You are here: Home Education For Staff and Health Care Professionals Continuing Medical Education Seminars Obstetric Anesthesia Conference
Document Actions

9th Annual Obstetric Anesthesia Conference

  

Date

Location

September 16 & 17, 2011

Mount Sinai Hospital
Ben Sadowski Auditorium, 18th Floor
600 University Avenue
Toronto, ON, Canada

   

Program

Friday, September 16

14:00 - 17:00

Workshop:
Use of Ultrasound in Obstetric Anesthesia
(limited to 40 participants)

14:00 - 15:00
Mini-lectures
Physics of ultrasound and image interpretation: Mrinalini Balki
Vascular access: Eric Goldszmidt
Lumbar spine assessment: Jose Carvalho
IIIH block and TAP block: Paul Wieczorek
15:00 - 5:15 Coffee/Tea
15:15 - 16:45 Hands-on (phantoms and live models)
Coordinator:  Jose Carvalho

Station 1: needling techniques: Leyla Bagirzadeh and Javier Cubillos
Station 2: vascular access: Eric Goldszmidt and Naveed Siddiqui
Station 3: spinal ultrasound: Mrinalini Balki, Cristian Arzola, and Yayoi Ohashi
Station 4: IIIH block and TAP block: Paul Wieczorek and Clarita Margarido
16:45 - 17:00 Evaluation & Adjournment

 

Saturday, September 17

7:00 - 7:50

Registration and Breakfast

7:50 - 8:00
Opening Remarks
08:00 - 10:00 Session I
Getting New Moms Ready to Rock: Keep them Fueled, Pain-free and Happy
Moderator:  Jose Carvalho
08:00 - 08:30 Hemoglobin issues
Anne Grand’Maison
08:30 - 09:00

Pain issues
Alison Macarthur

09:00 - 09:30 Mood issues
Beverly Young
09:30 - 10:00 Q&A
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:30 Session II
Grey Areas in Obstetric Analgesia
Moderator:   Mrinalini Balki
10:30 - 11:00 Analgesia for 2nd trimester termination of pregnancy
Leyla Bagirzadeh
11:00 - 11:30 Analgesia for external cephalic version
Cristian Arzola
11:30 - 12:00 Nutrition in labor
Paul Wieczorek
12:00 - 12:30 Q&A
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch (Cafeteria - 2nd floor)
Coffee and Dessert (Auditorium Foyer – 18th floor)
13:30 - 15:30 Session III

Saving Mothers’ Lives: Reviewing Maternal Deaths to Make Motherhood Safer: 2006-2008
Moderator:  Alison Macarthur

13:30 - 14:00 Medical/Obstetric causes of maternal death
Shital Gandhi
14:00 - 14:30

Anesthetic causes of maternal death
Isabel Devito

14:30 - 15:00 Management of cardiac arrest in pregnancy
Farida Jeejeebhoy
15:00 - 15:30 Q&A
15:30 Evaluation & Adjournment


 
Fees (CDN$) (OHST applicable)

Fee Group Fees
Pre-Conference Workshop  (Physicians & Anesthesia Assistants) $180.00
Conference - Physician Specialists $140.00
Conference - Students, Residents, Fellows, AAs, RTs, Nurses, Midwives and other health professionals $70.00
  • Registration fees include breakfast and lunch (conference), and coffee breaks (conference & workshop)
      

For further information contact:

Lourdes Webster
Mount Sinai Hospital
Room 781
416-586-4800, ext. 2931
obanesthesia@mtsinai.on.ca