Friday, February 15
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3:00 - 6:00p
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Registration Location: Prefunction C
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4:00 - 6:00p
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Exhibit Assembly Location: Mercer Room
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4:30 - 6:30p
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Board of Directors Meeting Location: Concourse North
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7:45p
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GSA Hospitality Room Networking Location: See registration desk for details Hors d'oeuvres and refreshments provided
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Saturday, February 16
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6:00a
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Exhibit Assembly Location: Prefunction C
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6:30 - 7:20a
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Registration Location: Prefunction C
Breakfast with Exhibitors Location: Mercer Room
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7:25 – 7:30a
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*Unless otherwise noted all activities will take place in Concourse Ballroom
Welcome Maurice Gilbert, MD, FASA GSA President
Introductions Billy Thomas, MD & Rachel Steckelberg, MD, MPH GSA 2019 Winter Activity Directors
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7:30 - 8:30a
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Anesthesia for Patients with Reduced Ejection Fraction Ellen Richter, MD, Emory University School of Medicine
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the pathophysiology of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF)
- Understand the impact of left ventricular systolic failure on perioperative outcomes
- Review perioperative guidelines relevant to HFrEF
- Understand how common anesthetic techniques and agents impact the failing LV
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8:30 - 9:30a
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Elevated Maternal Mortality and Racial Disparities in Access to Medicine Shelly Norris, MD, Emory University School of Medicine
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the current state of maternal mortality in the U.S. and Georgia.
- Identify causes of disparity in maternal mortality.
- Evaluate current personal attitude toward minority patients and reflect on implicit bias in practice.
- Identify strategies to reduce/eliminate disparities in maternal health outcomes.
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9:30 - 10:00a
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Break with Exhibitors Location: Mercer Room
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9:30a - 11:00a
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Resident Section Meeting Location: Kern
GA-AAA Business Meeting Location: Porter
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10:00 - 11:00a |
Opioids- Legal Implications for Prescribers Zwade J. Marshall, MD, MBA, Alliance Spine and Pain
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will be able to review the most updated opioid prescribing guidelines
- Participants will understand the documentation requirements for opioid prescribers
- Risk mitigation strategies for the potential opioid abusers will be reviewed
- Participants will learn the underpinnings of physician prosecutions by law enforcement
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11:00 - 12:00p
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Paradigm Changes in Pediatric Airway Julie Williamson, DO, Emory University School of Medicine
Learning Objectives:
- Contrast pediatric to adult airway management
- Compare delayed to rapid sequence intubation
- Explore limitations of front of neck access in pediatic patients
- Introduce the Vortex model of airway management
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12:00 - 12:30p
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Lunch Location: Gershwin
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12:30 - 1:30p
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Neuroanesthesia Potpourri Alexandar Papangelou, MD, Emory University School of Medicine
Learning Objectives:
- Appreciate the current status of evidence in the anesthetic management of endovascular mechanical thrombectomy
- Review the evidence-based non-opioid options for post-craniotomy pain
- Appreciate the approach to fluid management during craniotomy
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1:30 – 2:00p
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Break with Exhibitors Location: Mercer Room
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2:00 - 3:00p
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Poster Presentations of Top Scoring Trainee Research Projects
Presentation 1: Medically Challenging Case Suboxone in the peripartum patient. Lauren Guenther, MD
Presentation 2: Medically Challenging Case Remifentanil for RSI in a patient with malignant hyperthermia undergoing thyroidectomy. William Trudo, MD
Presentation 3: Original Scientific Research Prevalence of bradycardia associated with sugammadex administration in a single-center retrospective analysis of electronic medical record data. Matt Weis, MD
Presentation 4: Original Scientific Research Why are multiple administrations of sugammadex and/or neostigmine given? Arjun Meka, MD
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3:00 - 4:00p
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Committee Meetings
- Government Affairs & Practice Management - Mercer
- Membership - Bernstein II
- Program and Education - Bernstein I
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4:15p
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General Business Meeting Governance Assembly (Committee Reports)
Location: Concourse Ballroom
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Sunday, February 17
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8:30 - 10:30a
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Advocacy Training Workshops
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