ANESTHESIOLOGY 2024 ANNUAL MEETING ON-DEMAND TOPICS
1. Navigating the Outpatient Joint Replacement Maze: Unraveling Controversies and Building Consensus for a Successful Program
2. Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement in 2024: Who, When, How?
3. Glucagon-like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists and Perioperative Pulmonary Aspiration: Current Evidence and Risk Mitigation
4. When OB and Cardiac Anesthesia Meet on L&D: What We Can Learn From Each Other!
5. Perioperative Management of the Aging Patient – A Practical Guide to Frailty, Cognition, and Shared Decision Making
6. Headwinds in Anesthesiology Payments and the Viability of Anesthesia Groups: Ensuring Equitable Access to Anesthesiologists
7. The Independent Contractor Anesthesiologist: Thriving in the World of 1099 Payments and Locums Work
8. Masterclass in Sepsis: Everything You Wanted to Know
9. Anesthesia for Stroke Thrombectomy: A Practice Update
10. Neonatal Anesthesia Isn’t Child’s Play: What You Need to Know
11. Women’s Health Issues During Their Careers as Anesthesiologists and How to Support Women in the Workplace
12. Basics of Heart Failure – Curbside Consult with the Experts!
13. When Is Further Cardiac Testing Appropriate?
14. Block or General: Thought-Provoking Cases for the Budding Regional Anesthesiologist
15. Anticoagulation and Regional Anesthesia: A Case-Based Approach to Avoid a Bloody Mess
16. Pediatric Anesthesia Pitfalls: What Every Anesthesiologist Should Know!
17. International Forum: Current Status of Assessing Risk of Anesthesia — Frailty, Cognitive Assessments, and Tools on the Horizon to Stratify Preoperative Risk Globally
18. FAER Panel: The Future of Pain Relief: From Pain Mechanisms and Predictive Models to Scaling Evidence-based Interventions
19. NORA Procedures in Critically Ill Patients: Preparing for Imminent Disaster
20. Healthy Body and Healthy Mind Before Surgery: Preoperative Care of the Older Adult
21. Narcotic Free Anesthesia Is The Future of Ambulatory and Office-Based Procedures
22. To Delay or Not to Delay? What to Do With a Patient Who Did Not Withhold Their GLP-1 Agonist as Directed
23. Pulmonary Hypertension – Masterclass
24. Preoperative Fasting: Does One Size Fit All?
25. Fibromyalgia, Nociplastic Pain, and Central Sensitization: Anesthetic Considerations
26. RADAR: ABCs of DEI
27. Infectious Complications Following Regional Anesthesia and Chronic Pain Procedures: Take-Home Points From the ASRA Guidelines
28. Navigate, Negotiate, Nurture: NJOY Your Career Lessons Learned in One Academic Career
29. Anesthesia for Non-Obstetric Surgery
30. Update on Opioids and Opioid Use Disorder in the Perioperative Setting: The Role of the Anesthesiologist
31. Perioperative Brain Health Protection for Aging Brains
32. Life at the Surgery Center: You Wanna do What Where??
33. Rapid-Fire Cases of Patients With High-Risk Cardiac Disease Presenting for Non-cardiac Surgery
34. Perioperative Vasoplegia: Strategies for Mitigation, Thinking Beyond the Ordinary
35. Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Perioperative Handoffs
36. What Is New in Thoracic Anesthesia? Update on the Latest Controversies in Thoracic Non-cardiac Anesthesia
37. Total Intravenous Anesthesia (TIVA) in the Ambulatory Setting: Important Considerations
38. ASRA Pain Medicine 2024: Transforming Pain Care and Education
39. Perioperative Do Not Attempt Resuscitation (DNAR) and Anesthesiology
40. Our Favorite Papers of the Year: How Will They Affect Your Practice?
41. New Perioperative Guidelines: Collaborating With the AHA in 2024
42. Mentorship Matters: The Power of Pipelines
43. Ambulatory Anesthesia News: A Review of Noteworthy Literature Published within the Last Year in Ambulatory Anesthesia
