2004 Annual Meeting

• 2004 House of Delegates Summary
• 2005 to Be Year of Teamwork
• Join the Party and Celebrate ASA's 100th Birthday
• New Orleans, or Is It Really ‘The Big Easy’?
• The Reason We Exist

2005 Annual Meeting

• 2004 Distinguished Service Award: William D. Owens, M.D.
• 2005 Annual Meeting Adds More Learning Tracks
• 2005 Annual Meeting in Atlanta Exceeds Expectations in Wake of Hurricane Katrina
• 2005 Annual Meeting: Letting the Good Times Roll in New Orleans
• 2005 Annual Meeting Plenary Session
• 2005 Annual Meeting Update: What's New in New Orleans
• 2005 Art Exhibit a ‘Centennial Celebration’
• 2005 ASA Clinical Forum Program: Your Response Required!
• 2005 ASA Scientific Papers: Call for Abstracts
• 2005 Award for Excellence in Research: David S. Warner, M.D.
• 2005 Breakfast Panels: Updates From Nine Subspecialties
• A House United, and Words Better Left Unsaid
• Annual Meeting Learning Tracks Announced: Cardiac and Neuro
• Anesthesia History Association Resident Essay Contest
• ASA Annual Meeting — Elections, Resolutions, Research and Fun
• FAER Activities at the 2005 ASA Annual Meeting
• ASA Placement Service
• Call for Abstracts on Intraoperative Awareness
• Call For Candidates for Third Annual Presidential Scholar Award
• Changes to Annual Meeting Program Will Be Minimal
• Discuss Medically Challenging Cases at 2005 Annual Meeting
• FAER Centennial Activities During 2005 Annual Meeting
• FAER Honorary Research Lecture
• House of Delegates to Convene October 23
• Lewis H. Wright Memorial Lecture
• Nominations for Distinguished Service Award
• Nominations Sought for Award for Excellence in Research
• Panel Pandemonium
• PBLD 2005: More Cases and More New Offerings Than Ever!
• Plans Under Way for 2005 ASA Annal Meeting In New Orleans
• Refresher Courses for 2005: Big Variety in the Big Easy
• Regulations Governing Assignment of Tickets
• Residents Invited to Enter Research Essay Contest
• Scientific and Educational Exhibit Award Winners Announced
• Scientific and Educational Exhibits for 2005: Don’t Miss These ‘Challenging’ Cases
• Scientific Papers Sessions: Best and Brightest in Anesthesiology Research
• Special Airline Arrangements, Car Rentals Offered
• Technical Exhibit Program: Come to Sunday's Reception

2006 Annual Meeting

• 2006 PBLD Program — Open Call for Case Submissions

Academic Anesthesiology

• Academic or Private-Practice Anesthesiology Groups: You Still Support Surgical Training Programs!
• Association of Anesthesiology Program Directors (AAPD) & Society of Academic Anesthesiology Chairs (SAAC)
• AUA: Always a Learning Experience
• Incentive Programs for Academics … or … Be Careful What You Wish For
• Mentoring Faculty and Residents: The Role of Departments in Developing Strong Relationships in Academic Careers
• Not What You Might Expect: A Resident’s Perspective on the AUA Annual Meeting
• Society for Education in Anesthesia: 20 Years and Going Strong
• The Making of a Physician Scientist: It Starts With Mentoring

Accreditation

ACE Program

Administrative Update

• AANA-ASA Dialogues: Detente in Chicago
• ASA Moves Into Its Second Hundred Years With Increasing Membership, Service and Value
• A House United, and Words Better Left Unsaid
• A ‘Word’ of Difference
• Anesthesia Is NOT Safe
• Another Side of Awareness
• Division of Scientific Affairs: ASA’s CME Home
• Final Thoughts
• Fiscally Sound ASA Looks Forward to Further Growth
• Honoring the Heroes Who Weathered the Storm
• Katrina and Rita: Reflections on The Winds of Change … Literally!
• Pay for Performance: More Opportunity Than Threat
• Taking Control of Our Future

Ambulatory Anesthesia

American Association of Nurse Anesthetists

• AANA-ASA Dialogues: Detente in Chicago
• ASA/AANA January 2005 Meeting Update: Progress Made as Candid Discussions Continue

