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May 1996
Volume 60 |
Number 5
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ASA NEWS
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| ASA Web Page Moves |
ASA's World Wide Web page is moving to a new site, housed at
the ASA Executive Office. Effective May 1, 1996, the new address
will be:
<http://www.ASAhq.org>.
ASA's Web site was first conceived by the Ad Hoc Committee on
Electronic Media and Information Technology (EMIT). The site was
originally designed, implemented and maintained with the invaluable
leadership of EMIT Committee member Stanley W. Stead, M.D., who
housed the information on his departmental server at the University
of California-Los Angeles. At the March meeting of the EMIT Committee,
the committee decided to update and ex-pand the site in order
to better serve both the public and ASA's membership.
The updated site will be housed and maintained at the ASA Executive
Office in Park Ridge, Illinois. The new site will be redesigned
and expanded to include a prominent patient and public education
area, and the text of ASA's educational brochures will be available
as well as links to other relevant Web pages. There will be a
second area designed primarily for ASA members and other medical
professionals. This area will contain lists and contact information
for ASA's leadership and committees, all of the practice parameters
approved by the House of Delegates, current issues of the ASA
NEWSLETTER, component society information and Annual Meeting
information. There also will be e-mail links to allow members
to send requests to ASA staff.
Future developments will include information and action alerts
from the ASA Washington Office, the text of ASA's Standards, Guidelines
and Statements, the "Calendars for Meetings" booklet
and links to component society and other anesthesia-related home
pages.
The EMIT Committee extends its gratitude to Dr. Stead for his
assistance in getting this project off the ground.
Meeting Information for AMA House of Delegates
Officials from the Society's Section Council on Anesthesiology
of the American Medical Association (AMA) would like to know the
names of the ASA members who are planning to attend the AMA's
House of Delegates meeting on June 23-27, 1996, in Chicago, Illinois.
The Section Council is open to all anesthesiologists who attend
the AMA House of Delegates meeting. The Section Council meets
to discuss resolutions and other issues of importance to anesthesiologists.
Meetings usually take place on Saturday and Monday of the AMA
House of Delegates meeting. If you are attending the House of
Delegates meeting, the Society would welcome your participation.
To be placed on the mailing list to receive information on the
Society's AMA Section Council meetings, please send your name,
address, telephone number, fax number and reason for attendance
to Ronald A. Bruns at the ASA Executive Office, 520 N. Northwest
Highway, Park Ridge, IL 60068; or fax (847) 825-1692.
1995 Refresher Course Books
Still Available
The 1995 Annual Refresher Course Lectures book is available at
a cost of $15 per copy. The Annual Refresher Course Lectures book
contains summaries of lectures that are presented at the ASA Annual
Meeting.
Anyone wishing to purchase copies should send a check payable
to the American Society of Anesthesiologists for $15 per book
to:
American Society of Anesthesiologists
Attn: Publications Department
520 N. Northwest Highway
Park Ridge, IL 60068-2573.
Seattle to Host Sedation and Analgesia Workshop
The ASA "Workshop on Sedation and Analgesia and Anesthesia
Outside the Operating Room" will be held at the Sheraton Seattle
Hotel and Towers in Seattle, Washington, on August 10-11, 1996.
This program will update the participant on sedation and analgesia
and anesthesia outside the operating room as these issues relate
to clinical practice and ASA.
The update includes practical concepts and applications as well
as the relevant pharmacology and how to use it to your advantage
or deal with it. As anesthesia services provided outside the operating
room continue to grow in variety and location, the faculty will
provide both logistic and medical strategies for dealing with this
aspect of anesthesia practice and practice management.
Nikolaus Gravenstein, M.D., is the program chair. He will speak
on "ASA Standards Outside the Operating Room." Other speakers
and their topics are:
ASA is approved by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical
Education (ACCME) to sponsor continuing medical education programs
for physicians.
ASA designates this continuing medical education program for 12
credit hours in category 1 of the Physician's Recognition Award
of the American Medical Association.
Registration fees are $300 for active members, $125 for resident
members
and $650 for nonmembers. Registration is encouraged by July 8,
1996.
A block of rooms has been reserved at the Sheraton Seattle Hotel
and Towers. A reservation form will be sent upon registration
for the meeting. The form should be returned directly to the hotel
by July 15, 1996.
Nominations Sought for Media Award
Each year, the American Society of Anesthesiologists accepts entries
for the ASA Media Award, an award given to an outstanding media
presentation that effectively informs and educates the public
about the practice of anesthesiology.
The Committee on Communications encourages members to submit or
nominate local media presentations from broadcast (television
or radio) and print (newspaper or magazine) media. The more interest
that is generated for this award will result in a greater number
of presentations on the subject of anesthesiology.