44. Integrative Medicine in Perioperative Pediatrics
45. Perioperative EEG: Where Are We Today and What Will Tomorrow Bring?
46. You Can Do That in a Preoperative Clinic?
47. Postpartum Hemorrhage: How to Prepare for It, How to Prevent It, and What to Do When Blood is Pooling on the Floor
48. Anaphylaxis, Allergy, and Adverse Drug Reactions: Perioperative Considerations
49. PoCUS Today: Is It Time to Sunset the Stethoscope?
50. Trauma Anesthesiology: Perioperative Management of the Multi-Trauma Patient
51. Hemostasis and Transfusion Controversies in Bleeding Cardiac Surgery Patients
52. Emergency Airway Management in Out-Of-OR Locations
53. Controversies and Evidence-Gaps in Perioperative Management of Severe Adult Traumatic Brain Injury
54. Hot Topics in Pediatric Anesthesia: Editor’s Selections Part 1
55. Expanding the Use of Perioperative Methadone in Your Practice!: Realizing the Benefits and Addressing Hesitancy
56. Anesthesia for Cesarean Delivery
57. Multisociety Practice Guidelines on the Safety of Neuraxial, Joint, and Peripheral Steroid Injections
58. Perioperative Management of Patients Exposed to Hallucinogens and Psychedelics
59. Updates on Nerve Blocks of the Upper Extremity
60. Clinical Pearls for the Perioperative Management of Patients with Liver Disease
61. Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology Lewis H. Wright Memorial Lecture: Influences on the Chloroform Versus Ether Debate Up To World War I
62. Optimizing RBC Mass Before Major Surgery: Increasing Patient Safety and Decreasing Blood Transfusions
63. Regenerative Medicine and the Anesthesiologist: Should We Pay Attention?
64. Hot Topics in Pediatric Anesthesia: Editor’s Selections Part 2
65. How to Make Same-Day Total Joint Arthroplasty Successful: Perspectives from Academia, Private Practice, and a Surgeon
66. Understanding Medical Accidents: What Have We Learned and Failed to Learn Over 20 Years?
67. Maternal Morbidity and Mortality from the Anesthesiologist’s Perspective
68. Lower Limb Refresher Course – Regional Anesthesia Live Scanning
69. Paging Neuroanesthesia: Common Clinical Questions from Non-Neuro Anesthesiologists
70. The Tube Went In, but Why Did My Patient Collapse?
71. Brain Freeze! How Cognitive Overload Affects Patient Safety, and How We Can Work to Overcome It
72. For Acid-Base Analysis the Stewart Method is Superior to Henderson-Hasselbalch
73. There’s More to ‘Just’ Adverse Events: Improving Data Collection, Analysis, and Transparency
74. History Panel Part 1: Humanizing History
75. Point of Care Ultrasound for Upper Airway Management
76. Evidence-Based Regional Anesthesia in Infants, Children, and Adolescents: Block by Block
77. Local Anesthetics in 2024: From Basic Pharmacology to Adjuncts
78. Practice Challenges in Thoracic Anesthesia
79. NORA Controversies: Balancing Safety and Service Demands
80. ALERT!: What Do I Need to Know About Intraoperative Neurophysiologic Monitoring?
81. Infectious Hazards for Anesthesiologists: Protecting Ourselves from Occupationally Acquired Disease
82. Teenagers and the Anesthesiologist: Consent, Assent, Pregnancy Tests, and Gender Identity
83. Anesthetic Implications of Concurrent Diseases: What to Expect When You’re NOT Expecting… That Disease
84. Nitrous for Labor Analgesia
85. Navigating the Ambulatory Surgery Universe
86. Charting the Future of Anesthesiology Education: A Consensus-Building Session
87. History Panel Part 2: Humanizing History
88. Adult Ambulatory Anesthesia: Current Controversies and Concerns
89. Update on Implantable Cardiac Rhythm Devices
90. Vexing Values: Deciphering Abnormal Preoperative Labs Through a Critical Care Lens
91. Volume Responsiveness in the Perioperative Setting
92. Crisis Management in Neuroanesthesia
93. Watch Out! Complications of Regional Anesthesia
94. Will Artificial Intelligence Transform the Practice of Anesthesiology?
95. Cardiac Secrets for Non-cardiac Anesthesiologists: Take-Home Advice From the Experts
96. Pitfalls & Challenges in ERAS Pathways: Subspecialty Perspective from Cardiac, Obstetric and Neuroanesthesia
97. It’s Often Not Simple! Pearls for Managing Challenging Patients in the Ambulatory Surgery Center
98. Asking for a Friend: Tricky Clinical Questions Answered by #OBAnes
99. Conversing Challenges: Opioid-Related Counseling in Chronic Pain
100. Large Pediatric Databases: What Have We Learnt From These?
101. Demystifying the Alphabet Soup of Quality Rankings: The Value of Anesthesiologists in Improving Hospital Quality
102. The Role of Vasopressors in Trauma
103. Should All Pediatric Patients With a URI Be Extubated Deep Following Anesthesia?
104. You Would Like Us To Administer Anesthesia Where?!
105. Acute Heart Failure and Basic Mechanical Circulatory Support for Non-Cardiac Anesthesiologists
106. Post Dural Puncture Headache (PDPH): Consensus Practice Guidelines from a Multi-society, International working group.