American Board of Anesthesiology

• 2006 ABA Examination Dates
• 31st National In-Training Exam Set for July 9, 2005
• ABA Subspecialty Certification Exam in Critical Care Medicine and Pain Medicine
• ABA Subspecialty Recertification Exam in Critical Care Medicine and Pain Medicine
• Are You Board-Certified? Want to Stay That Way? Time to Pay Attention to MOCA!
• ASA Solicits ABA Directorate Nominations
• Subspecialty Certification Examinations in Critical Care Medicine and Pain Medicine

American Medical Association

• AMA Meeting to Include Issues for Section Council
• ASA’s Delegation to the American Medical Association: A Tradition of Services

American Society of Anesthesiologists

• 13 Candidates Announce for Elected Office
• 2004 Distinguished Service Award: William D. Owens, M.D.
• 2004 House of Delegates Summary
• 2005 Annual Meeting in Atlanta Exceeds Expectations in Wake of Hurricane Katrina
• 2005 Award for Excellence in Research: David S. Warner, M.D.
• 2005 Officers' Profiles: The Leaders of Our Society
• 2005 Workshop on Transesophageal Echocardiography
• 2006 Membership Dues Announced
• ASA Puts Its House in Order:History of ASA Headquarters
• At a Glance
• Announcing 2005 Meeting Dates for ASA Governing Bodies
• Announcement of Candidates for Elected Office
• Board of Directors Annual Meeting Summary
• Board of Directors Interim Meeting Summary
• Call For Candidates for Third Annual Presidential Scholar Award
• House of Delegates to Convene October 23
• Join the Party and Celebrate ASA's 100th Birthday
• Medicine and Government Regulation — the Times, They Have Been Changing
• Open Forum on Sleep Apnea
• President Addresses Locked Carts and Audible Alarms
• So You Want to Run for ASA Office
• The Rovenstine Lectureship
• Zhiyi Zuo, M.D., Ph.D. — 2005 ASA Presidential Scholar

Anesthesia Awareness

• Another Side of Awareness
• Commentary — Awareness Monitoring: Some Personal Opinions
• Open Forum on Intraoperative Awareness and Monitoring

Anesthesia Care Team

• Committee on Anesthesia Care Team: A Committee for All

Anesthesia Foundation

• Anesthesia Foundation: Aiding Anesthesiology Residents Since 1956
• The Anesthesia Foundation

Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation

• A Historical Review of the Origin and Contributions of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation
• Anesthesia, Surgery and Long-Term Outcomes

Anesthesia Technology

• Perioperative Connection: A Look at the Computerized Anesthesia Record
• Revenge of the Nerds: STA Comes of Age

Anesthesiologist Assistants

Anesthesiology in the News

• Anesthesia’s Role in the Civil War
• Awareness Awareness on the Rise
• Bloodless Medicine a No-Lose Situation?
• Doc Day Plugged
• Early Labor and Epidurals
• Ex-Cox-2 Users Warned
• Forbes on Awareness Issue: The Business and the Science
• Intraoperative Awareness
• Make No Mistake: Computers Avoid Medication Errors
• Medicaid Concerns in Michigan
• Members — Keep Us in Mind!
• Music in the O.R.
• NBC Devotes Week to Pain
• Patient Safety
• Saving Lives in the Desert
• SCIP
• Studies
• Sweet New Home in Alabama
• Tougher Office Regulations in Nevada
• Unifying Electronic Health Records
• Video Game Reduces Anxiety

ASA Centennial

• 2005 Art Exhibit a ‘Centennial Celebration’
• 2006 Conference on Practice Management: Register Now!
• ASA Moves Into Its Second Hundred Years With Increasing Membership, Service and Value
• A Bearable Way to Spend Doctors Day: A Poster Retrospective
• A Centurion Arrives — Why Our Past May Help to Mold Our Future
• A Day in the Life: 1905
• A Day in the LIfe: 1955
• A Day in the Life: 2005
• A Historical Review of the Origin and Contributions of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation
• A History of the Distinguished Service Award
• A Short History of Paul Wood’s Anesthesia Collection: The Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology
• Anesthesiology’s Choices for the Next Century
• ASA Puts Its House in Order:History of ASA Headquarters
• Certification in Anesthesiology Process: Views From the Trenches
• From the Headlines
• From There to Modernity: A Millennium of Progress in a Century
• History of FAER: An Investment in the Future
• Join the Party and Celebrate ASA's 100th Birthday
• Medicine and Government Regulation — the Times, They Have Been Changing
• Remembering Our Past: A Look at the Resident Component
• Sometimes in Life There Are No Second Chances: Order Tickets to ASA Centennial Gala Dinner and Dessert Reception Today!
• The Anesthesia Foundation
• The Big One
• The Long Island Society of Anesthetists
• The Rovenstine Lectureship
• Then and Now: The Women of ASA
• Way to Go, ASA! ASA Enters Its Second 100 Years of Professional Commitment to Anesthesia Care and Patient Safety With a New All-Time Membership Record

