General Information

Education Mission Statement
The SPA 37th 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.

Scope & Types of Activities
The program brings together experts from clinical and basic science disciplines related to pediatric medicine, anesthesia, and surgery. General topic areas include anatomy, pathophysiology, anesthetic pharmacology, sedation, pain management, patient safety, and child advocacy. We will also discuss practice and career management issues. The presentation format is varied, and includes lectures, panel discussions and problem-based learning discussions.

Significant attendee involvement and feedback are encouraged in all aspects of the program, and will be facilitated by the use of real time computerized audience polling as well as sessions where the audience directly participates in case discussions. Program content is, in fact, the direct result of membership input and extensive audience polling at prior meetings.

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 and 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 7.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.

Additional CME: The MOCA Simulation @ SPA Course provides an additional 7.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. The WELI Workshop add an additional 3.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. And the Wake Up Safe workshop provides 2.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.

Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity(s).

Meeting Attendance & CME Credits
The meeting format will be a hybrid of in-person and virtual. You can choose to attend in-person in San Francisco or virtually from your home or office.  Both types of attendees will have access to the live sessions, as well as the recorded sessions on-demand following the meeting.  

We will not accept registrations after the completion of the meeting program on October 13, 2023. All attendees, whether viewing the sessions in-person or virtually, will have 90 days after the end of the live meeting to complete the online evaluation and claim your CME credits. Questions? Please email us at spa@societyhq.com.

Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest
SPA requires faculty, planners, managers and other individuals who are in a position to control the content of this activity to disclose any real or apparent conflict of interest (COI) they may have as related to the content of this activity. All identified COI are thoroughly vetted and resolved according to ACCME policy. The existence or absence of COI for everyone in a position to control content will be disclosed to participants prior to the start of each activity.  

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