ASA 2008 Annual Meeting Highlights CME Web Site

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Welcome to ASA’s 2008 Annual Meeting Highlights CME site. You have the opportunity to earn CME credit for courses presented at ASA’s 2008 Annual Meeting

Enrollment and Registration
Learners may choose to enroll for individual courses, or for the entire menu of courses. ASA members will be asked to register using their member number. Please have this available before proceeding to course registration.

Fees and Payment
ASA Members: $10 per credit hour
Non-Members: $50 per credit hour

Fees are collected when registering. If a course can not be completed in one session, learners may return to the uncompleted course as many times as necessary.

Education and Claiming CME Credit
Each course contains a series of slides and a lecture. Handouts are provided for further study in some courses. When a course is completed, learners will be directed to a brief course evaluation, and a printable CME credit certificate. ASA will record CME credit, and you will receive confirmation of the credit earned via email. CME credit earned by ASA Members is electronically reported to the American Board of Anesthesiology at the beginning of each month. A CME letter of credit may be printed as well.

Accreditation Statement
The American Society of Anesthesiologists is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The American Society of Anesthesiologists designates this educational activity for a maximum of 25.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)^TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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For recordings of presentations at the 2007 meeting, click here.

Online CME Courses

You may register for more than one course at once. Check off as many courses as you want, and click "Add Selected Courses To Cart" below to start the registration process, or click "More Info" next to any course to read more about it.

Advances in Obstetric Anesthesia
David J. Birnbach, MD, MPH
1.00 CME Credits
$10.00 for ASA members, $50.00 for Non-Members

New Modes of Mechanical Ventilatory Support
Michael A. Gropper, MD, PhD, FCCM
0.75 CME Credits
$10.00 for ASA members, $50.00 for Non-Members

Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Diagnosis and Management
Timothy R. Lubenow, MD
0.75 CME Credits
$10.00 for ASA members, $50.00 for Non-Members

New Pharmacology Options in Ambulatory Surgery
Peter Glass, MD, Frances Chung, MD, Walter G. Maurer, MD, Steven L. Shafer, MD
2.00 CME Credits
$10.00 for ASA members, $50.00 for Non-Members

Myths in Pediactric Anesthesiology
Zeev N. Kain, MD, MBA, MA (hon), FAAP
0.75 CME Credits
$10.00 for ASA members, $50.00 for Non-Members

Chemical Dependency In Anesthesiologists
Arnold J. Berry, MD, MPH
0.75 CME Credits
$10.00 for ASA members, $50.00 for Non-Members

Staffing and Case Scheduling For Out of the OR Cases
Alex Macario, MD, MBA
0.75 CME Credits
$10.00 for ASA members, $50.00 for Non-Members

Anesthesia and Functional Brain Mapping
Barbara Van de Wiele, MD
0.75 CME Credits
$10.00 for ASA members, $50.00 for Non-Members

Bariactric Surgery: Knowns, Unknowns, and What to Anticipate When These Surgical Patients Arrive At Your Hospital
Peggy G. Duke, MD, Jonathan Ketzler, MD, Prith Peiris, MD, Brian McGlinch, MD
2.00 CME Credits
$10.00 for ASA members, $50.00 for Non-Members

Anesthesia For The Pregnant Patient Undergoing Non-Obstetric Surgery
Joy L. Hawkins, MD
0.75 CME Credits
$10.00 for ASA members, $50.00 for Non-Members

Misunderstandings in Neuroanesthesia: (How may I hurt thee? Let me count the ways.)
John C. Drummond, MD, FRCPC
0.75 CME Credits
$10.00 for ASA members, $50.00 for Non-Members

Upper Extremity Regional Anesthesia - Essentials of Our Current Understanding
Joseph M. Neal, MD
0.75 CME Credits
$10.00 for ASA members, $50.00 for Non-Members

Professionalism, Ethics, and Law in Anesthesiology & Critical Care
Carl C. Hug, Jr., MD, PhD
0.75 CME Credits
$10.00 for ASA members, $50.00 for Non-Members

Neuroanesthesia and Cardiac Anesthesia Issues
Hilary P. Grocott, MD, FRCPC, FASE, Vesna Jevtovic-Todorvic, MD, PhD, Joseph P. Matthew, MD, MHSc., Mark F. Newman, MD
2.00 CME Credits
$10.00 for ASA members, $50.00 for Non-Members

Multimodal Analgesia and the acute pain patient: Beyond catheters and LAs
John C. Rowlingson, MD., May L. Chin, MD., Richard W. Rosenquist, MD., Christopher L. Wu, MD.
2.00 CME Credits
$10.00 for ASA members, $50.00 for Non-Members

Strategies for Success in One-Lung Anesthesia
Jerome M. Klafta, MD
0.75 CME Credits
$10.00 for ASA members, $50.00 for Non-Members

Emery A. Rovenstine -Memorial Lecture 2008
Ronald D. Miller, MD.
0.75 CME Credits
$10.00 for ASA members, $50.00 for Non-Members

How Will Pay for Performance Impact Ambulatory Anesthesia?
Lucinda Everett, MD.
0.75 CME Credits
$10.00 for ASA members, $50.00 for Non-Members

Perioperative Care of the Patient with Renal Dysfunction
Robert N. Sladen, MD.
0.75 CME Credits
$10.00 for ASA members, $50.00 for Non-Members

Strategies to Reduce Cardiac Risk For Noncardiac Surgery
Lee A. Fleisher, MD.
0.75 CME Credits
Complimentary for ASA members, $50.00 for Non-Members

An Algorythmic Approach to Neuropathic Pain
Richard L. Rauck, MD.
0.75 CME Credits
$10.00 for ASA members, $50.00 for Non-Members

The ASA Translational Science Lecture
John W. Severinghaus, MD.
0.75 CME Credits
$10.00 for ASA members, $50.00 for Non-Members

Spinal Injections for the Diagnosis & Treatment of Chronic Pain
B. Todd Sitzman, MD, MPH
0.75 CME Credits
$10.00 for ASA members, $50.00 for Non-Members

Perioperative Management of the Patient with Respiratory Disease
David O. Warner, MD.
0.75 CME Credits
$10.00 for ASA members, $50.00 for Non-Members

Celebral Protection by Hypothermia and Anesthetics: New Insights into Mechanisms and Applications
William L. Lanier, MD.
0.75 CME Credits
$10.00 for ASA members, $50.00 for Non-Members

Evidence vs. Experience: Making Better Decisions
Avery Tung, MD.
0.75 CME Credits
$10.00 for ASA members, $50.00 for Non-Members

Anesthetic Effects on the Fetus and Newborn
Scott Segal, MD.
1.00 CME Credits
$10.00 for ASA members, $50.00 for Non-Members

For recordings of presentations at the 2007 meeting, click here.