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CPAS Annual Meeting - Halifax 2018
Dates: October 26th - Oct 27th, 2018
See our program and speakers here
Chair: Clyde Matava
Vice Chair: Katherine Taylor
Secretary: Zoe Brown
Treasurer: Koto Furue
Past Chair: David Rosen
Members at Large: Jerry Luntley, Simon Whyte (co-opted CPAS 2020 LOC)
Communications Officer: Papu Nath
Scientific Committee Chair: Jon Gamble
Scientific Committee: Jon Gamble, Conor McDonnell, Kimmo Murto, Susan Goobie
CPAS 2020 Local Organizing Chair: Simon Whyte
Submitted by: Dr David Rosen
CPAS is a non-profit incorporated entity that is run by an elected Board of Directors. The term of elected service is 2 years. Existing Directors may stand for re-election when their term expires.
In 2016 the terms of several existing CPAS Board members will be complete. The positions of Vice-Chair, Secretary and Member-at-Large will become vacant. Inaccordance with its By-Laws, elections to the Board must be held at the AGM, in Banff, at the Scientific Meeting. We are seeking nominations for election to the 2016-2018 Board. All CPAS members with an active subscription are eligible and invited to consider standing for election. The Board seeks a careful balance of youth & experience, as well as broad geographical representation across Canada.
Call for CPAS Nominations 2016-2018
The membership of CPAS at the AGM ratified new Canadian Pediatric Anesthesia Fasting Guidelines and agreed to support the development of comprehensive fasting guidelines through the Canadian Pediatric Anesthesia Fasting Guidelines Working Group*. The ratified motion reads as follows:
The Canadian Pediatric Anesthesia Society endorses allowing and encouraging clear fluid intake up to 1 hour before elective anesthesia or sedation.
This was the level of granularity where we left the recommendations, and it will be up to individual institutions to develop protocols based on these guidelines. For many institutions, current fasting guidelines will look like this:
For elective sedation and anesthesia, the following fasting times are recommended:
8 hours: full meal, fatty foods
6 hours: light meal, milk, infant formula, fortified expressed breast milk
4 hours: breast milk
1 hour: clear fluids
