SNACC 48th Annual Meeting

Mission of SNACC
The mission of the Society for Neuroscience in Anesthesiology and Critical Care is to advance the art and science of the care of the neurologically impaired patient.

Statement of Need 
The 48^th Society of Neuroscience in Anesthesiology and Critical Care Annual Meeting brings a program designed to review and update the educational needs and practice gaps of neuroanesthesiologists and neurocritical care specialists who engage in providing care to the neurologically impaired patients / patients at risk of neurologic injury during the perioperative period as well as neuroscientists who research clinical and basic neuroscience. The workshops, seminars, lectures and poster presentations will specifically address new clinical findings essential to improve the care of patients and advance basic and clinical research in neuroscience. Physicians will learn the current standards of the methodology of evaluating the existing clinical evidence/research in neuroanesthesia and neurocritical care and become ready for translation to clinical practice and clinical guidelines. Many clinicians have not been educated on the implementation science. This new science emphasizes how physician adheres to the clinical guidelines to their practice. Physicians will receive the latest discovery on neuroinflammation, technological advancement/new tools used to assess the cerebropathophysiology in the operating room and neurointensive care units. Physicians need to develop consensus on patient safety in complex multilevel spine surgery in geriatric patients.

The program is designed to be useful for both the general anesthesiologist who is occasionally facing a neurologically impaired patient as well as regular neuroanesthesia and neurocritical care specialist.

Target Audience
The SNACC 48th Annual Meeting has been designed to meet the educational needs of neurosurgical and critical care anesthesiologists and neuroscientists involved in the care of patients with neurological disorders and are intended for neurosurgical and critical care anesthesiologists, neuroscientists, faculty, residents, fellows and medical students. The society supports the attendance by members in the educational sessions of the Annual Meeting. The program is generated from member requests and an assessment of need by the program committee.

Attendance at this meeting does not guarantee competency or proficiency in the performance of any procedures which may be discussed or taught during the course.

Learning Objectives – At the conclusion of this activity, participants should be able to:

• Apply the clinical guidelines and how to effectively adhere to the recommendation to manage patients with neurological disorders.
• Manage neurological emergencies guided by the information learned from different modalities of neuromonitoring.
• Discuss recent advances and controversies in neuroanesthesiology practice including an emphasis on patient safety.
• Discuss recent advances and discoveries in neurosciences and their impact on anesthesiology.

Educational Format
The live virtual format combines workshops, presentations by subject experts, interactive symposia and scientific abstract presentations with attendee participation in ways best suited for learning the content.

Participation in the SNACC 48th Annual Meeting
Attendance shall be open to all health practitioners, provided that they have registered for the meeting. AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ will be offered to MDs. DOs need to take their certificate and apply to the AOA as required. A completed Physician Verification of Attendance form must be submitted at the conclusion of the meeting.

Accreditation and Designation Statements
The American Society of Anesthesiologists designates this Other (Live and Enduring Material) activity for a maximum of 17.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Maintenance of Certification in Anesthesiology^TM program and MOCA^® are registered trademarks of The American Board of Anesthesiology^®. MOCA 2.0^® is a trademark of the American Board of Anesthesiology^®.

This activity offers up to 17.75 CME credits, of which 2.50 credit(s) contribute to the patient safety CME component of the American Board of Anesthesiology’s redesigned Maintenance of Certification in Anesthesiology^TM (MOCA^®) program, known as MOCA 2.0^®. Please consult the ABA website, www.theABA.org, for a list of all MOCA 2.0 requirements.

The deadline for claiming credit for this live activity is Dec. 31, 2020, 11:59 p.m. CT.

Disclaimer
The information provided at this CME activity is for continuing education purposes only and is not meant to substitute for the independent medical judgment of a healthcare provider relative to diagnostic and treatment options of a specific patient’s medical condition.

Disclosure Statement
The American Society of Anesthesiologists remains strongly committed to providing the best available evidence-based clinical information to participants of this educational activity and requires an open disclosure of any potential conflict of interest identified by our faculty members. It is not the intent of the American Society of Anesthesiologists to eliminate all situations of potential conflict of interest, but rather to enable those who are working with the American Society of Anesthesiologists to recognize situations that may be subject to question by others. All disclosed conflicts of interest are reviewed by the educational activity course director/chair to ensure that such situations are properly evaluated and, if necessary, resolved. The American Society of Anesthesiologists educational standards pertaining to conflict of interest are intended to maintain the professional autonomy of the clinical experts inherent in promoting a balanced presentation of science. Through our review process, all American Society of Anesthesiologists activities are ensured of independent, objective, scientifically balanced presentations of information. Disclosure of any or no relationships will be made available for all educational activities.

Disclosures

All other planners, faculty, and staff have disclosed no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests.

How to Claim Credit

Please follow these directions to complete the evaluation, claim your credit and print your certificate. The date on your certificate will reflect the date upon which you claim credit. The certificate can only be claimed once.

Click the following link and log in using your ASA credentials: https://education.asahq.org/totara/course/view.php?id=3657

Complete the evaluation, claim credits, and print your certificate.