107. Tools vs. Toys: Using POCUS to Improve Patient Care In Pediatric Anesthesia
108. Pre-operative Drug Testing: Cannabis, Xylazines, and More
109. Quality Payment Program: Where We Are Now and Where We Are Going
110. An Update of Regional Anesthesia Research in the Last Five Years That Might Influence Our Practice
111. Cardiac Anesthesiology on the Maternity Ward and Beyond
112. 2024 Perioperative Guideline Highlights
113. The GI-CU: A Balancing Act Between Procedural Success and Patient Safety
114. Diversity In Labor Analgesia Practices Across Continents
115. Challenges and Controversies in Trauma Management
116. Neuraxial Analgesia Is Better Than Peripheral Nerve Blocks for Thoracic Noncardiac Cases: Everyone Loves a Good Controversy!
117. Challenges for Ambulatory Anesthesia in the Geriatric Patient
118. Making Airway Management Safer: Recommendations From the Experts
119. Code Mom: Critical Care Strategies for the Labor Floor
120. How to Avoid Pediatric Misadventures at Your Ambulatory Surgery Center
121. Perioperative Optimization and Monitoring: Joining the Dots!
122. Anesthetic and Analgesic Management in Outpatient Knee and Hip Arthroplasty: The New Samba and ASRA Practice Advisory
123. Perioperative Resuscitation and Life Support (PeRLS)
124. Anesthesia for Complex Spine Surgery
125. Myth busters: Anesthesia Economics Episode
126. Pre-procedural Evaluation of Patients Presenting for GI Endoscopy: Guidelines and Reality
127. Unraveling the Intricacies of Intraoperative EEG Management: a tour of three clinical cases
128. Pediatric Clear Liquid Fasting Guidelines: Clear as Mud?
129. A Case-Based Discussion of Adult Congenital Heart Disease: Tips and Tricks From the Experts
130. Contemporary Management of Lumbar Spinal Stenosis
131. Postoperative Complications: How Can We Do Better?
132. Morbidity and Mortality Conferences: What Is Current Best Practice?
133. Pathways to Leadership: Perspectives from Under-Represented Minority Leaders
134. A Multidisciplinary Inpatient Pain Service: Expanding Services for Acute, and Chronic Pain, and Regional Anesthesia
135. International Forum: Anesthesia for the Global Burden of Cancer
136. Safety Myths: Lessons from the ASA Patient Safety Editorial Board
137. Perioperative Approaches to Prevention and Management of Organ Dysfunction: Rapid-Fire Pragmatic Pearls from the ICU
138. Hypercoagulable States: Implications for Perioperative Care
139. Advances in Airway Management: The Era of Sugammadex
140. Mechanical Support for the Non-Cardiac Anesthesiologist: Maintaining Your Pulse When the Patient Loses Pulsatility
141. Perioperative Lung Disease: Are Women at Increased Risk?
142. Well-Being in Anesthesiology: Intersections With Quality and Safety; Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion; and Career Development
