Corporate partnerships enable ASA to offer a wide array of diverse and robust meetings, educational opportunities, publications, and initiatives ... all while keeping costs lower for our members. Because working with corporate partners is so vital to ASA's work, we go the extra mile to ensure that these partnerships are conducted with full transparency. Our members should feel confident that stakeholders act in the best interest of the society, membership, and our patients.
This long-standing commitment has received even more attention recently with the new conflict of interest process implemented by ASA's Committee on Standards and Practice Parameters (CSPP). CSPP offers guidance to membership by providing educational and scientific information related to the safe and effective practice of anesthesiology. As part of this mission, the committee develops evidence-based guidelines and advisories as well as practice standards, alerts and other consensus-based documents. So although ASA has always been strong in this...
