The Early Bird Deadline for meeting registration ends on
July 1, so I am reminding all my readers to register for this meeting prior to
that deadline if at all possible, to save money! You may use this link to register for the
meeting: http://www.aset.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3290
Although I am always excited to see the program come
together, I am particularly thrilled with this year’s program highlights.
Let me tell you more about them!
Our Keynote Address will be presented by the Corporate ACEs. The speakers are two ex-military pilots who
still fly commercial aircraft. They have
extensive training in battle readiness and how to communicate effectively when
every second counts and miscommunication can cost lives. We are often in similar situations, when we
communicate with a surgeon in the O.R., or an ICU team while monitoring a
patient. This dynamic presentation will
grab your attention and help you prevent errors in your everyday work.
Our Ellen Grass Lecturer is Stuart Youngner, M.D., an
internationally recognized expert on bio-ethics and author of many articles
about the definition of death. He will
discuss some of the ethical issues surrounding brain death and the decisions
surrounding life support. There have
been unusual cases in the news this year: a pregnant woman kept on life support
with the hopes of allowing her fetus to grow close to term, and a
thirteen-year-old girl with catastrophic complications of a tonsillectomy, when
the parents wanted to continue life support and the hospital did not. Since neurodiagnostic technologists are often
observers of end-of-life situations, this topic will be thought provoking to
us.
We have exciting course lectures too!
Interested in Amyotropic Lateral Sclerosis and other Motor
Neuron Diseases? Check out our NCS course!
We have a special course track on Pediatric Neurodiagnostics,
including lectures on Tuberous Sclerosis and Infantile Spasms.
Some IONM topics that promise to be of special
interest: a panel discussion on gaining
respect and professionalism in the O.R.
or, how about finding the answer to this question: “What makes a neurosurgeon nervous?”!
In our EEG course we have a great discussion on “Emergency
EEGs, The Role of the Technologist through case studies. And how about “Monsters Inside Me: Neurodiagnostic Edition!”
We have saved some great topics for Saturday, our last
day: A discussion about the latest
research in detection and treatment of traumatic brain injury, presented by a
technologist from the Cleveland Clinic, and a half-day mini-course on autonomic
nervous system testing.
You can download and view the meeting brochure at this link:
http://www.aset.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3964
http://www.aset.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3964
