis in Post-Operative Spinal Fusion Adolescent with Patient-Controlled Epidural Analgesia…What To Do Now and In The Future; Virginia Gauger, MD; Prabhat Koppera

Table # 3
Laparoscopic Bilateral Pheochromocytoma Resection in an Obese Teen with von Hippel-Lindau disease; Julia Chen, MD; Nancy Glass, MD, MBA, FAAP

Table # 4
Children who Refuse Surgery: A Case-Based Discussion; Elisabeth M. Lee, MD; Amanda Lorinc, MD

Table # 5
How to do a PET/CT Scan and not Glow in the Dark; Srijaya K. Reddy, MD, Ira Todd Cohen, MD

Table # 6
Death in the PACU: Must we resuscitate?; Lynda T. Wells, MD, Jeffrey R. Barker, MD

Table # 7
“Just a Quick Add-On:” A Young Woman with Failing Fontan Physiology and Respiratory Distress Presenting for Paracentesis; Ilka Theruvath, MD, Marc Hassid, MD

Table # 8
Double Trouble: Anesthetic Management of a Pediatric Patient with Aortic Dissection and Closed Head Injury; Allison Fernandez, MBA, MD, Jamie McElrath Schwartz, MD

Table # 9
Complex airway management in a 3 year old with a foreign body in the upper airway; Arvind Chandrakantan, MD, FAAP, Bassem Asaad, MD

Table # 10
Peripheral nerve blocks in pediatric anesthesia, is it really necessary?; Hyun Kee Chung, MD, David Whiting, MD

Table # 11
The Deposed Anesthesiologist: Key Issues, Pearls, & Pitfalls; Brian Wilhelmi, MD, Robert S. Greenberg, MD

Table # 12
Decreased Amplitude and Increased Latency in OR Communication During Anterior/Posterior Spinal Fusion; Wendy B. Binstock, MD, Matthew Muffly, MD

Table # 13
Successful Inpatient Rehabilitation in a Pediatric Patient with Refractory Upper Extremity CRPS; Thomas Austin, MD, D. Andrew Franklin, MD

Table # 14
Peripheral Nerve Catheters: Are Coagulation Issues A Factor?; Kimberly Nesbitt, MD, Steve Samoya, MD

Table # 15
Applying the new 2010 PALS guidelines for the management of a patient with Long QT Syndrome; David A. Young, MD, MEd, Nicholas Carling, MD

Table # 16
Anesthetic management of a toddler with VACTERL complex and chronic renal failure for the PSARP procedure; Jennifer Dillow, MD, FAAP, Thomas J. Long, MD, FAAP

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Table # 17
A Failing Fontan with a Pacemaker and IDDM for Flat Foot Repair; Torry A. Kahute, DO, Catherine Bachman, MD

Table # 18
Newborn with Unpalliated Tricuspid Atresia for a Lumbar Meningomyelocele Repair; Koichi Yuki, MD, Vincent Collard, MD, FRCPC

Table # 19
A Neonate with a serum potassium of 12 (!!) for Bedside Emergent Peritoneal Dialysis Catheter; Amy M. Henry, MD, Susan R. Staudt, MD

Table # 20
A Patient with Sickle Cell Disease and Moyamoya Undergoing Pial Synangiosis Develops Intraoperative Electroencephalogram Slowing; Craig D. McClain MD, Hubert A. Benzon MD

Table # 21
The complexities of spinal instrumentation followed by removal /spinal stabilization in a child with severe hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and Costello syndrome; Aruna T. Nathan, MBBS, Lisa M. Montenegro, MD

Table # 22
Sedation for CT Guided biopsy in a pediatric patient with a large Anterior Mediastinal Mass: Management with dexmedetomidine; Dominic S. Carollo, MD, Sophie R. Pestieau, MD

Table # 23
The Whole Syringe! Medical and Ethical Obligations Following Inadvertent Dexmedetomidine Overdose; Martin Vogel MD, Shu-Ming Wang, MD

Table # 24
Cleft palate repair for an underweight 10-month old in an austere environment; Frank C. Stewart, MD, Quentin A. Fisher, MD

Table # 25
18-month-old with chronic pain – how prostaglandin infusions for cyanotic congenital heart disease helped in finding the diagnosis; Jessica George, MD, Sabine Kost-Byerly, MD

