Region 1
Shaleha Khalique, Cer.A.T.
E-mail: Shaleha.Khalique@stonybrook.edu

Hello Region 1!!

Hope everyone is doing well. My sincere thanks goes out to you all who have come for the Region 1 Meeting, making it a success!! With beautiful weather, good company, interesting lectures and hands-on workshops, I couldn’t ask for more! I hope everyone enjoyed it as much as I did. For those who missed out, not to worry, there’s more to come next year.

I’m open to suggestions for lecture topics, locations for meeting, information on vendors who might be willing to sponsor, as well as comments and concerns. Please don’t hesitate to contact me. Anyone who has already voiced their comments and concerns, rest assure that I will keep these in mind as I work towards next year’s conference.

For a few quick reminders: (1) I’d like everyone who is up for their membership renewal to follow through with their application, and, (2) anyone interested in going to the National ASATT Conference can still register so please come join us in our meeting.

Finally, as the weather warms up, I’d like to wish you all and your families, a safe, happy & healthy summer!!!

Shaleha Khalique, Cer.A.T.

Region 2
Kraig Tayer, Cer.A.T.T.
E-mail: navydoc424@aol.com or tayerk@ccf.org

Summer is here and now the complaints about the heat will begin. Needless to say the fun has just started. In our region we had 2 successful meetings that were well attended. I hope everyone is making their plans to attend our Annual Educational Conference and Business Meeting in Orlando in October. With the price of gas, maybe this would be the time to take your family vacation in conjunction with the meeting. I will also be traveling to North Dakota in July for my home town celebration of 125 years. July is also the time for membership renewal and exercising your right to vote for your society officers. Voting this year is by online ballot only – no need for a trip to the Post Office for stamps. I hope you all have a safe and enjoyable summer and to see you in Orlando. WEAR YOUR SUNSCREEN.

Kraig Tayer, Cer.A.T.T.

Next stop, Orlando! Everyone should be getting their final plans made for the annual meeting being held in Orlando, Florida, October 16-19. It looks like a great line-up of speakers and there will be at least 30 vendors displaying their products. If you’ve never been to a national meeting, now is the time. Bring the whole family a few days early, or plan to stay a couple days after, and enjoy the area attractions as you earn your CE’s.

Half the year is already gone and re-certification time will be here before you know it. Now is a good time to make sure you have all your CE’s (20 for technicians and 30 for technologists) and the proper paperwork together. We have had a lot of trouble with people trying to send in falsified documents, so beware, all certificates, documents, and sign-in attendance sheets are being verified by the re-certification committee. To assure that your re-certification goes through quickly, please make sure that all your paperwork has the proper contact information for verification. If it can not be verified, it will not count.

Our joint regional meeting with the South Carolina Society of Anesthesia Technologists and Technicians which was held in Florence, SC n June 21 & 22 was a great success, thanks to Teresa Alston and her crew at McLeod Regional Medical Center. We have no more regional meetings planned for their year, but are working on 2 one-day meetings for next year in Georgia and Florida. I’ll keep you posted on those as the plans are made.

Have a great summer!

Darlene Bolick

The 2008 ASATT Annual Education Conference, October 16th-19th at the Buena Vista Palace hotel in beautiful Orlando, FL.

Hello to all of Region 4:

Well here we are in middle of Summer in the Midwest! It has been a year of extreme challenges with the weather in our area, I hope you all have made it through and are healthy.

The Region 4 Meeting was held in SE Wisconsin in April, and it was a great educational meeting. We had great support from our vendors. We had several new faces this year, which was so nice to see, and as always many attendees that have attended in the past. It was a nice group, I saw some good interacting going on, which I think is one of the benefits of these regional meetings. If you have not attended one of these regional meetings, please give it some consideration in the future.

As I have said in many of my reports and at the last few meetings, that I would not be running for Regional Director this year. Those of you who are members already know that I am not running for Regional Director, which is old news. NEW news is that I am running for President Elect. I was approached by a few members who asked me to consider this position. After much thought and consideration, I accepted the nomination. I feel the correct time is now; I have a good feel for what is going on in the organization.

At this time I would like to Thank all who supported me as the Region 4 Director for the past 6 years, it has been a pleasure representing each of you. Also I would ask for your continued support as I run for President Elect, if you so chose.

Please think about becoming more involved in ASATT, it is has been very fulfilling both personally and professionally.

PLEASE, PLEASE, send in your nomination of Regional Educational Award. It is due NOW!!

