8:00-8:30 am

Outcomes and Regional Anesthesia
Christopher L. Wu, MD

8:30:9:00 am

Catheter Congruent Analgesia
James C. Crews, MD

9:00-10:00 am

The Other End of the Needle: Patient oriented outcomes
Alex Macario, MD

Morbid Obesity in Pregnancy: A growing problem
Robert D'Angelo, MD

12:00-1:00 pm

Problem Based Learning Discussions (1 hour sessions)

PBL7 A 27-year old man is scheduled for outpatient knee surgery. Is there a place for regional anesthesia? - Richard L. Kahn, MD; Susan B. McDonald, MD

PBL8 (sold out) A 65-year old male is scheduled for TURP and requests spinal anesthesia. He is taking clopidogrel (Plavix). Is it safe to give him a spinal anesthetic?- Honorio T. Benzon, MD; Kenneth D. Candido, MD

PBL9 (sold out) A 2-year old female is scheduled for Wilms tumor removal. The surgeon has requested epidural analgesia if the anesthesiologist feels it would be of benefit for the child. How will you handle her postoperative analgesia? - Victor M. Zayas, MD; Robert S. Weller, MD

PBL10 A 24-year old male is scheduled for colectomy under combined epidural-general anesthesia and an accidental dural puncture occurs prior to successful and uneventful placement of the catheter at another interspace. During your visit on POD#1, the patient does not have evidence of a postdural puncture headache (PDPH) and requests that you remove the epidural catheter. Should you perform a prophylactic blood patch? - André P. Boezaart, MD; JC Gerancher, MD

PBL11 My obstetrician was concerned about the effect of labor analgesia on the rate of cesarean section delivery: what should I tell her? - James C. Eisenach, MD; Edward Riley, MD

PBL12 (sold out) Teaching Regional Anesthesia: What works and what doesn't?
Christopher L. Wu, MD; James D. Beckman, MD

1:00-2:00 pm

Labat Lecture - Brendan T. Finucane, MD

General Session II

2:00-2:30 pm

2:30-3:00 pm

Regional Anesthesia and OR Management: OR cost and OR efficiency
Brian A. Williams, MD

3:30-4:00 pm

4:00-4:30 pm

5:00 - 5:30 pm

5:00 - 5:45 pm