2025 Annual Meeting Evaluations

Please select your session from the list below. Your input is critical to helping CAS shape our future educational programming.

2025 Overall Annual Meeting Evaluation
 

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Section-1 Sessions

Friday, June 20, 2025

 

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm​ (NT)

• Balancing the Scales: Global Health Burdens, Sustainable Policy and Ethical Insights 

Saturday, June 21, 2025

8:00 am - 9:45 am (NT)

• Opening Ceremony & Keynote: The Roadmap to Success 

10:15 am - 11:45 am​ (NT)
 

• Feeling Full Yet? The Ongoing GLP-1 Agonist Saga
• Show Me the Evidence: RA Updates 
• Complications in Obstetric Anesthesia and Birth Trauma 
• CASIEF Symposium - Subspecialty Anesthesia Training in Resource-Limited Setting 

12:45 pm - 2:15 pm​ (NT)
 

• CJA Symposium: From Inquiry to Insight in Anesthesiology: Are We Asking the Right Questions and Optimizing Methodology?
• Code OB: Navigating High-Stakes Emergencies in Obstetric Anesthesia 
• Challenging Situations in the Thoracics Operating Room 
• Evidence-Based Guidelines for Postoperative Management of Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Insights from SASM-SAMBA-SOCCA Tri-Society Collaborative Guidelines 
• Pediatric Tonsillectomy: Colds, Pain and Bleeding-the Merry-Go-Around! 

2:45 pm - 4:15 pm (NT)
 

• Big Data From a Small Country - Exploring the Impact of Obstetric Anaesthesia on Maternal and Childhood Health Outcomes & Leveraging Data and Understanding Artificial Intelligence to Improve Perioperative Care 
• Smart, Surprising, and Sustainable: The Future of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine? 
• Teaming up to Enhance Anesthesia Care in Rural and Remote Canada 
• Airway Management in Austere Environment Symposium & *Apnoeic Oxygenation - The Higher The Flow, The Longer You Go? 
• 13th Annual Anesthesia History Symposium - Laryngoscopes, Endotracheal Tubes, and Other Historical Equipment: Past and Future Standards Important to Anesthesia & Innovation in Education: What Does the Future Hold? 

4:45 pm - 6:15 pm​ (NT)
 

• Anesthesia and the Vulnerable Brain 
• Echo Jeopardy: Test Your Knowledge in Perioperative Echocardiography 
• Physician Contracts - What you Really Need to Know as a Physician and as a Leader 
• Dexmedetomidine in Obstetric Anesthesia: Putting Theory Into Practice 
• Lessons Learned from Solid Organ Transplantation: Managing the Patients with Severe Organ Dysfunction Undergoing Non-Transplant Surgery 

Sunday, June 22, 2025

8:00 am - 9:30 am (NT)

• President's Symposium: From Burnout to Balance: Promoting Civility and Engagement in the OR 

10:00 am - 11:30 am (NT)
 

• CAS Discovery Talk 
• Anesthesiologists Out of the OR: Opportunity or Overstretch? 
• Personalization and Protocolization in the Perioperative Period: Are They Antithetical, or Can They Work Together? 
• Critical Care Update on Mechanical Ventilation, Traumatic Brain Injury and Trauma Anesthesia 

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm​ (NT)
 

• Sounds that Save Lives, POCUS in Anesthesiology 
• Investigating Traditions, Dogmas and Myths in Clinical Anesthesia Practice: What are Contemporary Facts? 
• John Wade Symposium - Quality Improvement and Patient Safety in AI 
• Care of the Parturient with a Neurosurgical Condition 
• Oh The Places You'll Go: A Panel on Unique Fellowship Opportunities 

2:30 pm - 3:15 pm​ (NT)
 

• VR is the New Kid on the Block and Simulation will be Obsolete in RA Education - PRO/CON Debate 
• Pain Management for Spine Surgery 
• Recent Advances and Future Directions in Ambulatory Anesthesia 
• Perioperative and Critical Care Resuscitative TEE, Ready for Prime Time 
• Diamonds Are Forever: The Critical Role of Calcium in Trauma 

3:30 pm - 3:45 pm​ (NT)

• Closing Symposium: Task Shifting and Task Sharing in Evolving Canadian Anesthesiology Care Models

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PBLDS 

Saturday, June 21 - Sunday, June 22, 2025

7:00 am - 7:50 am (NT)

• Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitiation in Pregnancy
• Dispelling Fears of Managing Patients with Pulmonary Hypertension
• Enhanced Recovery After Massive Hemorrhage in Children: Triggers, Transfusions and Transfer
• Failed Spinal Anesthesia for Cesarean Section: Practical Strategies
• Going, Going...Gone! Pitfalls of Procedural Sedation in Complex Patients 
• Green OR in Cardiac Surgery: TIVA or Gas?
• Help! I've Been Called to Radiology for an Acute Stroke!
• How to Move the Needle in Environmental Sustainability Initiatives in Healthcare?
• Kids that Need Extra Care: How to Get my Anxious Patient into the OR? 
• Managing Patients on GLP-1 Agonist
• OR Efficiency: Work Smarter Not Harder 
• Perioperative Management of Patient with Multiopioid Use Disorder (MOUD)
• Perioperative Serious Illness Conversations: A Function Approach to Proficiency

10:15 am - 11:45 am (NT)
 

• Ace it! A Prep Course for the Royal College Exam - PBLD

 

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Workshops & sECTION 3 pROGRAMS

Friday, June 20, 2025

7:30 am - 5:30 pm (NT)
 

• Ace it! A Prep Course for the Royal College Exam

7:30 am - 4:00 pm (NT)
 

• Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Workshop: Basic
• Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Workshop: Advanced

1:00 pm - 3:45 pm​ (NT)

• CAS Expert Insights Program

Saturday, June 21, 2025

10:15 am - 11:45 am (NT)
 

• Ultrasound-Guided Regional Anesthesia Workshop: Total Joint Arthroplasty on Upper Limb

12:45 pm - 2:15 pm (NT)
 

• Ultrasound-Guided Regional Anesthesia Workshop: Lower Limb Arthroplasty Surgery

2:45 pm - 4:15 pm (NT)
 

• Ultrasound-Guided Regional Anesthesia for Obstetric and Abdominal Surgery

SUNDAY, June 22, 2025

10:00 am - 11:30 am (NT)
 

• Airway POCUS

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm (NT)
 

• Ultrasound-Guided Regional Anesthesia Workshop for Cardiothoracic Surgery

2:30 pm - 3:15 pm​ (NT)
 

• This Ain't Your Old School Bell Ringer Examination: The Escape Room