143. A Practical Guide to Anesthesia in Neuroradiology for the Occasional Neuroanesthesiologist
144. Updates in the Perioperative Management of Patients With Diabetes
145. Preoperative Conundrums: Now What???
146. Defining the Essence of a Safe Office-Based Practice: the Paradigm of 6 P’s
147. Get With the Guidelines! Pearls From Recent Publications to Improve the Practice of Cardiac Surgery
148. Blood Pressure Management in the Operating Room
149. Golden Opportunities in the Golden Years: Comprehensive Care for Geriatric Patients
150. Is Albumin Safe For Patients Undergoing Craniotomy?
151. Are Preoperative Clinics or Programs Really Worth the Effort? The Pro-Con Debate Continues
152. Global Critical Care: Relevant Lessons from Across the Globe
153. How the Aging Population Impacts Medicare Stability: Perspectives on the Impact on Anesthesiologists and Hospitals
154. Mastering the Moment: Labor Epidural Breakthrough Pain Assessment and Management
155. Accreditation Organizations in Health Care: What Every Anesthesiologist Should Know
156. Awake Intubation Made Easy!
157. Novel and Emerging Nonopioid Postoperative Analgesics
158. Be the Change You Want to See in the World: Greening the Operating Rooms and Perioperative Arena
159. Disparate Teens Call For Disparate Measures: Managing Challenges in Ambulatory Care for Teenagers
160. Emerging Blood Management Strategies for Intracranial Surgery: The Products, the Pharma, and POC Testing
161. What should the Pediatric Anesthesiologist know about Congenital Heart Disease?
162. From OR 7 to the C-Suite: How Can You Prepare and Be Ready to Make Your Next Move?
163. Pediatric Perioperative Emergencies: Laryngospasm, Bronchospasm, and Emergence Delirium, Oh My!
164. Successful Latin American Experiences of ERAS Implementation
165. Drowning in the Desert: An Interactive Case-Based Fluid Debate
166. Central Neuraxial Blocks vs. Fascial Plane Blocks for Major Pediatric Surgery: An Evidence-Based Pro-Con Debate
167. To Sleep or Not to Sleep: Can Elective Cesarean Delivery for Placenta Accreta Spectrum Be Safely Performed Under RA?
168. Delirium Pathophysiology and Risk Factors Across the Perioperative Journey
169. Obstetric Anesthesiology Maternal Disparities Tool Kit
170. Regional, Acute Pain, and PoCUS: Fundamentals of Billing Every Clinician Should Know
171. Anesthesiology to the Rescue: Managing the Unstable Patient in the OR, PACU, ICU and Beyond
172. Cardiac Conundrums: What the Noncardiac Anesthesiologist Needs to Know
173. Say what? Enhancing Patient Safety Through Improved Communication
174. Transthoracic Echocardiography in the Perioperative Setting: A Case-Based Discussion
175. Pro vs. Con: Factor Concentrates as 1st-line Agents in Post-bypass Coagulopathy
176. Protocolization vs. Personalization in Pediatric Anesthesia
177. Preoperative Pregnancy Testing for Elective Surgery: Necessity, Consent, and Confidentiality in a Post-roe World
178. Unlocking the Mysteries of Vasoplegia: Navigating Risks, Diagnosis, and Future Treatment Options
179. Building a Better Mousetrap: Novel Anesthetics, Analgesics, and Reversal Agents
180. Evaluation of Short- and Long-Term Outcome Metrics When Considering Acute Pain Treatment in Patients with Opioid Use Disorder
181. Labor Analgesia
182. From Survival to Recovery: Evidence-Based Care for ICU Patients in the OR
183. Implementing Regional and Acute Pain in Busy Clinical Practice: Tools for Success
184. Managing Emergencies in NORA: Is It Really That Different From the OR?
185. Acidosis in the OR and ICU: Thinking Beyond the Lactate
186. Pediatric MRI Under Anesthesia for Evaluating Developmental Delay: Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze?
187. Cervical Spinal Cord Injury: Management Concerns and Strategies to Improve Outcomes in Emergency Decompression/Fusion Cases
188. Beyond L & D
189. The New Paradigm of Multimodal Analgesia in Enhanced Recovery for Cardiac Patients: What Does the Literature Say?
190. Acute Pain Management in Special Populations: Is There a Need for Personalized Medicine?
191. Take a Deep Breath: Coping With Macro and Microaggression in Anesthesia and Pain Management
192. Outpatient Ambulatory Surgery Satisfaction: Beyond I Can’t Get No
193. Anti-coagulation and Hemostasis Challenges in Cardiac Surgery and ICU Patients
194. The Promises and Potential Pitfalls of Artificial Intelligence in Cardiac Anesthesia: Clinical Care, Education, and Research
195. Difficult Conversations and Navigation Strategies
196. Navigating the Challenges of Fasting with Diabetes Mellitus: A Delicate Balance
197. Pain Management for Patients Undergoing Elective Craniotomy
198. Standard Epidural vs. CSE vs. DPE: A Three-Way Debate to Determine the Optimal Labor Epidural Technique
199. Everything to Know Regarding New Devices in the Perioperative Space
200. The Business Case for Sustainability in Anesthesiology
201. Implications of Severe Liver Disease on Perioperative Management for Non-Transplant Procedures
202. Emerging Pediatric Regional Blocks: What the Practitioner Should Know