Pediatric Sedation Outside of the Operating Room Conference 2010

Pediatric Sedation Outside of the Operating Room
InterContinental Hotel
San Francisco, CA

September 11-12, 2010- Weekend Course
September 13, 2010- Optional Full Simulation Day Workshops

Sponsored by Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School. This multi-specialty represented conference is intended for physicians from all specialties, nurses, nurse practitioners, nurse anesthetists and administrators interested in sedation. Our faculty is from the United States and abroad, and represents a collection of national and internationally-recognized experts. This conference is unique because it attracts a diverse group of national and international attendees as well as faculty- all of whom share an interest in pediatric sedation. We will again offer expanded didactic sessions which will contain multiple, concurrently-run, focused, personalized, specialized afternoon tracks featuring pertinent and timely topics of interests in the field of hospital medicine, state-of-the art sedation practice, pediatric dentistry and nursing. In addition, other afternoon tracks will feature in-depth expansion of topics which include dexmedetomidine, sedation strategies across specialties, emergency medicine, nursing, new sedatives/innovation, shared experiences across the globe, as well as a provocative look at the arts and science of sedation. Group discount for sedation teams. Our didactics will continue to include large general sessions as well as an offering of small, interactive, specialty and topic directed round-table discussions with the faculty and attendees. Key Note Lecture entitled: Celebrating the Human Spirit: The Need to Take Risks" by Michael Brown, director of Farther Than the Eye Can See, documenting the historic ascent of Mt Everest by a blind climber. New This Year: Multispecialty Directed Simulation Workshops- Taught by Multi-Specialty Experts. Pre-Registration is required. Lunch/ Breakfast included. The conference will