ASA Consultation Program

ASA News

• 13 Candidates Announce for Elected Office
• 2005 Workshop on Transesophageal Echocardiography
• 2006 CBA Program
• 2006 Membership Dues Announced
• ACC/AHA Guideline Update for Perioperative Cardiovascular Evaluation for Noncardiac Surgery
• AMA Meeting to Include Issues for Section Council
• Announcing 2005 Meeting Dates for ASA Governing Bodies
• Announcement of Candidates for Elected Office
• Call for Candidates for Third Annual Presidential Scholar Award
• Changes to Annual Meeting Program Will Be Minimal
• Discuss Medically Challenging Cases at 2005 Annual Meeting
• Legendary Entertainer Jerry Lewis in Raleigh
• New CME Product for 2005
• Nominations Sought for Media Award
• Open Forum on Sleep Apnea
• Open Forum on Intraoperative Awareness and Monitoring
• President Addresses Locked Carts and Audible Alarms
• Residents’ Research Essay Contest Award Recipients Honored
• Thanks to Our Sponsors
• The Big One

ASAPAC

• ASAPAC: Not Red or Blue, Just Working for You
• ASAPAC: The Political Voice and Legacy of All ASA Members

Cardiovascular Anesthesiology

Certificate in Business Administration

• 2006 CBA Program
• CBA Program Begins Fifth Year

Committee News

• Spinal Manipulation Under Anesthesia/Sedation

Communications

• A Bearable Way to Spend Doctors Day: A Poster Retrospective
• Committee Involvement — From Resident to Private Practitioner
• From the Headlines
• Heal Thyself. Once Seen as Risky, One Group of Doctors Changes Its Ways: Anesthesiologists Now Offer Model of How to Improve Safety, Lower Premiums; Surgeons Are Following Suit
• Loud and Clear: ASA Annual Meeting Resident Communications Workshop
• Making of the Wall Street Journal Article — Story of an In-Depth Report: Astute Journalist Meets Patient Safety Experts
• Media Show Awareness of Anesthesiology’s Hot Issues
• Media Spokesperson: What Will You Do When You Get the Call?
• Meeting in the Middle: Communicating With Our Physician Colleagues

Component Society News

• ASA Member Named to National Space Biomedical Research Institute External Advisory Council
• Anesthesiologist Is Beeson Scholarship Award Winner
• Member Assumes University-Wide Role in Cardiovascular Genomics at Duke
• Oklahoma Society of Anesthesiologists Summer Meeting

Continuing Medical Education

• Division of Scientific Affairs: ASA’s CME Home
• Innovation and the Future in Continuing Medical Education (CME)
• New CME Product in 2005
• New CME Product for 2005

Critical Care Medicine

• ASCCA: A Defining Role in Future Improved Outcomes
• FAER Critical Care Research Council Off to Strong Start
• Subspecialty Certification Examinations in Critical Care Medicine and Pain Medicine

Data Management

Distinguished Service Award

• A History of the Distinguished Service Award
• Nominations for Distinguished Service Award

Doctors Day • 2005

• A Bearable Way to Spend Doctors Day: A Poster Retrospective
• Doctors Day: Why All the Fuss?

Economic Issues

• Good Cents: An Update from the Committee on Economics
• Pay-for-Performance: The Hot Health Policy Topic of 2005

Electronic Media

• The Web We’ve Woven: ASA’s Dynamic Web Site

Endowed Professorship

Equipment

• Efforts Under Way to Revise the Preuse Checkout Recommendations

Ethics

• What Is Organ Donation After Cardiac Death? Why Do I Need to Know?

Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research

• History of FAER: An Investment in the Future
• A Model of Philanthropy: Ronald L. Katz, M.D.
• A Tale of Three Residents
• Academics, Medicine and the Things I Used to Know
• FAER Activities at the 2005 ASA Annual Meeting
• FAER Annual Meeting Wrap-Up
• FAER Announces 5 Grant Recipients
• FAER Board of Directors Holds Elections
• FAER Centennial Activities During 2005 Annual Meeting
• FAER Critical Care Research Council Off to Strong Start
• FAER Honorary Research Lecture
• FAER Pain Research Council Expanding
• FAER Pediatrics Research Council Gaining Momentum
• Geriatrics Research Council Up and Running
• Leading the Way With Your Support
• Mentoring Research: Reclaiming Our Role as Research Leaders
• Philanthropy as an Investment
• Philanthropy Now
• Research in the Relief of Pain and Suffering in Cancer
• Research Not Taken for Granted: Announcing 2004 Award Recipients
• Research Not Taken for Granted: Announcing 2005 Award Recipients, Part 2
• Philanthropy as an Investment
• The Way Things Ought to Be

From the Crow's Nest

• A Centurion Arrives — Why Our Past May Help to Mold Our Future
• A Tale of Three Residents
• Academics, Medicine and the Things I Used to Know
• Celebration and Remembrance: The Price of Freedom?
• February Blues
• Hey, Anesthesia!
• Me vs. We
• Midsummer
• The Editor’s Desk
• The Way Things Ought to Be
• Yes, Dear Thomas, There Is a Santa Claus
• When the Time Comes
• Who We Are at 100 — Reflections of a Historian

Future of Anesthesiology

• Epilogue
• Report From the Task Force on Future Paradigms of Anesthesia Practice
• What’s in Store for Us in 2025?

Geriatric Anesthesia

• Care of the Elderly Is the New Frontier of Anesthetic Practice
• Geriatrics Research Council Up and Running

Governmental Affairs

• ASAPAC: Not Red or Blue, Just Working for You
• ASAPAC: The Political Voice and Legacy of All ASA Members
• ASA in Washington 2005 — The Year in Review
• Governmental Affairs? For Residents?
• I Wish I Could Speak Spanish
• Medicine and Government Regulation — the Times, They Have Been Changing
• Pain Medicine: Taking Our Message to Congress and the Administration

Herbal Medicines and Dietary Supplements

HIPAA Issues

• Complying With the HIPAA Security Rule

History of Anesthesia

• 2006 Conference on Practice Management: Register Now!
• AHA Announces 2004 David M. Little Prize Winners
• AHA Resident Essay Contest Winners Honored
• A Centurion Arrives — Why Our Past May Help to Mold Our Future
• A Day in the Life: 1905
• A Day in the LIfe: 1955
• A Historical Review of the Origin and Contributions of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation
• History of FAER: An Investment in the Future
• A History of the Distinguished Service Award
• A Short History of Paul Wood’s Anesthesia Collection: The Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology
• Albert Heircy Miller: Anesthesiology Pioneer
• Freud, Erdmann and Einstein: Heroes of 1905, ASA’s Founding Year
• From There to Modernity: A Millennium of Progress in a Century
• History as a Subspecialty of Anesthesiology
• Preservation of the WLM Living History Collection and Educational Films
• Remembering Our Past: A Look at the Resident Component
• The Anesthesia Foundation
• The Complete Pain Physician
• The Long Island Society of Anesthetists
• The Role of Anesthesiologistsin Paramedic Training
• The Rovenstine Lectureship
• Then and Now: The Women of ASA

Hurricane Katrina

• 2005 Annual Meeting in Atlanta Exceeds Expectations in Wake of Hurricane Katrina
• ASA Helping Residents Resume Life After Katrina
• ASA Members Live Their Calling by Tending to Hurricane Victims

Information for Authors

• 2005
• 2006

Information Technology

• Computers: Keeping Up With the Technology Boom
• Perioperative Connection: A Look at the Computerized Anesthesia Record
• The Web We’ve Woven: ASA’s Dynamic Web Site
• Update From Committee on Information Management

In Memoriam

• January 2005
• February 2005
• March 2005
• June 2005
• July 2005
• September 2005

