/EINPresswire.com/ -- MELVILLE, NY--(Marketwired - October 18, 2016) - North American Partners in Anesthesia (NAPA) announced today that eight of its anesthesiologists will serve as featured speakers and moderators at the American Society of Anesthesiologist's (ASA) ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2016 Conference. NAPA will also be joining the event as an ASA Annual Meeting Supporter and an exhibitor at booth #3012. The event is taking place October 22-26, 2016 at McCormick Place in Chicago, IL.

"We are delighted to have the opportunity to share our ideas, passion and commitment with fellow clinicians at the world's largest educational meeting supporting the specialty of anesthesia," said John Di Capua, MD, CEO of NAPA. "ANESTHESIOLOGY serves as a platform to connect with like-minded practices and clinicians to further drive the evolution of our specialty and lead the future of healthcare."

NAPA clinical abstracts and presentations will include:

-Open Laparotomy in 1-kg Preterm Neonate Managed Perioperatively by Bilateral Rectus Sheath Blocks: A Case Report

John Hagen, MD, pediatric anesthesiologist and Assistant Professor, Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine and Gabriel Orner, MD, anesthesiology resident

-Anesthetic Considerations in a Patient with Tuberous Sclerosis

Debra Lederman, MD, attending anesthesiologist and Zvonimir Bebic, MD, anesthesiology resident

-No Room to Teeter-Totter: Bedside Thoracotomy in a pediatric patient on High Frequency Oscillatory Ventilator

John Hagen, MD, pediatric anesthesiologist and Assistant Professor, Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine and John Pearson, MD, anesthesiology resident

-Preparing for the Expansion of Bundled Payments

Sonia Szlyk, MD, Director of Regional Anesthesia, Mid-Atlantic Division of NAPA

-Suspected Drug Abuse after Induction of Anesthesia

Dominic Nardi, MD, NAPA partner and Assistant Professor, Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine; Mohammed Hamdani, MD, attending anesthesiologist and Lindsay Lopata, MD, anesthesia resident

-Intraoperative Continuous Airway Pressure During Craniotomy

Dominic Nardi, MD, NAPA partner and Assistant Professor, Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine and Lindsay Lopata, MD, anesthesia resident

-The Ongoing Tale of Perioperative Testing in ASA 1 Patients: The Cost of Gender Discrepancies

Pam Upadya, MD, Associate Director for the Anesthesia Residency Program and the Director of the Simulation Training Laboratory at St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center; Bilal Abadi, MD, anesthesia resident and Harini Ramireddy, MD, anesthesia resident

-Instructor in the Difficult Airway Workshop with Simulation

Cheryl Gooden, MD, pediatric anesthesiologist

-Moderator for Attacking the Ooze! How, Why, and When to Treat the Coagulopathic Patient

Linda Shore-Lesserson, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology, Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine

-Moderator for Minimizing Transfusions for the Cardiac Surgery Patient: Tricks of the Trade

Linda Shore-Lesserson, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology, Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine

For more than 60 years, the ASA annual meeting has been the most comprehensive anesthesia-related educational event in the world, bringing together top influential and notable professionals in anesthesiology, pain medicine and critical care medicine. This year's attendees will learn the newest techniques, obtain critical information to better serve their patients and grow their practices. For more information on ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2016, visit ASA's website.

About North American Partners in Anesthesia
As a clinician-led organization, North American Partners in Anesthesia (NAPA) is redefining healthcare, delivering unsurpassed excellence to its partners and patients every day. In three decades, NAPA has grown to become one of the nation's leading single-specialty anesthesia and perioperative management companies, serving more than one million patients annually in more than 200 healthcare facilities throughout the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest and Southeast. Our highly skilled teams of clinicians participate in groundbreaking leadership development and customer service training programs to deliver optimal results to patients, surgeons, healthcare administrators and staff. Through our exceptional perioperative leadership, research, innovations and state-of-the-art technologies, NAPA offers real solutions driven by evidence-based outcomes to dramatically accelerate operational efficiencies, increase satisfaction ratings and enhance safety and profitability. For more information, please visit NAPAanesthesia.com.

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