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Palm Springs Oasis in the Desert Encore Symposium 2025
February 24-27
An Encore to Lifelong Learning
Monday, February 24th, 2025
| 6:30AM - 7:00AM |
Registration and Sunny California Buffet Breakfast
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| 6:55AM - 7:00AM |
Introductions and Welcome to Enhanced Recertification Prep Day!
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| 7:00AM - 8:00AM |
Airway Management: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
- Kevin Driscoll, DNP, MSN, CRNA
NBCRNA Core Domains
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| 8:00AM - 9:00AM |
Comfortably Numb: A Review of Local Anesthetic Management
- Ryan Shores, DNP, CRNA
NBCRNA Core Domains
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| 9:00AM - 10:00AM |
Navigating Anesthesia Care for the Patient with Pulmonary Hypertension
- William Brewster Boyden, DNP MBA, CRNA
NBCRNA Core Domains
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| 10:00AM - 10:15AM |
Refreshment Break at the Oasis
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| 10:15AM - 11:15AM |
Sepsis: Implications for Anesthetic Management
- Kimberly Westra, CRNA, DNP, MSN, APRN, MBAc
NBCRNA Core Domains
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| 11:15AM - 12:15PM |
OB Anesthesia Care: Critical Anesthesia Scenarios
- Kimberly Westra, CRNA, DNP, MSN, APRN, MBAc
NBCRNA Core Domains
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| 12:15PM - 1:15PM |
Lifelong Learning Future Concepts. What’s on the Tip of the Spear in Anesthesia
- Anesthesia After Hours ES Team: Ryan Shores, DNP, CRNA, Mark Talon, DNP, MSN, CRNA, Kimberly Westra, CRNA, DNP, MSN, APRN, MBAc
NBCRNA Core Domains
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| 1:15PM - 2:15PM |
"Anesthesia After Hours": FREE Class B Credit, Hors D'Oeuvres, Cash Bar
- Anesthesia After Hours ES Team: Ryan Shores, DNP, CRNA, Mark Talon, DNP, MSN, CRNA, Kimberly Westra, CRNA, DNP, MSN, APRN, MBAc
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Tuesday, February 25th, 2025
| 6:30AM - 7:00AM |
Registration and Sunny California Buffet Breakfast
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| 7:00AM - 8:00AM |
Anesthesia and Cancer Recurrence: What We Do MATTERS
- Kimberly Westra, CRNA, DNP, MSN, APRN, MBAc
NBCRNA Core Domains
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| 8:00AM - 9:00AM |
Use of Low Flow Anesthesia: Reduction in Cost, Waste, and Environmental Impact
- Ryan Shores, DNP, CRNA
NBCRNA Core Domains
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| 9:00AM - 10:00AM |
Hypothermia: Incidence, Implications, Interventions
- Ryan Shores, DNP, CRNA
NBCRNA Core Domains
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| 10:00AM - 10:15AM |
Refreshment Break at the Oasis
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| 10:15AM - 11:15AM |
Legal Conundrum from a CRNA Witness: Pharmacologic Interventions and Documentation
- Kevin Driscoll, DNP, MSN, CRNA
NBCRNA Core Domains
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| 11:15AM - 12:15PM |
Thromboelastographyn (TEG)
- Kevin Driscoll, DNP, MSN, CRNA
NBCRNA Core Domains
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| 12:15PM - 1:15PM |
Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair of Mitral Valves for Severe Mitral Regurgitation
- William Brewster Boyden, DNP MBA, CRNA
NBCRNA Core Domains
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Wednesday, February 26th, 2025
| 6:30AM - 7:00AM |
Registration and Sunny California Buffet Breakfast
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| 7:00AM - 8:00AM |
Trauma Resuscitation in the OR: Lessons from Home and Abroad
- Ryan Shores, DNP, CRNA
NBCRNA Core Domains
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| 8:00AM - 9:00AM |
The Future of AI and Implications for Anesthesia Practice
- William Brewster Boyden, DNP MBA, CRNA
NBCRNA Core Domains
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| 9:00AM - 10:00AM |
Cardiac Pharmacology and Physiology for the Non-cardiac Patient
- William Brewster Boyden, DNP MBA, CRNA
NBCRNA Core Domains
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| 10:00AM - 10:15AM |
Refreshment Break at the Oasis
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| 10:15AM - 11:15AM |
What is the Future of Medicine: From Those Mandated to Create It
- Kevin Driscoll, DNP, MSN, CRNA
NBCRNA Core Domains
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| 11:15AM - 12:15PM |
Non-opioid Anesthesia: A Look at Multi-Modal Therapy
- Kevin Driscoll, DNP, MSN, CRNA
NBCRNA Core Domains
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Thursday, February 27th, 2025
| 6:30AM - 7:00AM |
Registration and Sunny California Buffet Breakfast
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| 7:00AM - 8:00AM |
Anesthesia for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement and Transcatheter Mitral Valve
- William Brewster Boyden, DNP MBA, CRNA
NBCRNA Core Domains
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| 8:00AM - 9:00AM |
Cardiac Anesthesia Basics for the NON-Cardiac CRNA: Pearls for the Everyday Anesthesia Provider
- William Brewster Boyden, DNP MBA, CRNA
NBCRNA Core Domains
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| 9:00AM - 10:00AM |
Pharmacologic Update: Recent and Future Drugs and Delivery
- Ryan Shores, DNP, CRNA
NBCRNA Core Domains
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| 10:00AM - 10:15AM |
Refreshment Break at the Oasis
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| 10:15AM - 11:15AM |
Occupational Hazards in the OR
- Ryan Shores, DNP, CRNA
NBCRNA Core Domains
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| 11:15AM - 12:15PM |
PONV: What is the Evidence
- Kevin Driscoll, DNP, MSN, CRNA
NBCRNA Core Domains
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