Summit Tracks

As the Summit and SPAQI have grown alongside the expanding depth and breadth of Perioperative medicine as a field, we have seen how nuanced professional and personal development needs are becoming.  In addition to world renown speakers and perioperative medicine experts lecturing on the main stage, we are incredibly excited to bring more options for an individualized conference learning experience with these five tracks.  Each track has been designed to include one problem-based learning discussion (PBLD) and four breakout sessions. Stay in one track for all sessions — or "chose your own adventure".  Additionally, breakout sessions with be live-streamed and recorded, so you can return to sessions you missed during the Summit itself later—expanding your learning and CME hour offerings!

Track 1: Inpatient perioperative medicine and co-management 

• Establishing a Co-Management Agreement
• Transitions of care planning and periop transitional primary care 
• Please don't cancel my case in the preop area! Inpatient surgery preparedness and multidisciplinary team-based opportunities
• Challenging Inpatient VTE scenarios: anticoagulants meet antiplatelet agents
• PBLD: Periop Biomarkers and MINS

Track 2: Pediatrics

• Children are not just small adults: reframing pediatric perioperative care needs  
• Beyond Surgery: health maintenance with anesthesia support for patients with intellectual disabilities
• “It takes a village”: exploring pathways for multidisciplinary pediatric Perioperative best practice
• New Frontiers in Collaborative Practice Agreements: APPs and pediatric periop medicine
• PBLD: Adults with complex pediatric conditions, guardianship and capacity considerations in surgical planning 

Track 3: Professional Development  

• Advancing Preoperative Education through Curriculum Development
• Leadership in Perioperative Medicine
• Getting Started with Periop Quality Improvement
• My boss doesn't fully understand what I do! Getting promoted in perioperative medicine
• PBLD: Challenging interpersonal and patient communication

Track 4: Billing Bonanza

• Billing 101 (E/M billing)
• Unique billing situations: APPs, telehealth, and more 
• Billing 201--Cost Savings and Value-Added Opportunities
• Billing open session with the experts: bring your questions!
• PBLD: Telehealth and patient scheduling with a lens on social determinants of health 

Track 5: Advanced Clinical Topics  

• Medication management 
• Designing and Running an Anemia Management Program
• Frailty through the Lens of Neuromuscular and Neurodegenerative Conditions
• Advanced Cardiac Cases
• PBLD: Management of cardiac electronic implantable devices

Optimizing the Electronic Medical Record for your perioperative medicine program:

Also new this year—MORE time with perioperative medicine EMR super-users!  During the Friday afternoon breakout sessions (two 45-minutes back-to-back), we will have an entire session devoted to EMR support. Stay tuned for more information about prepared content and resources.