Meeting Program Guide

35th Annual Regional Anesthesia
Meeting and Workshops
April 22-25, 2010
Sheraton Centre Hotel
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Special Features

General Session Topics
Greatly Expanded Ultrasound Workshop Sessions
Resident and Fellow Programs
Enhanced Acute Pain Nursing Program
Opening Ceremony and Social Program
Industry-Sponsored Breakfast Panel


PBLD Breakout Sessions with the Experts

An additional fee will be charged for each optional PBLD Session. Preregistration is encouraged for optional meeting programs as these programs tend to reach full enrollment prior to the pre-registration cut-off date. It is recommended to make several choices for each time period of optional meeting programs. Space will be assigned on a first-come, first-serve basis. Refunds will be issued to individuals when optional programs are not available. Waiting lists will be established on-site at the meeting registration desk and efforts will be made to accommodate as many persons as possible in these programs.

Each PBLD is limited to 14 participants; separate registration is required.

Thursday, April 22nd
12:15-1:15 p.m.

PBLD 1: Practice Advisories and Consensus Guidelines for Regional Anesthesia
Spencer S. Liu, M.D.
PBLD 2: Outpatient Continuous Nerve Blocks: Who, When, and How Best to Accomplish?
Michael F. Mulroy, M.D.
PBLD 3: Neurologic Complications of Regional Anesthesia: Patient, Surgical, and
Anesthetic Risk Factors
Admir Hadzic, M.D., PhD
PBLD 4: Economic Implications of Regional Anesthesia
Brian A. Williams, M.D., MBA
PBLD 5: Ultrasound-Guided Peripheral Nerve Blockade: How to Get Started in
My Practice
Stuart A. Grant, MB,ChB
PBLD 6: Spinal Anesthesia in Patients with Spinal Stenosis or Prior Spinal Surgery:
Good Practice or Malpractice?
Kenneth Drasner, M.D.
PBLD 7: Optimal Adjuvants for Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine
John C. Rowlingson, M.D.

Thursday, April 22nd
3-4 p.m.

PBLD 8: Ultrasound 101: Understanding the Role of Ultrasound Physics and Knobology
in Image Acquisition
Anahi Perlas, M.D., FRCPC
PBLD 9:

Regional Anesthesia in the Anticoagulated Patient
Denise J. Wedel, M.D.

PBLD 10:

Multimodal Regimens for Acute Pain Management
Asokumar Buvanendran, M.D.

PBLD 11: Adverse Medicolegal Outcomes in Regional Anesthesia and Acute
Pain Management
John F. Butterworth, M.D.
PBLD 12:

The Opioid Tolerant Patient on the Acute Pain Service
Richard W. Rosenquist, M.D.

Saturday, April 24
9:30 - 10:30 a.m.

PBLD 13: Regional Anesthesia and Obstetric Anesthesia: (Spinal) Catheters, Coagulation,
and Other Conundrums
Craig M. Palmer, M.D.
PBLD 14: Making Regional Anesthesia Work in a Busy Private Practice
David Nelson, M.D.
PBLD 15:

Ambulatory Spinal Anesthesia Options in 2010
Julia E. Pollock, M.D.

PBLD 16: When Your Regional Technique Isn’t Perfect: Supplemental and Rescue Blocks
Andrew D. Rosenberg, M.D.
PBLD 17: Managing Local Anesthetic Toxicity
Guy Weinberg, M.D.

Saturday, April 24
1:00 - 2:00 p.m.

PBLD 18: Starting a Home-Going Peripheral Nerve Catheter Service
Raymond S. Joseph, M.D.
PBLD 19: Practice Management and Billing Issues in Regional Anesthesia
J.C. Gerancher, M.D.
PBLD 20: Evaluating Nerve Injury: Interpretation of EMG & Nerve Conduction Studies
James C. Watson, M.D.
PBLD 21: Regional Anesthesia in the Patient with COPD
William F. Urmey, M.D.
PBLD 22: Analgesic Options in the Parturient with Multiple Sclerosis
Terese T. Horlocker, M.D.
PBLD 23: Contemporary Regional Anesthesia Curriculums: Educating the Regional Anesthesiologists of Tomorrow
Sandra L. Kopp, M.D.
PBLD 24: Regional Anesthesia in Victims of Mass Trauma: Good Practice or Malpractice?
Laura L. Clark, M.D.