Summer is here, which means our annual meeting is just around the corner! We hope you will all be able to join us in Atlanta, Georgia for our 53rd SNACC Annual meeting. In addition, we hope to see our trainees at the welcome reception on Friday night September 12th. We will have a special corner blocked off to welcome all our trainees, please stop by and introduce yourselves, we are excited to meet you!
We continue to update our Neuroanesthesia Classrooms and ask that you spread the word to your trainees. Our Advanced Classroom has been a great resource for our own trainees and we welcome you to share it with yours. This in addition to our Basic Classroom, is a mostly free resource to help guide junior and senior residents through their Neurosurgical Anesthesia rotations. It can be found within the Education Corner tab under Education and Trainees. We continue to thank Dr. Kamilla Esfahani (Director) and Dr. Rashid Hussain (Associate Director) on their work in this endeavor and Dr. Matt Whalin for his regular updates.
Our JNA podcast continues to do great work! Since our last newsletter Dr. Rashid D. Hussain interviewed author Dr. Alice (Xinyan) Wang discussing her article, “Anesthesia on Clinical Outcomes in an Extended Time Window During Endovascular Stroke Therapy: Exploratory Analysis of the ANGEL-ACT Registry,” in the January 2025 edition of JNA. Not out yet but coming soon, our JNA podcast’s next episode will be Dr. Bryan Benson interviewing author Dr. Jason Chui. Together they are discussing “The Impact of a Neuroanesthesia Fellowship on Patient Outcomes in Spine Surgery.” I can’t wait to hear this conversation as I am sure many of you also have your opinions on this topic. 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 a case discussing management of a venous air embolism in a sitting craniotomy. Something we all worry about when faced with a sitting craniotomy and a great topic to review. Drs. Tyler Bryant, MD, MHS and Adekemi Akano, MD discuss how they prepared a complex patient to best capture the venous air embolus and then what they did to manage the event. Most certainly worth the read and review. Great work Drs. Bryant and Akano.
Finally, we continue to publish EEG signature cases. Drs. Alexander Papangelou, MD and A. Elisabeth Abramowicz, MD discuss the changes that can be seen with mid-case handoffs and the titration down of the anesthetics and how this can be reflected in the EEG. Do you titrate your anesthetic to EEG readings? Many argue that this should be done in vulnerable populations, however theory and practice are two different worlds. We hope you enjoy learning from their images and review or whether titrating anesthetics to EEG is something many of us should be considering.
Hope you all have a great summer. We look forward to seeing you all in Atlanta!