International Medical Graduates

JCAHO

• Behind JCAHO Anesthesia-Related Sentinel Event Statistics: Not Exactly a Trend

Learning Tracks

• 2005 Annual Meeting Adds More Learning Tracks
• Annual Meeting Learning Tracks Announced: Cardiac and Neuro

Letters to the Editor

• A FAER and Balanced Way of Ensuring Our Future
• A Positive Spin on Recent NEWSLETTER Content
• Accreditation Where Accreditation Is Due: Reaction to Dr. Brown’s Letter
• An Unusual Response Needed: Dr. Brown Comments on Dr. Cork’s Letter
• Are Safety Catheters Safer?
• Article Helps Doc Breathe Easier
• Article ‘Incompleat’ Because of Editorial Change
• ASAPAC ‘Bush-whacking’ Our Nation’s Health
• Biggest Certainly Not Best When It Comes to AMA
• Blame It All on IMGs!
• Changing Clothes, Changing Attitudes
• Cleaning Up Catheter-Related Sepsis
• Current State of Quality Health Care Directly Related to IMGs
• Did President Clinton Get ‘Nursed’ Back to Health?
• Disclaimer Needed: Robot Intubations and No Anesthesiologists Are ‘Whopper’ Speculations
• Doc’s Sabbatical No Child’s Play
• Door Shutting for Anesthesiologists in Surgical Centers
• Dr. Bacon’s Wardrobe Opinions Wearing on Reader
• Dr. Cork’s Response to Dr. Brown
• Dr. Sprung Responds to Dr. Metz
• Dress for Success, or the Joke’s on You
• Early Labor and Epidurals: The Devil Is in the Details
• Erratum
• FAER Activities at the 2005 ASA Annual Meeting
• From India to Indiana, There Are Good Docs and Bad Docs
• Hands Off Is Not a ‘Handoff’
• Hard Evidence for IMG/AMG Debate
• Hard Road Is Right Road Regarding Professionalism
• IMGs Make Country and Specialty Better
• IMGs Not the Problem: Entire Specialty Is Lacking
• Implantable Device Training Only Scratches Surface
• Ivory Tower Needs to Open Its Doors
• Judge AMGs/IMGs by Performance, Not Appearance
• Key to Success Lies in Strength of Numbers
• Knowing When to Stop
• Laryngospasm: A Preventable Cause of Cardiac Arrest
• Leno Joke a Breath of Fresh Air
• Let’s Get the Coverage We Deserve
• MRI Procedures Truly a Team Effort
• Naming the Missing Element in AMG/IMG Debate
• New Chemical Dependency Intervention Resource Available
• No Negotiating This Time
• Now Is No Time to Change Payment Methodology
• Operation Hero
• Our Future Lies in Advocacy
• Pay for Performance an Insult to Profession
• Performance Measures for the Real World
• Practicing What You Teach
• Private Practice Anything But When It Comes to Teaching and Learning
• Reader Gives Editor 3rd Degree
• Reader Smells Something Rotten in Dr. Bacon’s Professional Dress Argument
• Reflections of a ‘Foreigner’
• Reply to Dr. Thys from Chair of the Residency Review Committee for Anesthesiology
• Respect for Prez’s Privacy Reason for Lack of Publicity After Clinton Surgery
• Respiratory Strategies in Obesity: Some Pros and Cons
• Rethinking Anesthesia Care During MRI
• Rethinking the Golden Rule
• Retiring and Dreading It
• Rovenstine Lecturer Clarifies Stance on Specialty’s Future
• Setting the Medical Record Straight
• Should I Still Be an ASA Member?
• The Future Isn’t Bright
• The Ugly Face of Faceless IMG Debate
• Wake Up or Smell the Eulogy
• We Don’t Need This Kind of Hero
• What All ASA Members Should Really Know About the ACGME and RRC
• What’s the Scoop on SCIP?
• Which Nonphysician Will We Give Our Jobs to Next?
• Writers Demand Apology for AMG/IMG Controversy

Malignant Hyperthermia

• Malignant Hyperthermia Syndrome: From Barnyard to Molecular Genetics Laboratory
• MHAUS to Offer Two Writing Awards

Media Award

• Media Show Awareness of Anesthesiology’s Hot Issues
• Nominations Sought for Media Award

Medical Professionalism

Medicare/Reimbursement

• Economic Update: ASA Advocacy for the Pain Medicine Practice
• Payment Methodology: Is Change in the Air?

