Advanced Airway Workshop
The workshop will provide information on usual and unusual laryngoscope blades, handles, light wands, and other stylets/tube exchangers, also blind nasal/oral intubation, percutaneous crico-thyrotomy and retrograde intubation. This one-day workshop will guide you to manage the difficult airway including trans-tracheal jet ventilation and crico-thyrotomy, percutaneous dilational tracheostomy that will be discussed in detail and practiced on pig’s tracheas.
The course will focus on the anatomy and mechanics of the airway adjuncts during the morning session. Participants will have a first-hand experience with all airway devices and will learn how and when to use them.
The afternoon sessions will focus on clinical settings of airway management in different Anesthesia subspecialties settings, i.e., pediatrics, neurosurgery or neuroanesthesia, obstetrics and gynecology, thoracic, ICU, remote locations, cardiac, head and neck, and ENT.
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.