Friday - Track 2

Presenter: Christina Fuller The use of rebreathing and non-rebreathing circuits requires an appropriately sized reservoir bag in order to adequately and safely anesthetize your patient. By understanding how to calculate an appropriate reservoir bag size for your patient, one is able to provide adequate anesthesia and ensure your patient is being provided proper ventilation. This presentation provides the foundations of how to calculate the appropriately sized reservoir bag, and how choosing, or not choosing, the appropriately sized bag could affect your patient and research study. As surgical anesthetists, it’s our job to ensure patient safety and adequate anesthesia is achieved during [...]

Presenter: Justin Hartman Leadership and mentoring are pivotal components of the growth of surgical research, influencing both professional development and the advancement of science. This presentation explores the dynamic interplay between effective leadership and mentoring strategies within surgical teams. Emphasis is placed on the importance of fostering a culture of collaboration, continuous learning, and psychological safety, which enhances team performance and resilience in high-stakes settings.  Senior surgeons and anesthetists, surgical trainers, and management all play a role in shaping ethical standards, technical proficiency, and emotional intelligence among trainees. Structured mentoring programs and adaptive leadership improves individual competencies while elevating the overall [...]

Presenter: Stone Van Slooten, University of Minnesota-Experimental Surgical Services Introduction: For girls afflicted with cancer, oncofertility is often a secondary, but important concern. Advancements in the field of organ preservation may make the ability to harvest, preserve, and later transplant ovaries following a course of gonadotoxic treatment, such as chemotherapy, a promising option for these patients. As such, in vivo animal models are necessary to test novel organ preservation technologies prior to clinical use. In preparation of the testing and evaluation of such technologies, we sought to develop a reproducible approach for ovarian autotransplantation in the domestic sheep model. Methods: Seven [...]

Presenter: Stephanie Vaughan, Labcorp Introduction: The use of video recording of surgical procedures had previously been attempted within the company to reduce travel needs of surgical trainers. Balancing security of sensitive videos and the 3Rs principles has led to a renewed effort to create a video library of surgical procedures to help train the next generation of surgical technicians while reducing the number of animals needed for training. Methods: To start the beginning of a surgical video library, a canine jugular catheterization with and without VAP procedure was filmed during a non-recovery surgical training session using standard anesthesia regimen for terminal [...]

Presenter: Marc Hulin, LAM&S Consulting, LLC This presentation is designed to share a new soft skill tool with staff called positive intelligence. PQ is a technique to combat the negativity that is caused by stress and anxiety in our lives. The audience will learn about positive intelligence or PQ is and how to identify the self-sabotage that we allow to creep into our minds which prevents us from being successful in life. The audience will learn details about the 10 saboteurs and how they work to overwhelm us during stressful time Finally, the presenter will introduce the Sage and the 5 [...]