Medical Student Issues

• ASA Medical Student Delegation Update

Military Issues

• Baghdad: Hope Amid the Ruins
• On the Front: Army Anesthesiologists in Operation Iraqi Freedom — Perioperative Consultants Making a Difference on the Battlefield
• Uniformed Services Society of Anesthesiologists: An Update
• Walking Blood Bank in Combat Trauma Resuscitation

National Resident Match Program

• National Resident Matching Program Results for 2005: Slight Increase in Recruitment
• Resident Numbers and Graduation Rates From Residencies

Obituaries

• Nicholas M. Greene, M.D.: 1922-2004
• Oliver F. Bush, M.D. (1919-2005): ASA President, 1964

Obstetric Anesthesiology

• Committee on Obstetrical Anesthesia Greets Future With Guarded Optimism
• Moving Forward With SOAP
• SOAP International Outreach: The Next Frontier
• SOAP ‘Scores’ BigWith New Adverse Complication Tracking Project
• Update From the SOAP Education Committee

Occupational Health

• Legal Aspects of Drug Testing
• Stress Management: Learning to Stay Healthy in the Bear Pit
• Traditional I.V. Catheters: To Be or Not to Be, That Is the Question!
• Waste Anesthetic Gas Video Now Available on DVD

Office-Based Anesthesiology

• New Jersey Board of Medical Examiners Prevails in Office-Based Surgery Litigation
• New Jersey Supreme Court Hears Challenge to Office-Based Surgery Regulations
• New Jersey Supreme Court Unanimously Upholds Office-Based Surgery Regulations

Off-Site Anesthesia

Outreach Education

Overseas Teaching

Pain Medicine

• Cancer Pain Update
• Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Update
• CON: Opioids in Patients Without Cancer: The Pendulum Needs to Shift Back to the Center
• Let’s Take a Rational Approach to Technical Training in Pain Medicine
• Economic Update: ASA Advocacy for the Pain Medicine Practice
• Pain Medicine: Taking Our Message to Congress and the Administration
• President Addresses Locked Carts and Audible Alarms
• PRO: Opioids Have Been, Are and Always Will Be an Essential Tool in the Management of Patients With Acute, Chronic and Cancer Pain: There Is No Debate
• Subspecialty Certification Examinations in Critical Care Medicine and Pain Medicine
• The Complete Pain Physician

Patient Safety

• Anesthesia, Surgery and Long-Term Outcomes
• Heal Thyself. Once Seen as Risky, One Group of Doctors Changes Its Ways: Anesthesiologists Now Offer Model of How to Improve Safety, Lower Premiums; Surgeons Are Following Suit
• Leadership in Patient Safety
• Making of the Wall Street Journal Article — Story of an In-Depth Report: Astute Journalist Meets Patient Safety Experts
• Traditional I.V. Catheters: To Be or Not to Be, That Is the Question!

Pediatric Anesthesia

• Clarifying the Content of ‘Pediatric Gap’ Article in The New Yorker
• FAER Pediatrics Research Council Gaining Momentum
• Hot Topics in Pediatric Anesthesiology
• Trends in Pediatric Anesthesia Malpractice Claims Over the Last Three Decades
• Providing Anesthesia for Pediatric Patients
• Recent Findings From the Pediatric Perioperative Cardiac Arrest (POCA) Registry
• Society for Pediatric Anesthesia — Caring for Kids and Their Anesthesiologists
• What's New at COPA?

Performance and Outcomes Measurment

Physician Demographics

• At a Glance
• Then and Now: The Women of ASA

Postoperative Cognitive Disfunctio

Practice Management Column

• ASA Information Technology Expert Becomes a Resource to CMS
• CMS Relaxes Rule on Postanesthesia Notes
• Complying With the HIPAA Security Rule
• Conversion Factor and Coding Changes for 2006
• Fees Paid for Anesthesia Services: 2005 Survey Results
• Gainsharing: What Every Anesthesiologist Needs to Know
• Hospital Contracts Survey: 2004 Data
• Last Chance to Complete MGMA/ASA Cost Survey: Final Deadline is June 27, 2005
• Locked Anesthesia Carts: CMS Proposes to Change the Rule (At Last!)
• MGMA Cost Survey for Anesthesia Practices: Deadline Extended
• Pay-for-Performance: The Hot Health Policy Topic of 2005
• Public Reporting of Performance Data
• Quality Management Tools for the Anesthesia Department
• Rejecting a Bad Payer Contract
• SCIP Who?
• State Legislation to Require Insurers to Pay Nonparticipating Physicians
• The 2005 ASA MADOM
• The ASA Quality Management Template
• Two Surveys That You Will Love: Anesthesia Practice Costs, Anesthesia Fees

