FRIDAY May 2, 2008
06:30AM Registration & Continental Breakfast
07:00AM Joe Williams, PhD, CRNA
Wellness: General Nutrition and Fitness*
08:00AM Joe Williams, PhD, CRNA
Evidenced Based Practice:
A Journal Review of Selected Articles*
09:00AM Wanda Wilson, PhD, CRNA
AANA President
LMAs: Airway Management and Inhaled Anesthetics*
10:00AM Exhibits & Refreshments
10:15AM Wanda Wilson, PhD, CRNA
AANA President
Update on Postoperative Ischemic Optic Neuropathy
11:15AM James Walker, MS, CRNA
AANA Region Seven Director
Reversal Revisited: Sugammadex Shines**
12:15PM Box Lunches
12:30PM James Walker, MS, CRNA
AANA Region Seven Director
Pulmonary Embolus: Virchow’s Triad Revisited
13:30PM Art Zwerling, DNP, DAAPM, CRNA
Cardioprotective Strategies*
14:30PM Adjourn

SATURDAY May 3, 2008
06:30AM Registration & Continental Breakfast
07:00AM Art Zwerling, DNP, DAAPM, CRNA
Issues in Chemical Dependency and Substance Abuse Part 1*
08:00AM Art Zwerling, DNP, DAAPM, CRNA
Issues in Chemical Dependency and Substance Abuse Part 2
09:00AM Genell Lee, JD, RN
Executive Director, Alabama Board of Nursing
Advanced Practice Nursing
10:00AM Exhibits & Refreshments
10:15AM David Gleason, BHS, CRNA
Targeted Sedation and the Use of Precedex**
11:15AM Jim Walker, MS, CRNA
Sleep Apnea: Beware
12:15PM Box Lunches
12:30PM Wanda Wilson, PhD, CRNA
AANA President
AANA Update
13:30PM ALANA President’s Address & Business Meeting
14:30PM Adjourn
15:30PM “Takin’ It To The Beach” – Party

SUNDAY May 4, 2008
06:30AM Registration & Continental Breakfast
07:00AM Kenneth Plitt, MBA, CRNA
Consciousness Monitoring Update: Fad or Fixture?
08:00AM Kenneth Plitt, MBA, CRNA and
Jim Henderson, BSN, CRNA
CRNA Economic and Reimbursement Issues
09:00AM David Gleason, BHS, CRNA
Spinals and Epidurals in the Difficult Back
10:00AM Break (Check out)
10:15AM Jinia Chatterton, MS, CRNA
Epidemiology of Obesity and Anesthetic Challenges*
11:15AM Jinia Chatterton, MS, CRNA
Classification and Pharmacology of the Antiemetic Drugs**
12:15PM ADJOURN

** Denotes 1 hour of pharmacology content
* Denotes 0.5 hour of pharmacology content