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December 1998
Volume 62 |
Number 12
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ASA NEWS
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| Phoenix Regional
Refresher Course |
"Anesthesia Report Cards" and "What Are the Costs of Delivering
Surgery and Anesthesia Care?" are two of the 20 lectures offered
at the Regional Refresher Course to be held in Phoenix, Arizona.
The program will be held on Saturday and Sunday, January 23-24,
1999, at the Hyatt Regency Phoenix.
All lectures will relate to cardiovascular disease and outcome
and economics. Lee A. Fleisher, M.D., is the program chair. He
will speak on "Preoperative Evaluation of the Patient With Vascular
Disease" and "Risk of Anesthesia: How Far Have We Come and Where
Are We Going?" The other faculty and their topics are:
- Jeffrey S. Balser, M.D., Ph.D., "Perioperative Dysrhythmia"
and "Anesthetic Management of the Patient With a Pacemaker";
- Paul G. Barash, M.D., "Anesthesia Report Cards" and "Anesthetic
Management of the Patient With Valvular Heart Disease";
- Michelle Y. Braunfeld, M.D., "Anesthesia for Liver Transplantation";
- Michael K. Cahalan, M.D., "Physiologic Approach to the Patient
With Congenital Heart Disease" and "Current Applications and
Cost-Effectiveness of Transesophageal Echocardiography";
- James A. DiNardo, M.D., "Update on Ventricular Assist Devices
as a Bridge to Cardiac Transplantation";
- Alex Macario, M.D., "What Are the Costs of Delivering Surgery
and Anesthesia Care?" and "How Can Anesthesiologists Improve
the Value of Anesthesia Service?";
- Dennis T. Mangano, M.D., Ph.D., "Perioperative Myocardial
Ischemia and Infarction" and "Anti-ischemic Therapy in the Perioperative
Period";
- Charles W. Otto, M.D., "Current Concepts in CPR";
- Michael F. Roizen, M.D., "Anesthesia for Abdominal Aortic
Surgery" and "How Old Are You Really?";
- Joyce A. Wahr, M.D., "Recent Advances in Blood Substitutes"
and "Hematologic Problems During the Perioperative Period."
A faculty discussion of cardiac case presentations will end
Saturday's program.
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
14 credit hours in category 1 of the Physician's Recognition Award
of the American Medical Association. A staggered lecture schedule
allows attendees to earn more credit hours than under the former
schedule.
Registration is suggested by December 20, 1998. Registration
fees are $250 for ASA active members, $125 for resident members
and $600 for nonmembers. The course lecture book is an additional
$25. Meeting registrants will be able to download the abstracts
from ASA's Web site two weeks before the meeting at no charge.
A block of rooms has been reserved at the Hyatt Regency Phoenix.
A room reservation form will be sent upon registration for the
meeting. The form should be returned directly to the hotel by
January 2, 1999.
The hotel is located at 122 North Second Street in downtown Phoenix.
1999 Membership Dues
Membership dues for 1999 will be as follows:
| Active |
$350.00 |
| Affiliate |
$175.00 |
| Resident |
$ 25.00 |
| Medical Student |
$10.00 |
The 1999 dues represent no increase since 1991.
This information is being provided for those who wish to pay
their membership fees in December. The dues statement reflecting
the above will be mailed to the ASA membership in January. Dues
payments should be deductible by members as ordinary and necessary
business expenses. The 1993 federal tax law, however, eliminated
the deductibility of lobbying expenses; in the case of membership
dues paid to a section 501(c)(6) organization such as ASA, this
means the "business expense" deduction will be denied to the extent
membership dues are spent by the organization on lobbying.
At the time of distributing dues notices for the coming year, ASA
is required (in order to avoid paying a special tax) to provide
members with an estimate of what the non-deductible lobbying percentage
will be for that year. ASA estimates that the percentage of 1999
membership dues to be used for lobbying will be 18 percent, and
this advice will be included in the 1999 dues notice. You should
thus deduct only 82 percent of the respective dues amounts shown
above as a business expense; e.g., in the case of an active member,
$287 will be deductible. The IRS has advised that this is true whether
you pay your 1999 dues before or after January 1.
1999 PBLD Program - Open Call for Cases
Meg A. Rosenblatt, M.D.
Committee on Problem-Based Learning Discussions
More than 1,000 attendees participated in one or several of
the 110 Problem-Based Learning Discussions (PBLD) that were held
throughout the five days of the ASA Annual Meeting in Orlando,
Florida. In an effort to maintain the vitality and relevance of
the PBLD Program, the ASA PBLD Committee announced that there
will again be an open selection process to choose several of the
1999 PBLD cases.
Any member of ASA is invited to submit a PBLD case to the committee
for review and possible selection for the 1999 ASA Annual Meeting.
We are looking for controversial topics, compelling true cases
and areas where there are content gaps in the current program,
including transplant anesthesia, trauma anesthesia, critical care
medicine, medical-legal issues and education in anesthesiology.
All submissions must conform to the guidelines for PBLD cases,
as described in the 1998 PBLD Case Book. These include title,
objectives, case, model case discussion and references. Cases
will be evaluated for relevance, enigma, content, conformity to
guidelines and clarity of presentation.
Please send cases to Meg A. Rosenblatt, M.D., Mount Sinai Medical
Center, Box 1010, Department of Anesthesiology, 1 Gustave L. Levy
Place, New York, New York 10029-6574. Please include a telephone
number or e-mail address so that the receipt can be confirmed.
Deadline for submission of PBLD cases is
January 31, 1999.
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