2023 Program

Saturday, April 1st 2023

715 – 800 Breakfast & Registration
Industry Symposium: 725 – 755
800 – 815 Welcome & Opening Remarks
815 – 900 Keynote Address: Why we should all be using bedside POCUS
Daniel Bainbridge
900 – 915 Q&A and Discussion
915 – 1000 Panel Discussion: Unlocking the Potential of POCUS: Exploring Novel Applications (airway, labour and neuro anesthesia)

  • Christian Arzola
  • Fabrico Zasso
  • Mike Dinsmore
1000 – 1015 Q&A and Discussion
1015 – 1045 Break
1045 – 1115 Role of TEE in perioperative resuscitation
Pablo Perez d’Empaire
1115 – 1145 Panel Discussion: How to become a POCUS champion and POCUS certification
Chaired by: Anahi Perlas

  • Pablo Perez d’Empaire
  • Roland Xu
  • Laura Giron Arango
1145 – 1200 Q&A and Discussion
1200 – 1300 Lunch Break
Industry Symposium: 1215 – 1245
1300 – 1630

Problem Based Learning Discussions: Choose 3 of 9

  1. Is BMI just a number?: Obesity, sleep and anesthesia update
    Mandeep Singh
  2. Managing the Chronic Pain Patient in the OR
    Ehtesham Baig & Sachin Sahni
  3. Update on Pediatric Anesthesia – Emergence Delirium & Dexmedetomidine, Neurodevelopmental Outcomes after Anesthesia
    Evelina Pankiv
  4. Update in Post Dural Puncture Headache Complications and Management
    Tural Alakbarli
  5. Anesthesia management of patients with implanted devices (Deep brain stimulators, Spinal cord stimulators) for non-stimulator surgeries
    Lashmi Venkatraghavanan, Anuja Rathore
  6. Anesthesia for non-cardiac surgery in patients with severe pulmonary hypertension
    Pieter de Jager & Jay Han
  7. Update in Trauma (with a focus on resuscitation)
    Jeff Wassermann
  8. Perioperative update on antiplatelets and antithrombotic
    Selene Perez Martinez
1300 – 1400 Session 1
1400 – 1415 BREAK
1415 – 1515 Session 2
1515 – 1530 BREAK
1530 – 1630 Session 3

Sunday, April 2nd 2023

730 – 800 Breakfast & Registration
800 – 1200

WORKSHOPS: Choose 3 of 4

  1. Cardiac POCUS – 4 views for beginners
    Sarah McDonald
  2. Subclavian CVC insertion and ultrasound guided advanced vascular access
    Sharon Peacock
  3. FAST/lung/optic nerve sheath diameter – one stop shop in trauma
    Michael James Ricci
  4. ACLS and critical scenarios
    Naveed Siddiqui ,Fabricio Zasso, Jesse Goldmacher, Rajesh Patel, Seema Kohout
800 – 930 Session 1
930 – 945 BREAK
945 – 1115 Session 2
1115 – 1130 BREAK
1130 – 1300 Session 3