Has anyone taken a neonatal anesthesia CE recently that felt truly evidence-based and usable at the bedside? I’m updating our competencies and want 2–3 hours that reinforce current standards — thermoregulation for <2 kg infants, low-flow sevo with reliable capnography in tiny tidal volumes, and post-op apnea risk/monitoring for former preterms — so I’d appreciate specific courses you’d vouch for (or avoid).
SPA’s neonatal anesthesia update webinar this year was the most evidence-based I’ve done; about 2 hours and on-demand here: Education / Meetings | Society for Pediatric Anesthesia. In practice, the single tweak that helped my capno with tiny VTs was “set the microstream neonatal line to [redacted]/min and put the sampling port at the ETT,” which kept EtCO2 reliable while running low-flow sevo. If your monitor won’t drop below [redacted]/min, tcCO2 trending is a decent backup — are you standardizing caffeine for former preterms or keeping it case-by-case?
I got what you’re after by pairing SPA’s neonatal update with an AANA Journal Course review on post‑op apnea (easy to find via https://learn.aana.com); practical pearl that’s helped me: “tee the sampling line at the elbow and drop the sampling rate to the neonatal setting so the waveform stays reliable even if it’s small.” Do you need Class A specifically, or would AMA CME work?
I paired @canderson59’s picks with a quick vendor CE on neonatal capnography (your monitor rep can usually enroll you; AANA‑approved) to cover the “tiny‑Vt ETCO2” gap and it made the low‑flow sevo piece feel bedside‑ready. Which capno system are you on (Microstream vs mainstream)? I can point you to the exact module.