Summer is here, which means our annual meeting is just around the corner! We hope you will all be able to join us in North Carolina for our 54th SNACC Annual meeting. We hope to see all our members and encourage our trainees to attend the Welcome Reception on Thursday night September 10th. We will have a meet-and-greet for all our trainees. As a special treat, our past SNACC presidents including Dr. John Bebawy, Dr. Ines Koerner, and Dr. Rafi Avitsian will be joining us to speak to current and future fellows. Hearing from those who have succeeded in our society is always a great reminder that the path to success is taken one step at a time. Please stop by and introduce yourselves and hear from our past presidents, we are excited to meet you!
Our JNA podcast continues to do great work! We would like to extend a wonderful thank you to Dr. Shobana Rajan and all that she has done to create, edit, and promote the JNA podcast. She will be stepping down as producer of the podcast and passing this role onto Dr. Rubina Sharma. Dr. Sharma will be starting her tenure with an interview of Drs. Shobana Rajan and Nitin Manohara from the Cleveland Clinic. They will be discussing their recent publication, “Interpreting Intraoperative EEG: Beyond Indices to the Essential Role of Raw EEG and Density Spectral Array” published in this past April’s Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology. We welcome Dr. Sharma to our TEC community and look forward to the work she is going to do. As always, to listen to the full episode, you can visit SoundCloud and search “SNACC podcast”. In addition, these podcasts can also be found not just on our website but on Spotify and Apple podcasts – just search “SNACC”.
Our Challenging Case team continues to produce publications in the SNACC newsletter. This edition features “The Price of Gravity: A Challenging Neuroanesthesia Case in the Sitting Position.” An excellent piece written by Xueqin Ding MD, Ph.D., from Metrohealth Medical
Center, Case Western Reserve University. In this article, Dr. Xuequin reviews the complications that can arise during sitting craniotomies including tongue edema. This is a great reminder that during a sitting craniotomy the complications that can occur are extensive and early diagnosis and intervention are critical for preventing permanent neurological injury during and after this procedure. This case also serves as an important reminder of how to best prepare for these unique cases that we only see on occasion.
Finally, we continue to publish EEG signature cases. Drs. Alexander Papangelou, MD and Casandra Dean, MD discuss the “Extremes of Hypnosis.” They do an excellent job comparing two patients with differing hypnotic anesthetic management under general anesthesia. The first patient is a younger patient from the intensive critical care unit with lower-than-average sevoflurane concentration for maintenance. The second patient is an older patient undergoing a gastrointestinal procedure with a history of awareness, alcohol, and marijuana use with higher-than-average sevoflurane and propofol infusions. We frequently use EEG to determine anesthetic need, and this is exactly why! Much recommended read!
Hope you all have a great summer. We look forward to seeing you all in North Carolina!
