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July 1999
Volume 63
Number 7
   
1999 Panels and Workshops

The 1999 ASA Annual Meeting Panels and Workshops Program will definitely offer something for everyone. All panels and workshops will be held in the Dallas Convention Center, Hyatt Regency Dallas and the Adam's Mark Hotels (refer to the Annual Meeting Program book for exact locations).

The panels program for 1999 features 41 panels in the following categories:

  • How Well Does the Elderly Nervous System Survive Surgery?
  • Conscious Sedation: Strategies for Effective Program Implementation
  • Non-neurosurgical Complications of Neurosurgery
  • Perioperative Management of the High Risk Cardiac Patient: Where Should We Focus Our Attention and Money?
  • How Does That Newfangled Monitor Work?
  • Physician Well-Being
  • Intraoperative Organ Preservation
  • Anesthetic Considerations for Innovative Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgical Procedures
  • Current Concepts in Thoracic Anesthesia
  • Pediatric Emergencies
  • O.R. Management Issues
  • Latex Allergy
  • Fast-Tracking: The Changing Role of PACU in Ambulatory Surgery
  • Anesthesiologists' Survival Guide to Contracts
  • Perspectives on Research Relationships Between Anesthesiology and Industry
  • Operating Room Management
  • Anesthesia for the Patient With Cancer
  • Anesthesia for the High-Risk Parturient
  • Perioperative Autologous Donation Versus Intraoperative Normovolemic Hemodilution
  • Conflict and Communication
  • Update and Controversies in Local Anesthetics
  • Clinical Controversies in Outpatient Anesthesia
  • Surviving Accreditation
  • History
  • O.R. Hazards
  • Pediatric Anesthesia in the Community Hospital
  • Special Program on Component Society Issues
  • FAER Panel on Continuing Medical Education - Meeting the Needs of the Practicing Anesthesiologist
  • The Perils of Publishing or What Do Those Editors Want, Anyway? Thoughts From the Editors of Anesthesiology
  • Telecommunications in Patient Care
  • Value-Based Anesthesia
  • Mechanisms Underlying General Anesthesia and Altered States of Consciousness
  • Ideas for Office-Based Anesthesia
  • Anesthesia Departments as Departments of Perioperative Medicine: Is This Realistic in Today's Economy? A Debate
  • Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging, X-Ray Crystallography and Electron Diffraction
  • Interactive TEE Case Discussions
  • Effects of Anesthetics on Pulmonary Vascular and Airway Smooth Muscle: Integrative and Cellular Mechanisms
  • Noninvasive, Nonpharmacologic Approaches to Caring for the Critically Ill Patient
  • Fires in the Operating Room: New Approaches
  • Managing the Patient With Respiratory Failure: Can We Really Alter Outcome?
  • Cytokines, Anesthesia and Inflammation

There will also be nine separate workshops at this year's meeting. They are as follows:

  • Workshop on Adult Fiberoptic Laryngoscopy
  • Workshop on Pediatric Fiberoptic Laryngoscopy
  • Workshop on Advanced Fiberoptic Laryngoscopy
  • Workshop on the Difficult Airway
  • Workshop on Communications: Media and Speech Training
  • Workshop on Peripheral Nerve Blocks
  • Workshop on Transesophageal Echocardiography
  • Workshop on Considerations in Thoracic Anesthesia
  • Workshop on Computing



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