Meeting Information

about This Meeting

Education Mission Statement
The 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.

Target Audience
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.

Accreditation & Designation
The Society for Pediatric Anesthesia is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Society for Pediatric Anesthesia designates this Live activity for a maximum of 8 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA)
The Society for Pediatric Anesthesia has fully complied with the legal requirements of the ADA and the rules and regulations thereof. If any participant in this educational activity is in need of accommodations, please contact SPA at (804) 282-9780 by September 25, 2015 in order to receive service.

Registration Deadline
Responses to previous SPA Annual Meeting programs have been very positive. We recommend that you confirm your registration as early as possible. The deadline for Early Registration is September 25, 2015.

Housing
The Manchester Grand Hyatt is the headquarter hotel for the SPA 29th Annual Meeting. Hotel reservations for the Manchester Grant Hyatt can be made through the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) website.

MOCA® Highlights

The Society for Pediatric Anesthesia is pleased to offer several opportunities to help fulfill your American Board of Anesthesiology Maintenance of Certification in Anesthesiology (MOCA)® Part II Patient Safety requirements at the SPA 29th Annual Meeting!

By attending the following lectures, you are eligible to receive up to four (4) credits that may be applied towards Part II: Lifelong Learning and Self-Assessment- Patient Safety requirements.

  • Transfusion Medicine – Lessons Learned From the Front
  • Coagulopathy: Measuring and Management
  • Pediatric Trauma – Damage Control Resuscitation
  • SSI: Strategies for Control in Your Practice
  • What Infections Will You Encounter in the OR?
  • Infection Prevention in Anesthesia Practice

Please plan on attending these interesting and informative sessions!!

This patient safety activity helps fulfill the patient safety CME requirement for Part II of the Maintenance of Certification in Anesthesiology Program (MOCA) of the American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA). Please consult the ABA website, www.theABA.org, for a list of all MOCA requirements.

Maintenance of Certification in Anesthesiology Program® and MOCA® are registered certification marks of The American Board of Anesthesiology®.

Meeting Highlights

Dr. GreeleyMYRON YASTER LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
William J. Greeley, MD, MBA will receive the SPA Myron Yaster Lifetime Achievement Award. Please join us as we honor Dr. Greeley’s significant service to the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia.

GUEST SPEAKERS
Philip C. Spinella, MD – “Transfusion Medicine - Lessons Learned from the Front”
David Shellington, MD – “Pediatric Trauma-Damage Control Resuscitation”
David Weber, MD, MPH – “Emerging Pathogens: Ebola and Respiratory Viruses (Enterovirus D68, MERS, Animal Influenza)”

 

 

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