2020 Program

Saturday, April 4, 2020

07:00 Registration and Breakfast
07:45 Welcome and Opening Remarks
Eric You-Ten

Lectures: Session One

Moderator: Eric You-Ten
Lecture program is based on a minimum of 25% of time allowed for questions and answers.
08:00 New Developments in Our Understanding of Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction
Hilary Grocott
08:25 Fixing the ‘System’: How the CMPA sees and addresses complexity
Robert Johnston
08:50 Artificial Intelligence in Anesthesia
Thomas Hemmerling
09:15 ACLS 2020: Updates and Controversies
Sev Perlman
09:45 Panel Discussion
10:00 Refreshment Break with Exhibitors

Lectures: Session Two

Moderator: Michael Dinsmore
10:30 Postoperative complications of sleep apnea patients: Fear but fear itself?
Frances Chung
10:55 Are we contributing to the Opioid Crisis! Discharge prescriptions after day surgery
Sanjho Srikandarajah
11:20 Cannabis: Canada’s Global Presence – what’s next?
Hance Clarke
11:45 Opioid Sparing Strategies in Anesthesia
Ki Jin Chin
12:15 Panel Discussion
12:30 Lunch (provided)

Problem-Based Learning Discussions/Case Discussions

Participants may select one PBL in each of the three sessions.
13:30 PBLD: Session One

  1. Pediatrics: OSA and Opioid Sparing Techniques
    Maisie Tsang and Julie Yu
  2. Disclosure of adverse events: the how & the why
    Robert Johnston
  3. Point Of Care Ultrasound case review and discussion
    Azad Mashari and Elmari Neethling
  4. Perioperative Blood Conservation
    Keyvan Karkouti
  5. Pre-operative Antibiotic Selection in Patients with Reported Penicillin Allergy: Tackling Misconceptions
    Jordan Tarshis and Philip Lam
  6. Sedation for an obese patient with sleep apnea
    Mandeep Singh
  7. Management of Head and Neck Trauma
    Jeff Wassermann
  8. Environment and Volatiles
    Nam Le
  9. Informing Practice to Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD)
    Greg Silverman
  10. Placenta abruption in a traumatic parturient
    Kristina Khanduja
  11. Perioperative management of suboxone
    Matthew Sheppard
  12. Preoperative Cardiac Evaluation for Non-Cardiac Surgery
    Dallas Duncan
14:30 Refreshment Break with Exhibitors
14:45 PBLD: Session Two – Topics repeated
15:45 Break
16:00 PBLD: Session Three– Topics repeated
17:00 Adjourn

Sunday, April 5, 2020

07:30 Registration and Breakfast
08:00 Workshops: Session One

  1. Point of Care Ultrasound
    Azad Mashari and Elmari Neethling
  2. Erector Spinae Block (ESP)
    Ki Jinn Chin and Felipe Munoz-Leyva
  3. Neuroaxial Ultrasound
    Naveed Siddiqui, Yusuke Mazda and Fergal McDonagh
  4. Front of Neck Access
    Eric You-Ten, Hilary Grocott and Evan Wild
  5. ACLS Simulation
    Nadia Primiani
  6. Advanced Hybrid Airway Techniques
    Fabricio Zasso and Daniel Cordovani
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