Review of the intraoperative management and hemodynamic goals for patients with aortic stenosis, mitral stenosis, aortic insufficiency, and mitral valve regurgitation.
Diagnostic considerations for asymptomatic patients who present in the outpatient setting with known or unknown disease (auscultatory exam / preoperative echocardiogram)
The objectives of this course are:
- An increased understanding of virtual reality (history, science)
- General healthcare applications of virtual reality
- Applications of virtual reality in anesthesia
Speaker information coming soon
This presentation will introduce new medications, discuss their pharmacologic properties, and dive into clinical applications useful for the Dentist Anesthesiologist.
Attendees will come away with an introduction to the following novel medications:
- BYFAVO® (Remimzolam): a new sedative with an ultra-short half-life that will improve safety of moderate sedation in dentistry.
- CLEVIPREX® (Clevidipine): A fast-acting, ultra-short half-life dihydropyridine calcium channel blocker used to rapidly reduce systolic blood pressure within two minutes of initial dosing.
- DSUVIA® (Sublingual Sufenanil): an enteral form of sufentanil FDA approved for management of moderate to severe pain.
- EXPAREL® (Liposomal Bupivicaine): Bupivicaine encapsulated in multivesicular liposomes injected locally for long lasting post-surgical pain management.
- AKYNZEO® (Netupitant/Palonosetron): An anti-nausea medication for treatment of chemotherapy induced nausea and vomiting utilizing both a NK-1 receptor antagonist and a 5-HT3 receptor antagonist in one pill or injectable.
An introduction to perioperative alternatives to opioids for general anesthesia, and a discussion of how reduced opioid use impacts patient care.
Attendees will come away with:
- Understand and identify reasons to minimize opioids perioperatively
- Identify alternative intraoperative anesthetic plans to decrease the use of opioids
- Identify potential patient candidates for opioid free and reduced anesthesia
- Identify alternative pain management strategies to opioids
- Understand how opioid-free and opioid-reduced anesthesia can contribute to Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS)
It’s 1987 and the term virtual reality was coined. Thirty-three years later, this technology is still young. What is this used for other than gaming and how can you apply it to anesthesiology?
Attendees will come away with:
- An increased understanding of virtual reality (history, science)
- General healthcare applications of virtual reality
- Applications of virtual reality in anesthesia
The COVID-19 pandemic has shifted the landscape of anesthesia care to involve telehealth, a tool that includes phone- and video-conferencing. Traditionally, pre-anesthesia consultations involve in person medical history-taking; laboratory testing or investigations; focused physical examination; and referral to other medical services to optimize the patient’s health prior to anesthetic procedures. The transition to incorporate virtual visits for not only patients living in rural and remote areas, but also local patients, prompts anesthesiologists to adapt their traditional practices to a new digital platform.
This lecture highlights best practices for virtual pre-anesthesia consultations.
The objectives of this course are:
- Review the components of traditional pre-anesthesia consultation
- Define telehealth and virtual anesthesia consultation
- Identify the advantages, challenges, and limitations of virtual visits
- Examine how current best practices of telemedicine may be adapted to anesthesia practice
- Develop best practices for virtual pre-anesthesia consultation
Dr. Michelle Wong, Assistant Professor of Dental Anesthesiology at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Dentistry, is a dental anesthesiologist who obtained her Doctor of Dental Surgery degree in 2010, Master of Science in Dental Anesthesia in 2014, and Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership in 2020. Dr. Wong is a Diplomate of the American Dental Board of Anesthesiology. She performs special care dentistry and anesthesia in an active hospital practice at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre’s Department of Dental Maxillofacial Sciences and in private practices in the Greater Toronto Area.
- Vice-President of Oral Board Exams, American Dental Board of Anesthesiology (ADBA)
- Board of Directors, American Dental Society of Anesthesiology (ADSA)
- Board of Directors & Examiner, American Dental Board of Anesthesiology (ADBA)
- President & Co-founder, Washington State Society of Mobile Dental Anesthesia (WSSMDA)
- President and Delegate, Washington State American Dental Society of Anesthesiology (ADSA)
- Co-creator, Ten Minutes Saves a Life! Emergency Manual and application
- Co-Director, Parenteral Moderate Sedation, Oregon Academy of General Dentistry (OAGD)
- Co-Director, High Fidelity Human Simulation (SimMan), American Dental Society of Anesthesiology (ADSA)
- Recruitment Task Force, International Federation of Dental Anesthesia Societies
- Editorial Advisory Board for Decisions in Dentistry
- Chair of the Reference Committee, American Dental Society of Anesthesiology (ADSA)
- Faculty, General Anesthesia & Moderate Sedation, American Dental Society of Anesthesiology (ADSA)
- Course Director, Assistant’s Course, American Dental Society of Anesthesiology (ADSA)
- Associate Professor and Attending, Swedish Medical Center General Practice Residency (Seattle, WA)
This session will be an amazing opportunity to teach and learn as a community through a live interactive panel discussion with our Dentist Anesthesiologist experts Dr. Andrea Fonner, Dr. Steve Ganzberg and Dr. Joe Giovannitti.
Join us to see how some of our esteemed colleagues approach interesting cases. These may be cases that may not be appropriate to be treated in the office and/or patients with complex medical issues.