PLAN NOW TO ATTEND THE SAMBA MID YEAR MEETING! - TOP

Friday, October 12, 2007 (one day prior to the ASA)
San Francisco Hilton 

Avoid long onsite registration lines by registering on SAMBA’s Web Site.   Online registration and complete program information is available! Hotel Reservations: Please click on the link to take you directly to the ASA Housing Web Site.  The 22nd Mid Year Meeting is also presented in Adobe Acrobat format.

THE SAMBA CLINICAL OUTCOMES REGISTRY IS HERE: SCOR! - TOP

In an era when regulators are increasingly determining what is ‘best practice’, help SAMBA help YOU to determine what is really best practice.

SCOR will be discussed during the P4P and billing lectures at the SAMBA Mid Year meeting on Friday, October 12th. The database will be on display at the SAMBA booth (#607) in the ASA Exhibit Hall in San Francisco throughout the ASA Annual Meeting, October 13-16th. Come to the SAMBA booth #607 for more information on subscription to the Registry. Charter members will receive a discount.

Simple Data entry: the only equipment needed is a computer with an Internet connection. Data entry is via a user-friendly Web site with simple drop-down menus.

Compliance: The registry provides anonymous and HIPAA compliant data entry and reporting: data will be scrubbed of patient identifiers at the point of entry, leaving all ASCs and their patients protected from identification by any other Center or the database managers.

Outcomes and process measures: automated reports will show you your outcomes and process trends, focusing your quality improvement work where it will really help. Are your turn-around times as short as they should be? Is PONV a problem?

Reports you and your specialty can use:

QA Program Support: participation in the Registry will be a valuable automated tool in your Total Quality Improvement program!

Accreditation: this registry should help your ASC meet standards for quality assessment and improvement programs needed for accreditation.

National Benchmarks and Best Practices: all facilities can compare themselves anonymously to similar sized or same-specialty centers, as well as to the subspecialty as a whole. In addition to value to each facility, the specialty will at last discover national practice and outcome patterns. Designed for ambulatory surgery centers where the entire patient population can be captured in this registry. Also useful for tracking ambulatory patients in practices with mixed inpatient and outpatient cases.

A MESSAGE FROM THE RESIDENTS SECTION CHAIRMAN - TOP

Residents interested in SAMBA are encouraged to contact current resident section chairman Alan Bielsky (alan-bielsky@md.northwestern.edu). The resident section looks forward to continued expansion and involvement in the resident section of SAMBA!

THE USE OF PROPOFOL BY THE NON-ANESTHESIA PROVIDER- TOP

I would like to thank all of you who were able to participate in our last journal club; the Evaluation and Management of the Sniffling Child. Our next real-time broadcast will be on October 9th at 7 PM EST, the topic of discussion will be The Use of Propofol by the Non-Anesthesia Provider. I am inviting anyone who has interest in this topic to join in on the discussion by e-mailing me at jahana@ccf.org. I will send instructions detailing the sign-in process allowing you to participate. Space is severely limited so please e-mail as soon as possible. And again, I challenge all to actively help promote our field and welcome your ideas.

Ali Jahan, MD
Editor of eNewsletter

21ST ANNUAL MEETING OF OPHTHALMIC ANESTHESIA SOCIETY - TOP

September 28-30, 2007
The Conrad Chicago Hotel

Call 805-534-0300 or visit www.EyeAnesthesia.org