Guest Speakers: Guy Weinberg, MD and Michael Fettiplace, MD
This webinar is the eleventh of a 12-part series that will allow you to claim up to 12 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. This webinar will offer 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
Learning Objectives:
- After listening to this presentation, participants will be able to:
- Use knowledge of incidence, context and risk factors to mitigate risk for LAST (prevention)
- Explain the changing context and evolving presentation of LAST (diagnosis)
- Provide optimal support for patient with LAST (treatment)
Dr. Guy Weinberg of the University of Illinois at Chicago, is best known for developing the infusion of lipid emulsion to treat local anesthetic systemic toxicity. Dr. Weinberg trained at UCSF in Internal Medicine and Medical Genetics, then completed a research fellowship at the NIH before shifting to Anesthesiology at the University of Virginia where he trained under mentors Harold Carron, Cosmo DiFazio, and John Rowlingson. A single unusual case led to the discovery that infusing lipid emulsion (ILE) can reverse local anesthetic systemic toxicity (LAST) - currently a widely adopted standard of care. Dr. Weinberg also chaired the ASRA working group on LAST for more than a decade and helped craft the first treatment advisories. He received the ASRA Distinguished Service and Gaston Labat Awards, the ESRA Karl Koller Award, and gave the 2022 ASA Severinghaus Lecture on Translational Medicine.
Michael Fettiplace MD PhD is an anesthesiologist and clinician-scientist specializing in patient safety, local anesthetic pharmacology, and resuscitation medicine. He received an MD-PhD from University of Illinois studying the mechanism of lipid rescue prior to completing anesthesiology training at Massachusetts General Hospital. He has spent the majority of his career providing guidance on the identification, prevention and treatment of adverse events from local anesthetics. His work serves as the basis of professional society recommendations including ACMT, AHA and ASRA and currently serves as the Chair of the ASRA guidelines committee on LAST. Clinically he practices neuro-anesthesia and transplant anesthesia at UI-Health.