Advanced Airway Symposium
The Airway Symposium will provide information and instruction to anesthesia providers on current evidence-based approaches to difficult and challenging airway problems. This one-day symposium has morning lectures and afternoon workshops designed to maximize your learning.
The course will focus on airway problems encountered in and out of the operating room. Attendees may participate in additional break-out sessions. The simulation center will challenge the most experienced provider. Advanced Cardiac Life Support recertification specifically for the anesthesia provider already expert in airway management can be taken expeditiously following completion of the web-based education module prior to arrival at the symposium.
Iowa Conference for Hyperbaric Applications and Treatments (Iowa CHAT)
The purpose of this program is to provide a forum to educate health care providers regarding treatment options and indications for hyperbaric therapy. This program will also provide updates on evidence based practice and treatments related to hyperbaric medicine. Attendees will increase their awareness of hyperbaric medicine and wound care. The conference should be attended by family practice physicians, podiatrists, oral surgeons, plastic surgeons, vascular surgeons, internists, emergency room physicians, certified hyperbaric technologists, registered respiratory therapists, registered nurses and any other health care practitioner who may be involved in patient care utilizing hyperbaric medicine.
Iowa Anesthesia Symposium
The purpose of this program is to provide an update on regional blocks and ultrasound techniques, management of the SICU patient in the OR, anesthetic management of the unstable cervical spine patient, management of the difficult pediatric airway and transesophageal echocardiography. Attendees will improve and enhance their skills related to regional anesthesia, pediatric airway management and transesophageal echocardiography.
Iowa International Anesthesia Symposium
The purpose of this program is to provide updates and demonstrations on both regional blocks and fiberoptic bronchoscopy techniques for occasional practitioners, as well as to provide information and updates on regional anesthesia for pediatric patients, thoracic anesthesia techniques for non-thoracic anesthesiologists, neuro-anesthesia techniques for non-neuro anesthesiologists and post-anesthesia recovery care for SICU patients.
Operations Research
Participants in this course will learn how to apply the principles of operations research and management science to solve real-world problems in the operating room and perioperative environment:
- Monitoring the operational and financial performance of a surgical suite,
- Formulating problems in the perioperative setting that can be solved using operations research,
- Applying the principles of operations research to solve common problems, such as issues involved in planning of block time, case scheduling and assignments, staffing levels, financial management, and strategic planning,
- Identifying in-house expertise to aid in problem-solving and determining whether outside consultants are needed,
- Evaluating current decision-support systems.
Regional Anesthesia Study Center of Iowa (RASCI)
RASCI Workshops offer hands-on basic and advanced workshops in regional anesthesia. Anesthetic anatomy is cadaver-based anesthetic anatomy. Demonstration of all the surface anatomy and actual blocks and catheter techniques are on human volunteers. Thereafter these blocks and catheter techniques are practiced on anesthetized pigs.
To see the dates of upcoming workshops go to the RASCI Registration Form.