OR

Log in to the ASA Education Center at: http://education.asahq.org

Once you have logged on to the ASA Education Center homepage, click the tab that says “MY COURSES” to select the link: SNACC 48th Annual Meeting

Complete the evaluation, claim credits, and print your certificate.

FORGOTTEN PASSWORD?

You can retrieve your username and/or password, by entering the email addressed used to create your ASA account email address at: https://www.asahq.org/member-center/forgot-password

PLEASE NOTE: you can only claim credit one time and you must claim your credits for this course by December 31, 2020. You will NOT be able to claim credits after this date.

MOCA®

By attending the following symposium, you are eligible to receive up to 2.75 credits that may be applied towards MOCA^® Part 2: Patient Safety requirements.

Crisis Management Didactic Course

Americans with Disabilities Act

The Society for Neuroscience in Anesthesiology and Critical Care has fully complied with the legal requirements of the ADA and the rules and regulations thereof. If any participant in this educational activity is in need of accessible accommodations, please contact SNACC at (804) 565-6360 for assistance.

Click here to register now!

Special Non-Member Offer
SNACC is excited to offer a special rate for registrants from the World Bank Group B and C countries that includes one year of SNACC membership along with the Virtual Meeting. To see if you qualify for Group B or Group C please click here.

Current SNACC members and non-members from Group A countries do not qualify for this offer.

SNACC’s 48^th Annual Meeting has applied for and been granted additional credit as we changed our content to on-demand format for learners to view after the meeting ends. This will allow you to access and learn from all sessions, even if they ran concurrently.

For example, you can attend Track 1, Crisis Management Didactic Course live on Friday and go back later to learn from Track 2, Basic Science of Neurovascular Unit and Track 3, Clinical Science Symposium. However, you may only claim credit ONCE for the 48^th Annual Meeting so please wait until you have completed all your learning before claiming CME. Evaluation and credit claiming will open on Sunday, September 13 after the meeting. You have until December 31, 2020 to claim CME for this meeting.

The patient safety information will show up once registrants complete their evaluation.

The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) will send an email to all attendees and will offer details on how to claim credit. For more information please read the General Information section on this page of the SNACC website. Added information is also listed below on how to claim credit:

Please follow these directions to complete the evaluation, claim your credit and print your certificate. The date on your certificate will reflect the date upon which you claim credit. The certificate can only be claimed once.

• Click the following link and log in using your ASA credentials: https://education.asahq.org/totara/course/view.php?id=3657
• Complete the evaluation, claim credits, and print your certificate.

OR

• Log in to the ASA Education Center at: http://education.asahq.org
• Once you have logged on to the ASA Education Center homepage, click the tab that says “MY COURSES” to select the link: SNACC 48th Annual Meeting
• Complete the evaluation, claim credits, and print your certificate.

Click here for information on Exhibits

You can join ALL Sessions from the Virtual Platform

Several of the Interactive Sessions will be run through Zoom. Please keep the following tips in mind as you engage with these sessions:

• It is recommended that you familiarize yourself with Zoom prior to the Virtual Annual Meeting. If you have not used Zoom before, you will need to download and install the latest version of the Zoom Application on your computer or laptop. Click here and from the Download Center, click on the Download button under “Zoom Client For Meetings”. This application will automatically download when you start your first Zoom Meeting.

• If you have already downloaded Zoom, you will only need to log in to the Virtual Meeting Platform using the email address you used to register. Navigate to the Agenda page and select the session you wish to join in order to be connected. Sessions run through Zoom will automatically begin through your Zoom app.

• If you are unfamiliar with Zoom and would like to schedule a time to practice with the SNACC office in advance of the Meeting, or would like a walkthrough of the Virtual Meeting Platform, please contact cheryn@societyhq.com.

• Please be courteous to the presenters and keep your microphone on Mute unless called upon to speak. Moderators may recognize those who submit questions in order to take their turn to speak. Press and hold the Space bar to temporarily unmute yourself when asking your question. Please know that utilizing video chat is not required and may help to preserve your internet bandwidth.

• Please make use of the Chat feature to ask questions. After each presentation, the moderator will be monitoring the chat for questions from attendees. Any questions submitted will be verbally directed to the presenter to discuss.

The SNACC Planning Committee extends a big thank-you to all who have contributed to the 48^th Annual Meeting.

		Program Chair William M. Armstead, PhD University of Pennsylvania Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
		President Deepak Sharma, MBBS, MD, DM Virginia & Prentice Bloedel Professor & Division Chief Neuroanesthesiology & Perioperative Neurosciences University of Washington Harborview Medical Center Seattle, Washington
		President-Elect Chanannait Paisansathan, MD, MHA University of Illinois Chicago, Illinois
		Secretary-Treasurer Alana Flexman, MD, FRCPC Vancouver Acute Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Care University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC Canada
		Immediate Past President Rafi Avitsian, MD Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, Ohio
		Arnoley S. Abcejo, MD Mayo Clinic Rochester, Minnesota
		Max B. Kelz, MD, PhD University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
		Ines P. Koerner, MD, PhD Oregon Health Sciences University Portland, Oregon

Don't forget to return here after the meeting to complete the Evaluations. Your input is important for future SNACC Annual Meetings and virtual events!