The Department of Anesthesia is proud to have several members of the Department presenting at the 2018 American Society of Anesthesiologists annual meeting in San Francisco:

International Forum on Perioperative Safety and Quality Meeting

Randy Loftus: Implementing an Anesthesiologist Friendly Perioperative Surgical Site Infection (SSI) Prevention Protocol

Abstracts

• Franklin Dexter: Seasonality of Surgical Workload: A Longitudinal, Cohort Study of Hospitals From the State of Florida
• Franklin Dexter: Data Quality of Perioperative Milestones in an Enterprise Anesthesia Information Management System Database
• Franklin Dexter, Kokila N. Thenuwara: At All Hospitals in the State of Iowa, Percentages of Cases Performed During Weekends or Holidays Increased Close to Proportionally with Total Caseload Over a Decade
• Osa Emohare, Santiago Ortega, Rahul Rastogi: Characterizing Bone Density Using CT Attenuation in Vertebral Augmentation
• Osa Emohare, Santiago Ortega, Rahul Rastogi: Radiation Dose in Patients Undergoing Vertebral Augmentation
• Eli D. Musselman, Javier H. Campos, Satoshi Hanada, Kenichi Ueda: Lung Isolation Techniques in Patients with Early Stage Or Long Term Tracheostomy: A Case Series Report of 70 Cases and Recommendations

Medically Challenging Case Presentations

• Deepak Agarwal, Lovkesh Arora: Angiotensin Ii (giapreza) Trial In Severe Vasoplegia Status Post Right Ventricular Assist Device (rvad) And Left Ventricular Assist Device (lvad) Placement
• Deepak Agarwal, Lovkesh Arora: Quadriplegia Status Post Thoracic Endovascular Aneurysm Repair (tevar) With Carotid-subclavian Bypass - Spinal Cord Perfusion Impairment Or Cervical Cord Compression Myelopathy?
• Karolyn F. Fox-Dahl, Rashmi Mueller: Ventricular Tachycardia Due To R On T Phenomenon During Craniotomy
• Asad Hashmi, Lovkesh Arora: Endovascular Retrieval Of Retained Single Lumen Infusion Catheter In Inferior Vena Cava Status Post Combined Liver-kidney Transplant
• Martha O. Herbst: Ondansetron-Associated Buccolingual Dystonia In A Pediatric Patient
• Paige Keasler, Lovkesh Arora: Challenging Airway: Bleeding from Subglottic Stenosis
• Jonathan Otten, Lovkesh Arora: Assessment And Management Of Cerebral Perfusion Following Iatrogenic Occlusion Of The Innominate Artery In A Patient Status Post Aortic Debranching
• Matthew Sanders, Lovkesh Arora: Veno-venous Bypass Via The Left Internal Jugular Vein During Liver Transplant In A Hemodynamically Unstable Patient
• Chelsea L. Stiles, Satoshi Hanada, Matthew J. Maxwell, Dionne F. Peacher: Combined Caesarean Section And Type A Aortic Dissection Repair

Panel Presentations

• Bradley J. Hindman: Update on Stroke for the Anesthesiologist
• W. Kirke Rogers: Anesthetic Implications of Acute, Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury
• Cynthia A. Wong: PIEB (Programmed intermittent Epidural Bolus) Versus PCEA (Patient Controlled Epidural Analgesia): Alphabet Soup on Labor and Delivery: PIEB: Another Approach to Labor Analgesia

Refresher Course Lecture

• Franklin Dexter: Improving First Case of the Day on Time Starts CAN Increase Operating Room Efficiency

Workshops

• Ron O. Abrons: Front of Neck Emergency Invasive Airway Rescue Using Swine Trachea Model: Invasive Airway Access
• Javier H. Campos: Thoracic Anesthesia Workshop
• Katherine G. Keech: Ultrasound Guided Pediatric Regional Anesthesia