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Maui Anesthesia Seminar

February 22 - March 1, 2025 at the Hyatt Regency Maui Resort & Spa

 

Lecture Schedule

Saturday, February 22 Optional Travel Day
 
Sunday, February 23
5:30 PM–6:30 PM  Welcome Reception for Attendee and Spouse/Guest
     
Monday, February 24
7:30 AM Dr. Slinger Intra-Operative Management of the Patient with Severe Lung Disease
8:30 AM Dr. Rosenblatt The 2022 ASA Airway Guidelines
9:45 AM Dr. Tsen Dural Puncture Epidural Technique: The Optimal Labor Analgesia?
10:45 AM   Dr. Zimmerman Focused Cardiac Ultrasound – for Everyone or for Anyone?
11:45 AM Dr. Rosenblatt  Problematic Airway and Advanced Airway Assessment
     
Tuesday, February 25
7:30 AM Dr. Rosenblatt The 2023 PUMA Guidelines for Prevention of Unrecognized Esophageal Intubation
8:30 AM Dr. Tsen Finding Nemo: Neuraxial Techniques and Options for the "Difficult Back"
9:45 AM Dr. Zimmerman Principles and Application of Perioperative Lung Ultrasound
10:45 AM Dr. Slinger Update on Lung Isolation and One-Lung Ventilation
11:45 AM Panel Discussion Drs. Tsen, Rosenblatt, Slinger, and Zimmerman
     
Wednesday, February 26 No Lectures / Day Off... A Day to Enjoy Maui!
     
Thursday, February 27
7:30 AM Dr. Zimmerman Abdominal Ultrasound – Gastric and FAST, I Promise It's for You!
8:30 AM Dr. Slinger Management of Patients with Anterior Mediastinal Masses and
Other Lower Airway Problems
9:45 AM Dr. Rosenblatt Awake Intubation Made Easy and the Flexible Intubation Scope
10:45 AM Dr. Tsen Difficult Conversations and How to Handle Them
The Dr. Bill Smith Lecture Series Presentation
11:45 AM Panel Discussion Drs. Tsen, Rosenblatt, Slinger, and Zimmerman
     
Friday, February 28
7:30 AM Dr. Tsen Clinical Conundrums in Obstetric Analgesia and Anesthesia
8:30 AM Dr. Slinger Advances in the Peri-Operative Care of Thoracic Patients for Which We (Anesthesia) Don't Get No (Much) Credit
9:45 AM Dr. Rosenblatt Emergency Invasive Airway and Extubation of the Difficult Airway
10:45 AM Dr. Zimmerman Rescue TEE for Non-Cardiac Anesthesia
11:45 AM Panel Discussion Drs. Tsen, Rosenblatt, Slinger, and Zimmerman
     
Saturday, March 1 Optional Travel Day


*Please note that the lecture topics and/or schedule may change if necessary.

Holiday Seminars does not accept any funds from commercial interests and no one involved in the planning or choice of presentations has any commercial interests.  All members of the faculty are evaluated in advance and in the opinion of Holiday Seminars have no commercial ties to ensure that the presentations are free from any bias from commercial interests.
 

Course Objectives

To review related physiology, pharmacology, agents and techniques that contribute to the art and science of anesthesiology. To discuss new agents, techniques, and controversies in the field, assisting the participant in preparing better patient care plans.

 

Lecture Objectives

 

  • Discuss the intraoperative use of pulmonary vasodilators for patients with pulmonary hypertension.
  • Describe the new ASA airway infographic.
  • Compare the pharmacologic labor and cesarean management of DPE, versus CSE and EPL techniques.
  • Describe the value of surface cardiac ultrasound for preoperative assessment.
  • Evaluate a variety of difficult airway patients.
  • Diagnose the absence of a capnography curve.
  • Discuss what elements make neuraxial techniques more difficult, and examine labor analgesic options if neuraxial techniques cannot be placed.
  • Identify indications for perioperative lung ultrasound, and recognize the ultrasound findings of pneumothorax.
  • Identify recent advances in the available options for lung isolation in thoracic surgery.
  • Discuss the changes that you could make to improve your practice as a result of attending the panel discussion.
  • Describe the value of gastric ultrasound in the assessment of patients taking GLP-1 agonists.
  • Develop a plan for perioperative management of a patient with an anterior mediastinal mass.
  • Discuss how to use topical anesthetic blocks for awake intubation.
  • Identify the strategies discussed that can aid in difficult conversations.
  • List the changes that you will make to your practice as a result of the suggestions presented in the panel discussion.
  • Review common clinical cases that present analgesia and anesthesia management issues, and discuss how risk- and evidence-based analyses can assist in decision making.
  • Explain the effects of volatile anesthetics on hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction.
  • Outline how to develop a plan for the difficult to extubate patient.
  • Discuss the value of TEE in the assessment of unstable patients.
  • List the ideas discussed in the panel that will improve your clinical performance.