CME - Louisiana Society of Anesthesiologists

2025 LSA Annual Meeting March 21 - 22, 2025

Target Audience

This meeting is designed for Anesthesiologists, Nurses, Residents/Fellows and Medical Students.

Objectives

At the conclusion of this activity participants will:

• Describe historical events leading to perioperative fasting

• Recall physiology of digestion and pulmonary aspiration

• Apply published data in order to synthesize a management approach when assessing aspiration risk • Recognizing the signs and symptoms of vasoplegia

• Develop a treatment plan for dealing with vasoplegia

• Explore future directions and new strategies for treatment of vasoplegia

• Identify some of the unique conditions on L&D that lead to maternal hemorrhage

• Predict how the obstetricians will diagnosis hemorrhage and the unique treatments they might use • Internalize unique anesthetic management strategies to be used for obstetric hemorrhage • Utilize Crew Resource Management to improve health care

• Strive to make medicine a High-Reliability process

• Recognize how aviation safety differs from medicine and why

• Describe the activities and purpose of the American Society of Anesthesiologists

• Utilize the resources provided by the ASA

• Contribute to the future of anesthesiology

Accreditation & Designation Statements

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) and the Louisiana Society of Anesthesiologists (LSA).

The American Society of Anesthesiologists is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The American Society of Anesthesiologists designates this live activity for a maximum of 5.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Commercial Support Acknowledgement

The CME activity is not supported by any educational grants from ineligible companies.

Disclosure Policy

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 CME 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

Name	Role	Interest	Ineligible Company
Corry Kucik	Faculty	Stock	ROM Technologies, Inc.

Randall Clark	Faculty	Consultant	Medtronic, Inc.
Yashar Eshraghi, MD	Abstract Presenter	Funded Research and Advisory Services Materials Development	Saluda
		Advisory Services Materials Development	SPR
		Research consultant	Autonomous Healthcare
		Funded Institutional Research	AVANOS, SPR, SGX/Medtronic

All of the relevant financial relationships listed for these individuals have been mitigated.

All other planners, faculty, reviewers, and staff have disclosed no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.

Disclaimer

The information provided at this activity is for continuing medical 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.

CME Claim

To claim credit for the 2025 LSA Annual Meeting:

All communication is sent to the email listed on your ASA account. If your email has changed, please log in and update it before the end of the meeting. Credit claiming emails will be sent 3 business days after the final registration list is received from LSA.

CLAIMING CREDIT

Complete the evaluation.
Click on the certificate, enter the credit you are claiming.
Print your certificate or save it as a PDF for your files.

It is highly recommended that you claim credit within two weeks of receiving the credit claiming email. The deadline for claiming credit for this live activity is December 31, 2025, 11:59 p.m. CT.

CME BREAKDOWN

Total | 5.25 credits