January 1999
Volume 63 |
Number 1
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| Journal Symposium
Announcement and Call for Abstracts |
The 1999 Anesthesiology journal-sponsored symposium at
the ASA Annual Meeting in Dallas, Texas, October 9-13, is titled:
"New Concepts in Lung Injury and Repair in the Critically Ill."
The moderators will be David O. Warner, M.D., Mayo Clinic, and
Roger A. Johns, M.D., University of Virginia.
Lung inflammation plays a key role in the pathophysiology of
many diseases managed by the perioperative physician, including
asthma, aspiration injury, infectious processes and the acute
respiratory distress syndrome. Supportive therapies such as mechanical
ventilation themselves may contribute to inflammation and injury.
Recent advances in the understanding of lung inflammatory processes
hold promise in the prevention and treatment of such injuries.
This symposium will provide an overview of these concepts for
the clinician and encourage interaction among investigators in
the field.
Both invited lectures and a poster-discussion section featuring
appropriate abstracts will be presented. The success of this symposium
will be determined, in part, by the quality of the submitted abstracts
that are available for discussion. Therefore, the journal and
the moderators would like to invite and encourage individuals
working in the relevant areas to submit their work for consideration.
Works in the following areas would be appropriate for the symposium:
- Basic mechanisms of lung injury, inflammation and repair
- Effects of lung injury and inflammation on gas ex-change
- Effects of supportive therapies such as mechanical ventilation
and nitric oxide on lung inflammation and injury
- Therapeutic modulation of lung inflammation
Abstracts should be submitted via the regular ASA Annual Meeting
procedures. All submitted abstracts will undergo review by the
established committees of ASA. However, in addition, the symposium
moderators will be reviewing all submitted papers for their
possible suitability for presentation during the poster-discussion
period.
The selection process for the symposium is independent of the
overall meeting selection. Failure to be selected for the symposium
does not jeopardize your chances of general acceptance.
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