Table # 26
Management of sand aspiration—when is cardiopulmonary bypass indicated?; Calvin Kuan, MD, FAAP, Manchula Navaratnam, MD

Table # 27
Anesthetic Management of Tracheoesophageal Fistula in a Premature Newborn with VACTERL Association and Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome; Greg Latham, MD, Vince Hsieh, MD

Table # 28
Your epidural paralyzed my patient; Ira Landsman, MD, Stephen Hays, MD

Table # 29
Intraoperative care of an obese 7 yo male with obstructive sleep apnea and spina bifida undergoing bilateral urethral reimplantation. To Caudal, Epidural or to TAP?; Robert B. Bryskin, MD, Rebekah Leanne Wheatley, MD

Table # 30
Anesthetic Management of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and Challenges in the MRI Suite; Nina A. Guzzetta, MD, Elizabeth C. Wilson, MD

Table # 31
Anesthetic Management for Extensive Spine Surgery in a Child with Mitochondrial Disease; Diane Gordon, MD, Mohamed Mahmoud, MD

Table # 32
Cardiac arrhythmias during repair of a congenital diaphragmatic hernia in a critically ill neonate; Amy Judge, MD, Mark Twite, MB, BChir, FRCP

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Table # 33
Anesthetic Management of a Child with Severe Laryngeal Papillomatosis and Mitochondrial Disease; Michelle Rovner, MD, Melinda Bailey, MD

Table # 34
Cannot ventilate and cannot access the ETT: obstructive capnogram, hypercarbia and massive blood loss during cranial vault remodeling; Christina D. Diaz, MD, Rose Campise-Luther, MD

Table # 35
Severely obese child with acute upper airway obstruction: one size does not fit all!; Olubukola O. Nafiu, MD, FRCA, Wilson T. Chimbira, MD, FRCA

Table # 36
Challenging Presentations of CRPS: Diagnostic and Treatment Approaches; Robin Slover, MD, Mark E. Thompson, MD

Table # 37
Cardiac Arrest after Induction in a Toddler for Emergent DL and Bronchoscopy; Sarah R. Walton, MD, Thomas Latendresse, MD, CAPT, USN

Table # 38
Life after Death in the Operating Room; Dorothea A Markakis, MD, FAAP, Surendrasingh Chhabada MD

Table # 39
A general anesthetic for a child after tetrology of fallot repair in a land far far away; Ihab Ayad, M.D., Swati Patel, M.D.

Table # 40
Young Patient with Hurler’s Syndrome Needs Major Lower Extremity Orthopedic Procedures for Mobility Optimization - to CLE or not to CLE?; Jennifer L. Krupp, MD, Sonia Malhotra Shahrawat, MD

Table # 41
Spontaneous intracranial hemorrhage with resulting intracranial hypertension in a 3 mo infant presenting with massive coagulopathy; Todd Kilbaugh, MD, John McCloskey, MD

Table # 42
Perioperative Management of a Pacemaker-Dependent Patient with Emery-Dreifuss Muscular Dystrophy, Severe Airway Obstruction and Cardiomyopathy for Tracheal Decompression; Luigi Viola, MD, Laura K Diaz, MD

Table # 43
The ABC of Craniosynostosis Repair: A (air embolus), B (blood loss), C (Cardiopulmonary resuscitation); Maria Concetta Lupa, MD, Karene J. Ricketts, MD

Table # 44
Thoracoscopic repair of Tracheo-esophageal fistula in a newborn with tetralogy of Fallot and pulmonary atresia; Nicole Dobija, MD, DDS, Michael Arnold, DO

Table # 45
The child with Williams Syndrome presenting for magnetic resonance imaging or interventional cardiology; Rebecca Lintner MD, Ritu Kapoor MD

Table # 46
Incorporating an ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia program into a busy private pediatric practice, is it feasible? And you think that we can send these children home with peripheral nerve local anesthetic infusion catheters. Myth or reality?; Marjorie A. Lewis, MD, Robert B. Bryskin, MD

Table # 47
Family history of prolonged apnea in a 5 year old male with obstructive sleep apnea presenting for a tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy; Monica S. Ganatra MD, MPH, J. Lance Lichtor, MD

Table # 48
Perioperative Considerations for Infants with Single Ventricle Physiology Undergoing Laparoscopic Surgical Procedures; Steven Tosone, MD, Scott Kolesky, MD, PhD

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