We ask that your first slide for each presentation be the title of your presentation. Your second slide should be your objectives. Your third slide should be your disclosure information.

The Society for Pediatric Anesthesia (SPA) serves as the accrediting CME sponsor. As such, we have made choice to meet the ACCME expectations for our practice of continuing medical education. Our accreditation is important to us. We look forward to working together to provide CME at the highest standard.

SPA has implemented a process where everyone who is in a position to control the content of an education activity has disclosed to us all relevant financial relationships with any commercial interest. In addition, should it be determined that a conflict of interest exists as a result of a financial relationship you may have, this will need to be resolved prior to the activity. This information is necessary in order for us to be able to move to the next steps in planning this CME activity. If you refuse to disclose relevant financial relationships, you will be disqualified from being a part of the CME activity.

As an important contributor to our accredited education, we would like to enlist your help to ensure that educational content is fair and balanced, and that any clinical content presented supports safe, effective patient care. This includes the expectations that:

• All recommendations for patient care in accredited continuing education must be based on current science, evidence, and clinical reasoning, while giving a fair and balanced view of diagnostic and therapeutic options.
• All scientific research referred to, reported, or used in accredited education in support or justification of a patient care recommendation must conform to the generally accepted standards of experimental design, data collection, analysis, and interpretation.
• Although accredited continuing education is an appropriate place to discuss, debate, and explore new and evolving topics, these areas need to be clearly identified as such within the program and individual presentations. It is the responsibility of accredited providers to facilitate engagement with these topics without advocating for, or promoting, practices that are not, or not yet, adequately based on current science, evidence, and clinical reasoning.
• Content cannot be included in accredited education if it advocates for unscientific approaches to diagnosis or therapy, or if the education promotes recommendations, treatment, or manners of practicing healthcare that are determined to have risks or dangers that outweigh the benefits or are known to be ineffective in the treatment of patients.

These expectations are drawn from Standard 1 of the ACCME Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. For more information, see accme.org/standards. If we can help you to understand and/or apply these strategies to your education, please contact us at kim@societyhq.com.

It is the SPA's policy to conduct post-activity evaluations. These evaluations ask participants to indicate the appropriateness of presentations to their specific practices, if the presentations satisfied the stated objectives, if they were satisfied with the faculty presentations and if there was any evidence of commercial bias. The results of these evaluations are used to plan future CME activities and are shared with the faculty.

Once again, thank you for your willingness to participate in this event. We have worked hard to develop a program which will meet the expressed needs of our expected participants.

By checking this box, I   Peggy McNaull MD  , agree that my presentation will comply with the requirements listed above.