The winner receives a plaque and the opportunity to attend the
presentation ceremony during the ASA Annual Meeting. The 1996
Media Award will be presented on Sunday, October 20, at the ASA
Annual Meeting in New Orleans.
Deadline for the submission of entries is July 1 for media presentations
released between July 1, 1995, and June 30, 1996. Any entries
received after the deadline will be carried over to the next year.
Last year's Media Award recipient was CBS Health Correspondent
Howard Torman, M.D., of CBS News in New York, New York. His program,
"Patients' Fears About Anesthesia," which aired on "CBS
This Morning" on December 19, 1994, discussed patient safety,
preoperative evaluations and how patients can help to prepare
themselves to be less fearful before surgery.
Entries should be sent to Margaret G. Pratila, M.D., Chair, Committee
on Communications, American Society of Anesthesiologists, 520
N. Northwest Highway, Park Ridge, IL 60068-2573.
Last Call for "Calendars for Meetings" Listings
In January and July, ASA publishes a "Calendars for Meetings"
booklet, which serves as an aid to all ASA members by providing
information about continuing education courses, seminars and meetings
in anesthesiology over the next five years. The booklet further
helps to provide department chairs, program directors and component
society officers with information that could prevent overlaps
and conflicts in meeting schedules.
The next edition of "Calendars for Meetings" will be
distributed with the July 1996 ASA NEWSLETTER. The deadline for
submissions for the booklet is June 1, 1996. Entries must be submitted
in writing and received at the ASA Executive Office by the deadline.
Submissions will not be taken by telephone.
For further information or to obtain submission forms, contact
the ASA Executive Office, Communications Department, 520 N. Northwest
Highway, Park Ridge, IL 60068-2573, or call (847) 825-5586.
Chicago Refresher Course Scheduled in September
- "Reforming Health Care" and "Alternative Airway
Techniques" are among the 20 lectures scheduled this fall
for the Regional Refresher Course in Chicago, Illinois. The
program will be held at the Westin Hotel Chicago on September
7-8, 1996.
- Henry Rosenberg, M.D., is the program chair. The faculty and
their topics are:
- Solomon Aronson, M.D., "Evolving Strategies for Management
of the Cardiac Patient During Surgery: Application of Perioperative
Transesophageal Echocardiography" and "Perioperative
Renal Dysfunction: What's New, What's Old and What's Controversial";
- Sorin J. Brull, M.D., "Monitoring of Neuromuscular Block:
Clinical Applications" and "Clinical Applications
of Pre-emptive Analgesia";
- Neal H. Cohen, M.D., "Reforming Health Care" and
"Perioperative Management of the Patient With Asthma";
- Kenneth Drasner, M.D., "Local Anesthetic Neurotoxicity:
Current Problems, Future Solutions" and "Delayed Complications
of Central Neuraxial Blockade";
- Steven M. Frank, M.D., "Clinical Importance of Body Temperature
in the Perioperative Period" and "Does Outcome Differ
With a Regional Versus General Anesthesia?";
- Steven C. Hall, M.D., "Anesthetic Emergencies in Infants
and Children" and "The Difficult Pediatric Airway";
- David R. Larach, M.D., "Review of Cardiovascular Drug
Therapy" and "An Anesthesiologist's Guide to Interpreting
a Cardiology Evaluation";
- J. Jeevendra Martyn, M.B., "Acetylcholine Receptor Function
and Pharmacology: Importance to the Anesthesiologist" and
"Pediatric Clinical Pharmacology";
- Jonathan L. Parmet, M.D., "Anesthetic and Perioperative
Problems in Total Knee Arthroplasty" and "Alternative
Airway Techniques"; and
- Steven L. Shafer, M.D., "Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamic
Considerations in Drug Development" and "Clinical
Pharmacology of Remifentanil."
Registrants are asked to choose one lecture of the two offered
in each time slot. Admission will be by ticket only. Tickets will
be enclosed in the registration packets distributed at the meeting.
ASA is approved by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical
Education (ACCME) to sponsor continuing medical education programs
for physicians.
ASA designates this continuing medical education program for 10
credit hours in category 1 of the Physician's Recognition Award
of the American Medical Association.
Registration is suggested by August 6, 1996. Registration fees
are $250 for ASA active members, $125 for resident members and
$600 for nonmembers.
A block of rooms has been reserved at the Westin Hotel Chicago.
This location places attendees within walking distance of museums,
restaurants, galleries, theaters and shopping. A room reservation
form will be sent upon registration for the meeting. The form
should be returned directly to the hotel by August 16, 1996.
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