CANA 2007 Spring Conference Recap

The Spring 2007 CANA meeting held recently in Sacramento brought together a good number of your California CRNA colleagues and students, and a great group of speakers. In addition, the venue in the heart of Old Town Sacramento offered an excellent mix of interesting activities for family members, a comfortable atmosphere by the Sacramento River, a variety of fine restaurants, and beautiful weather. We hope you will take the time to view the PowerPoint Presentations that have been graciously shared by our speakers.

Please join us for the Fall 2007 meeting October 5-7 at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Redondo Beach

AANA Mission: Advance Patient Safety and Excellence in Anesthesia
Jeffery M. Beutler CRNA MS - Executive Director, AANA

An excellent and wide ranging discussion from Mr. Beutler on a variety of aspects of the modern health care landscape in the US, and how well CRNAs fit into the present and future. Included were such topics as:

• The overall guiding principle in healthcare systems: VALUE = ACCESS + QUALITY / COST
   
• Forming broad multi-disciplinary coalitions, such as Council on Surgical and Perioperative Safety http://www.patientsafetyfirst.org/healthcare
   
• Pay for Performance http://www.pfpsummit.com
   
• The advent of the electronic medical record (EMR) and system-wide analysis through standardized terms (SNOMED)
  http://www.snomed.org
   
• CRNA and nursing doctoral programs: AANA position paper due out soon
   
• Translating research into practice through more vivid educational techniques: Film vignettes, simulators, etc.
   
• Wellness publications available from AANA: Wearing Masks DVD -  Click Here to view the movie. Also the new Bernadette Roche book Substance Abuse Policies for Anesthesia, on the anesthesia department manager’s and faculty’s approach to impaired providers. http://www.allanesthesia.com/Ordering_Info.html

As always, thanks for their support to our many fine exhibitors