Once again thank you for allowing me to represent you,
Mary McGavock LPN, Cer.A.T

As the new ASATT Region 5 director, I am excited to announce that I held my very first meeting and it was extremely successful! The meeting was held June 7th at The Methodist Hospital in the Texas Medical Center in Houston Texas. This meeting offered 6 CE credits and attracted anesthesia technicians from the entire Region 5 area.

Technology, medicine and anesthesia change constantly. The type of work anesthesia technicians did years ago may not exist today. This assembly consisted of a great deal of innovative, educational, and informative topics that are incredibly useful to anesthesia technicians. I sincerely hope that the anesthesia technicians that attended the meeting received good education and information that was valuable to use.

My sincere thanks to our vendors and sponsors for helping us have a victorious meeting this year! The vendors were: Belmont Industries, Pall Medical, Organon, Vital Signs Baxter, GE Medical, King Systems, Somanetics, Medline, LMA, CVC, Sonosite, Masimo, Kentec Medical, Intersurgical Inc, and Life Tech Inc.

Thank you

Essie

Region 6 members! Just a reminder that there is still time to Register for the ASATT 19th Annual meeting. It is being held in Orlando and should be a very exciting destination for you and your family!

I will update the Website with some educational opportunities later, but they may not be in time for CE's if you need them this year.

I encourage you to submit an original article for the Science & Technology award. This article is submitted to Maretta Grandona to be published in the Sensor, which then makes you eligible for the $1500 award for best article. Hey! I know there are a lot of smart techs out there! Why not share all those smarts with the rest of us!?

Hope to see some of you soon.

Vicki Reyes

Howzit Region 7!!!

The Portland, Oregon Meeting was held at Providence Saint Vincent on Saturday, April 19th in the Souther Auditorium. There were 55 Anesthesia Technologists and Technicians in attendance of the meeting. More than half of the attendees drove down from the Seattle, WA area. Denise Carrara and Kelly Hines did a great job coordinating the meeting and Providence was an excellent place to hold the meeting.

I’d like to thank the fantastic speakers, who did a fantastic job presenting their topics.
Ultrasound Guided Anesthesia – Seeing in Achieving-David Auyoung, M.D., Proper Care and Handling of Flexible Endoscopes-John Luedke, Pediatric Anesthesia-Nick Tchervan, M.D., Overview of Lung Isolation Principles and Practice-Minh Pham, M.D., Bariatric Anesthesia-Tammy Carpenter, M.D., OB Anesthesia-Lynn Fenton, M.D., & Prevention of Hypothermia-Tonya Priestly.

Without our Vendor/Sponsors the meeting would not be possible. These were the magnificent companies that sacrificed their Saturday to be with us; Abbott-Jennifer Miller, ARC Medical-Patti Faubert, Arizant-Tonya Priestley, Aspect Medical-Jill Szwedko, Carl Storz-Carrie Bischel, Cook-Jay Arroyo, GE Healthcare-Datex/Ohmeda-Jerry Wymer, Indigo-Break Sponsor, LMA North America, Inc., Mallinkrodt, Masimo, Sonosite-Tom Weyhauch, Teleflex Medical/Arrow International-Lori Swider, and Total Scope, Inc.-John Luedke.

Our next meeting is right around the corner in Honolulu, Hawaii on Sunday, August 10th at the Hilton Waikiki Prince Kuhio Hotel. The hotel is located two blocks from beautiful Waikiki Beach, but away from Kalakaua Avenue. Kalakaua Avenue is the main street in Waikiki. However it is still close enough to enjoy the nightlife of the city. The hotel was recently renovated; all of the rooms and some of the exterior have been redone. Those who elect to stay at the hotel will enjoy its beauty. I can always use any help that you maybe able to provide to help me at the meeting. If you are able to provide a topic for the lectures, secure a speaker, a vendors or sponsor, or willing to just help. Please contact me ASAP. I hope to see many of you at the meeting. You are able to register for this meeting online. We will be the first regional meeting to have this capability. Click here to register.

We just got through another recertification cycle and heading down the home stretch of another. Everyone must start looking at your contact hours so, please plan to attend the regional meeting or the national meeting. It is just months away and if you plan to attend you will receive 12 contact hours. If you are thinking about it, start planning, it will be hosted at Buena Vista Palace Hotel & Space in Orlando, Florida. Take a look at the website; www: buenovistapalace.com. The hotel is situated in the heart of Downtown Disney close to many restaurants and fun places to see.

Don’t forget we must start looking at nominees for the Region 7 Educational Award. This is the award sponsored by ASATT to recognize anyone within our region who has helped further the education of anesthesia technicians and technologists. Please take a look at colleagues or vendors who have help you become a better/smarter Anesthesia Technician.

Aloha,
Delbert

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