Practice Management Issues

• Academic or Private-Practice Anesthesiology Groups: You Still Support Surgical Training Programs!
• Anesthesia Practice CPR: Conference Breathes New Life Into Practice Management Issues
• CON: Should You Secede From the Medical School to Better Meet Your Academic and Clinical Missions?
• Incentive Programs for Academics … or … Be Careful What You Wish For
• Legal Aspects of Drug Testing
• Practice Management Conference: Diverse, Helpful, Interactive
• PRO: Being Part of a Multispecialty Practice Group Is Not a Good Financial Deal
• Who Moved My Ether?

Practice Parameters

• Practice Parameter Activity: CRMD Advisory Approved

Presidential Scholar Award

• Zhiyi Zuo, M.D., Ph.D. — 2005 ASA Presidential Scholar

Problem-Based Learning Discussions

• 2006 PBLD Program — Open Call for Case Submissions
• PBLD 2005: More Cases and More New Offerings Than Ever!

Professional Liability

• Recent Findings From the Pediatric Perioperative Cardiac Arrest (POCA) Registry
• Trends in Pediatric Anesthesia Malpractice Claims Over the Last Three Decades
• Yearly Survey of Premiums: Professional Liability Insurance for Anesthesiologists

Quality Management and Departmental Administration

Regional Anesthesia

• Continuous Peripheral Nerve Blocks for Patients at Home
• Needle Placement and Beyond … Teaching Regional Anesthesia to Residents and Fellows
• New Guidelines for Antithrombotic Therapy: Making Blood Thinner Than Water
• Regional Anesthesia-Analgesia and Patient Outcomes — Are We There Yet?
• Ultrasound Imaging for Nerve Block: A Standard Practice for the Future?

Research in Anesthesiology

• Committee on Research: A Review of What We Do
• FAER Pediatrics Research Council Gaining Momentum
• Mentoring Research: Reclaiming Our Role as Research Leaders
• Research in the Relief of Pain and Suffering in Cancer
• The Making of a Physician Scientist: It Starts With Mentoring

Residents' Issues

• 2004 Resident Research Forum: What Happened in Vegas Should NOT Stay in Vegas!
• 2005 a Busy and Productive Year for ASA Resident Component
• A Good Time to Be a Resident: ASARC Makes Progress in Legislative and Professional Realms
• Anesthesiology Residency Review Committee Resident Member Recruitment
• ASA Annual Meeting — Elections, Resolutions, Research and Fun
• ASA Helping Residents Resume Life After Katrina
• From Idealism to Reality: Review of the Resident Component Annual Meeting
• Governmental Affairs? For Residents?
• Loud and Clear: ASA Annual Meeting Resident Communications Workshop
• Midwest Anesthesiology Residents Conference — 2005
• Not What You Might Expect: A Resident’s Perspective on the AUA Annual Meeting
• Remembering Our Past: A Look at the Resident Component
• Residents Invited to Enter Research Essay Contest
• Residents’ Research Essay Contest Award Recipients Honored

Residents' Review Column

• 2004 Resident Research Forum: What Happened in Vegas Should NOT Stay in Vegas!
• 2005 a Busy and Productive Year for ASA Resident Component
• A Good Time to Be a Resident: ASARC Makes Progress in Legislative and Professional Realms
• A Resident’s Perspective on CMS’ Teaching Rule
• Anesthesia History Association Resident Essay Contest
• ASA Annual Meeting — Elections, Resolutions, Research and Fun
• ASA Helping Residents Resume Life After Katrina
• Anesthesiology Residency Review Committee Resident Member Recruitment
• From Idealism to Reality: Review of the Resident Component Annual Meeting
• Loud and Clear: ASA Annual Meeting Resident Communications Workshop
• Midwest Anesthesiology Residents Conference — 2005
• More Than Just Another Year
• Not What You Might Expect: A Resident’s Perspective on the AUA Annual Meeting
• Perioperative Connection: A Look at the Computerized Anesthesia Record

Respiratory Care

• Committee on Respiratory Care: Helping ASA Breathe Easier Through Important Liaisons

Rural Anesthesia Issues

SEE Program

Sleep Apnea

• Open Forum on Sleep Apnea

Spotlight On…

• Lawrence S. Berman, M.D. — Ever-Vigilant, at Work and at Sea
• Spotlight On… Maybe You?

