Save the weekend of February 12-13, 2011 for the Oregon Society of Anesthesiologists’ Winter Ski and CME meeting in Bend, Oregon. We will be hosting the meeting at the Seventh Mountain Resort, only a few minutes drive to Mount Bachelor Ski Resort. Our agenda will allow plenty of time for winter activities, with sessions in the morning and early evening.

Check back soon for additional details on speakers, lodging and other information about the meeting this fall.

June 27, 2010

Save the Date: December 5, 2010!!!

The Oregon Society of Anesthesiologists and the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at Oregon Health and Science University will be hosting the Frederick P. Haugen, M.D. Lecture this coming December. Dr. Alexander Hannenberg, currently the President of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, will discuss "Healthcare Reform and Anesthesiology."

The lecture and reception will occur in the early afternoon (approximately 2 pm) on December 5, 2010 at the Oregon Medical Association Building (11740 SW 68th Parkway), which is just off of Exit 293 on I-5 (easy access from the North and South. Admission will be free for all OSA and ASA members (living in Oregon or Washington).

There will be ample time to interact with Dr. Hannenberg and colleagues throughout our region.

We will provide updates on the Oregon Society of Anesthesiologists Web site at http://osaonline.org and deliver the occasional email update as well.

We look forward to seeing you there.

The Haugen Lecture Planning Committee

Jeffrey Kirsch, M.D.
Frank Palmrose, M.D.
Joanne Jene, M.D.
Kirk Lalwani, M.D.
Grace Chen, M.D.

Members of the OSA may download the handouts from the Home Pump panel held at the 2010 Salishan Spring Meeting. Dr. Horn, Swide and Cohen covered the science behind continuous nerve blocks, the organizational challenges of establishing a home pump program, and the coding necessary to get paid for doing this work. Click here to access the download link (sign-in required).

The OSA Spring Meeting at Salishan has been accredited to grant up to 6.5 hours of Category 1 continuing medical education credit. We have a great program planned. Join us for a great meeting on the Oregon coast on May 15 and 16.

The brochure and registration information for the Salishan Spring Meeting should be arriving in your mail box in the next few days. If you can't wait, never fear, as you can download it here as a PDF file.

Come join us for an outstanding meeting covering a variety of important topics. Make your reservations soon to take advantage of our special block room rates, and register for the meeting with the form on the brochure. Finally, plan on joining us for our annual golf outing and wine tasting event on Saturday.

See you soon!

Frank Palmrose, M.D., President-elect of the Oregon Society of Anesthesiologists, is pleased to present the tentative schedule for the 2010 OSA Spring Meeting. As previously announced, this meeting will be held the weekend of May 15-16, 2010 at the Salishan Resort in Gleneden Beach, Oregon.

The days are getting longer here in Oregon, and that means that the Oregon Society’s Spring Meeting is rapidly approaching. It will be held at the Salishan Lodge in Gleneden Beach, Oregon the weekend of May 15-16.

A number of those attending requested links to the references cited at the Oregon Perioperative Quality Summit presentations.

• Oregon Patient Safety Commission White Paper on Glycemic Control as cited by Dr. Sheppard
• Hall BL, Hamilton BH, Richards K, Bilimoria KY, Cohen ME, Ko CY. Does surgical quality improve in the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program: an evaluation of all participating hospitals. Ann Surg. 2009;250:363-376. as cited by Dr. Ko
• ASA Newsletter Critical Care focus issue September, 2009 as cited by Dr. Brambrink
• Norm Cohen's presentation on national quality initiatives

The brochure for the Oregon Perioperative Quality Summit will be in your mailbox in the next few days. If you can't wait, you can download it here.

Make your reservations today and help us define our own future when it comes to quality in perioperative medicine and surgery.

To learn more about the meeting, please see this article.

Your Opportunity to Guide Perioperative Quality Improvement in Oregon

The Oregon Society of Anesthesiologists and the Oregon Chapter of the American College of Surgeons invite you to the first Oregon Perioperative Quality Summit in Bend, Oregon the weekend of October 3-4, 2009. With so much attention being paid to healthcare reform, a focus on cost over quality seems to be dominating. This joint meeting is open to anesthesiologists, surgeons and others with an interest in perioperative care. The goals are to provide background information on national and local efforts in quality improvement, the role of registries, electronic medical records (EMR) and other tools to collect and analyze outcomes data, and to review recent improvements in intensive care that may be applicable to the spectrum of perioperative care.

With this background in hand, the attendees will participate in wide-ranging discussions to identify opportunities for perioperative quality improvement in Oregon and then help establish priorities for future efforts tailored to the needs of Oregonians. Based on these decisions, the course organizers will be preparing a "white paper" summarizing the results of this meeting. As opportunities present, we will use these findings to help assure that policymakers understand the needs and assessments of those of us directly involved in patient care.