Orthopedic Anesthesia Pain And Rehabilitation Society

Programs: The orthopedic anesthesia pain and rehabilitation society offers annual scientific meetings, as well as other educational programs to ensure dissemination of scientific knowledge with an emphasis-based analysis to support innovative as well as historical modalities. The 2013 annual meeting was held in san francisco, california and focused on providing education to increase the ability of anesthesiologists and other interested health care professionals to perform and/or understand anesthesia and acute postoperative techniques in order to optimize immediate recovery of patients undergoing orthopedic procedures. The intent of the 10th annual conference provided attendees with an update about commonly experienced clinical situations involving both elderly and orthopedic patients. Specialists from the society of geriatric anesthesia (saga) discussed cns dysfunction, risk stratification and the effects on anesthetic depth and the effects on the perioperative outcome of the elderly patient. A second panel provided an update about new minimally invasive spine procedures and presented evidence-based optimal intraoperative and perioperative management of patients undergoing large spine surgeries. A third panel presented the new anticoagulant, rivaroxaban as well as a review of the current oaprs recommendations regarding the performance of regional anesthesia in patients taking anticoagulant medications. The effects of anesthesia on cancer and metastatic disease was presented and discussed. A workshop teaching ultrasound guided peripheral nerve blocks allowed for small group hands-on imaging of neural structures in live models.