State Beat

• 2005 State Legislative Session
• ASA Attends National Conference of State Legislatures’ Annual Meeting
• Court of Appeals of Ohio Upholds Anesthesiologist Assistant Regulations; Wisconsin Supreme Court Invalidates Caps on Noneconomic Damages
• Legal Challenges Continue in the States
• Montana Opts In!
• New Jersey Board of Medical Examiners Prevails in Office-Based Surgery Litigation
• New Jersey Supreme Court Hears Challenge to Office-Based Surgery Regulations
• New Jersey Supreme Court Unanimously Upholds Office-Based Surgery Regulations
• Physician Supervision of Nurse Anesthetists Upheld by North Carolina Appellate Court
• Summary of 2005 State Activities

Subspecialty News

• Anesthesia, Surgery and Long-Term Outcomes
• ASCCA: A Defining Role in Future Improved Outcomes
• AUA: Always a Learning Experience
• Care of the Elderly Is the New Frontier of Anesthetic Practice
• History as a Subspecialty of Anesthesiology
• ITACCS Becomes International TraumaCare
• Moving Forward With SOAP
• Revenge of the Nerds: STA Comes of Age
• Society for Education in Anesthesia: 20 Years and Going Strong
• Society for Pediatric Anesthesia — Caring for Kids and Their Anesthesiologists

Surgical Care Improvement Project

• SCIP Who?

Transplant Anesthesia

• Sharing Information About Organ Transplantation

Transfusion Medicine

Trauma Medicine

• Hypothermia in Trauma Victims
• ITACCS Becomes International TraumaCare
• Massive Transfusion Protocol for Trauma
• The Role of Anesthesiologistsin Paramedic Training
• Trauma: Airway Management

Washington Report

• 2005 Offers New Opportunities, Old Challenges for Incoming Director
• 2006 Medicare Payment Fix by No Means a Certainty — Urgent Action Still Needed!
• ASA Hails Passage of Patient Safety Bill, Joins President Bush at White House Signing
• Congress and the Administration Turning Up the Heat — Important Issues Starting to Simmer
• Congressional Leaders and Administration Officials Featured at 2005 ASA Legislative Conference
• ‘Day in Washington’ — Prelude to ASA Legislative Conference
• Medicare Pay for Performance — Moving Closer to Reality
• Medicare SGR — It’s All About the Money
• No Time Like the Present for Tackling Some Hard Issues
• The Medicare Teaching Rule —The Battle Has Been Joined
• Together We Really Are Stronger

What's New In …

• ASA Medical Student Delegation Update
• Anesthesia Foundation: Aiding Anesthesiology Residents Since 1956
• Association of Anesthesiology Program Directors (AAPD) & Society of Academic Anesthesiology Chairs (SAAC)
• Computers: Keeping Up With the Technology Boom
• Evaluating an Industry-Sponsored Trial
• Medicare Pay for Performance — An Emerging Voluntary Program? And, What About SGR Reform?
• Mentoring Research: Reclaiming Our Role as Research Leaders
• Payment Methodology: Is Change in the Air?
• Perioperative Respiratory Strategies for Morbidly Obese Patients
• Practice Parameter Activity: CRMD Advisory Approved
• Sedation With Propofol: A New ASA Statement
• Stress Management: Learning to Stay Healthy in the Bear Pit

Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology

• A Short History of Paul Wood’s Anesthesia Collection: The Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology
• Freud, Erdmann and Einstein: Heroes of 1905, ASA’s Founding Year
• Preservation of the WLM Living History Collection and Educational Films
• The Big One

Workforce Issues

World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists

• World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists: Making the Highest Standards of Anesthesia Available to All People of the World

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