Preliminary Agenda

Saturday March 28th

07:30

Registration and Breakfast

08:00

Welcome and Opening Remarks

08:15

Keynote 1
From shortage to strategy: Physician Anesthesia Workforce Planning in Canada

Bev Orser

09:00

Q&A and Discussion

09:15

Keynote 2
Increasing Anesthesia Bandwidth – Pediatric Anesthesia Assistants as Physician Extenders

Tobias Everett

10:00

Q&A and Discussion

10:15

BREAK

10:45

Developing a Hip Fracture Pathway in Vancouver – an On-going Quality Improvement Project.
Trina Montemurro

11:15

Quality Improvement: More Than a Metric
Tariq Esmail

11:45

Q&A and Discussion

12:00

LUNCH

1:00-
4:30pm

Problem Based Learning Discussion Sessions will run at the following times: 13:00, 14:15 and 15:30

  1. Teaching/Education in Anesthesia
    Urooj Siddiqui
  2. Surviving a Lawsuit
    Lucie Filteau
  3. AI
    Arnaud Mbadjeu Hondjeu
  4. Up to Code: The Impact of Recent Updates to ACLS Guidelines
    Jennifer Stapley
  5. Perioperative Encounters with Neurodivergent Patient
    James Robertson & Brendan Morgan
  6. Non-opioid pain alternatives
    Puneet Sayal
  7. Why Are Our Patients Still in Pain in PACU?
    Fernanda S Lanza Oliveira
  8. Hematology
    Zachary Liederman
  9. When the Epidural Misbehaves: A Journey Through Labour Analegsia Troubleshooting
    Jeroen De Haes
  10. Pacemaker
    Andrew Ha
  11. Pressure Makes the Difference: When Hyperbaric Oxygen Helps
    Diana Tamir

Sunday March 29th

07:30

Registration and Breakfast

08:00

Workshops: Session One

  1. Workshop 1: eFONA
    Daniel Cordovani
  2. Workshop 2: How to Gamify Anything and Everything 
    Natalie Clavel
  3. Workshop 3: Gastric U/S
    Laura Giron Arango, Camila Arango-Ferreira
  4. Workshop 4: Lower Extermity Blocks
    Sinead Campbell, Mike Ricci
09:30

Refreshment Break with Exhibitors

09:45

Workshops: Session Two

Topics repeated

11:15

Break

11:30

Workshops: Session Three

Topics repeated

13:00

Adjourn