Issue 5(click to view)                                  June 1, 2014

Dear members and colleagues,
All CASA Newsletters are available on line www.chineseasa.org
In this issue, you will see the consensus of anesthesia on children and other sections. Newsletter will post one subspecialty per month. You are encouraged to contact the chairs in each committee for your common interests. 

Practice Updates
 

1. Is general anesthesia safe for children? Here is the latest consensus of anesthesia on children
Contributed from committee of pediatric anesthesia. Chair, Ruoxu You (游若旭), MD. Graduated from Shanghai Medical University, China in 1990; Completed residency at New Jersey Medical School in 2003 and his fellowship in pediatric anesthesia at Columbia University School of Medicine 2005. Practices at Overlook Hospital, New Jersey Attending Physician Group. 

Message from editor (Jeffrey Jianhong Huang-黄建宏)

Dr. Huang graduated from Tongji Medical University, China in 1985; Completed residency at Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis in 2000 and Pain fellowship, Cleveland Clinic Foundation in 2001; Practices in Orlando Health, Florida; Chair of CASA practice management.
21th Century Perioperative Surgical Care: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS)

Introduction of Honorary Member Dr. Frances Chung-(钟芳婷)


 

Authored by Dr. Davy Cheng (郑仲煊). MD, MSc FRCPC FCAHS CCPE,
Distinguished University Professor & Chair / Chief Department of Anesthesia & Perioperative Medicine, Professor, Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, London Health Sciences Center & St. Joseph Health Care London, Western University, London Ontario, Canada. (The article is invited by Dr. Haiming Wang-王海明)

CASA's Highlights

(Includes recent publications, presentation grants awarded, prizes awarded, major committees & task forces, news articles & releases and new patents)
1.  Dr. Yandong Jiang (蒋延东) is appointed to be Associate Editor of Anesthesiology
since January 2014. Congratulations! Dr. Jiang graduated from Qingdao Medical College, China in 1983. 
Completed training in anesthesia at Brigham & Women Hospital, Boston in 2002; 
Associate professor, Harvard University School of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA;
Chair, Advisory Committee on Clinical Reserach, Massachusetts General Hospital;
Chair, Scientific Abstracts Committee, Society of Anesthesia and Sleep Medicine.

2.  Jinping Wang's publications (王景平)
Tsai A, Ahmed S, Wang JP . Persistent cerebrospinal fluid-cutaneous fistula after epidural analgesia: a case report and review of literature. Anesthesiology & Clinical Science. 2014; 3:2 (6 March 2014)

a) Li G, Wang JP. Residual muscle weakness after succinylcholine infusion: Clinical Presentation, Diagnosis and Treatment.Austin Journal of Anesthesia and Analgesia. 2014; 2(4): 4

 b) Williams E, Buchbinder B, Ahmed S, Alston T, Rathmell J, Wang JP. Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension: Presentation, Diagnosis and Treatment. Anesthesiology, Accepted. 2014.

3.   Pain Pathway

Authored by Charlie Johnson, Renyu Liu (刘仁玉)and Jeffery Saven from Penn News Today. http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/news/penn-research-combines-graphene-and-painkiller-receptor-scalable-chemical-sensor

4.   Regional Anesthesia and Breast Cancer Recurrence

Authored by Cathy Xiqing Cao (曹锡清), MD. Senior attending anesthsiologist, department of anesthesiology, Medstar Washington Hospital Center. Washington DC.

Meetings

1. CAA (Chinese Association of Anesthesiologists) Annual Meeting took place in Shanghai on April 11, 2014.

The Drs. Renyu Liu(刘仁玉),  Zhongcong Xie(谢仲淙),  Zhiyi Zuo(左志义),  Dajie Wang(汪大杰),  Henry Liu(刘恒义), Lixin Liu(刘立新),  Frank Rosinia, Antonia Rosinia,  Yun Xia(夏云) (from left to right) lectured at meeting.

2. 2014 China Cardiothoracic Anesthesia and Perioperative Management Conference and the 9th Cardiovascular Anesthesia Forum of International Chinese Anesthesiologists was held in Changsha on May 1, 2014. 

Drs. Yonggang Peng (彭永刚), Henry H. Liu (刘恒义), Jiapeng Huang (黄佳鹏), Hong Wang (汪红), Tao Hong (洪涛), and David Y. Tang(唐越) attended the conference and delivered the lectures.

3. 2014 Chicago China-US Five-Society Peripartum Medicine Summit Conference
2014年芝加哥中美围产医学五方高峰会议纪实), Privided by Dr. LingQun Hu (胡灵群)

4. The Statement of the 2014 China-USA Peripartum Care Five-Society Meeting in Chicago
    2014年中美芝加哥围产医学五方高峰会议联合公报(2014-04-29), Privided by Dr. LingQun Hu (胡灵群)

5. The Statement of the 2014 China-USA Obstetric Anesthesia Four-Society Meeting in Toronto
    2014年多伦多中美产科麻醉四方峰会会议联合公报), Privided by Dr. LingQun Hu (胡灵群)

Authored by Tina Leung (田穂荣), MD, Graduated from Guangzhou Medical College in 1982. Completed residency and cardiac fellowship in St Vincents Hospital and Medical Center of Manhattan in 2000. Faculty at Mount Sinai Hospital and School of Medicine, Queens, New York. Treasurer of CASA.