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2026 Overall Annual Meeting Evaluation
 

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Section 1 Sessions

Friday, June 5, 2026

2:15 pm - 3:00 pm (ET)

• Lessons Learned from Transplant Anesthesia

3:15 pm - 4:00 pm (ET)
 

• What Patients With Pain Tried to Tell Us: Lessons for Every Anesthesiologist

4:15 pm - 5:45 pm (ET)

• Opening Session: Striving and Thriving in Anesthesia: Lessons From Our CAS Gold Medalists

Saturday, June 6, 2026

8:00 am - 9.45 am (ET)
 

• Opening Ceremony & Keynote: Access the Pause: The Cognitive Edge in Modern Anesthesiology 
   

10:15 am - 11:45 am​ (ET)

 

• Better Prepared, Better Recovered: Best Practices in Prehabilitation
• From Operating Rooms to Combat Zones - The Evolving Mission of Canadian Anesthesiologists in Uniform
• From Error Traps to Excellence: Practical Pediatric Strategies for Safe and Effective Tonsillectomy Care
• Cutting-Edge Collaboration: What You Should Know About Surgical Approaches and Innovation in the OR

12:45 pm - 2:15 pm (ET)
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• CAS Discovery Talk
• Patient Complaints in Obstetric Anesthesia
• Practice Changing Clinical Trials, Implications for Clinical Practice and Science: A Joint Session of the Canadian PACT and IARS
• Total Intravenous Anesthesia: Principles, Precision, and the Brain
• Sustainable Shift: Climate-Ready Anesthesia in a Warming World

2:45 pm - 4:15 pm (ET)
 

• Navigating the Legal Landscape of Obstetric Anesthesia: Lessons From Litigation
• CJA Panel: Artificial Intelligence and Anesthesiology Research: Balancing Innovations, Risks, and Responsibilities
• Beyond Safety Reporting: Re-Examining the Uncomfortable Truths – Its Past, Purpose, and Future
• Resetting the Pain System With Three Non-Opioid Strategies
• From Oceans to Orbit: Anesthesia Innovation From Freediving Depths to Spaceflight Heights

4:45 pm - 6:15 pm (ET)
 

• Psychological Safety in Critical Teams: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Improve It
• TIVA in Obstetric Anesthesia? Really?
• Echo Jeopardy: Test Your Knowledge in Perioperative Echocardiography
• Practical Perioperative Pharmacology: Pros and Cons to Anesthetic Adjuncts
• Reimagining Wellness and Professional Culture in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine

Sunday, June 7, 2026

8:00 am - 9:30 am (ET)

• President’s Symposium: Meeting the Challenge: The Evolving Landscape of Anesthesia Care Delivery in Canada

10:00 am - 11:30 am (ET)

• Inside CAS: Strategy, Advocacy and the Road Ahead
• Mechanical Cardiac Assist Devices (MCADs): What Should a Non-Cardiac Anesthesiologist Know?
• From Aspiration to Accreditation: Step-by-Step to Canadian Licensure in Anesthesiology
• Pain Management in War and in Garrison & Beyond the Mask: Women Shaping the Future of Anesthesiology in Canada

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm (ET)
 

• A Team-Based Approach to Perioperative Management of Pulmonary Hypertension
• Nerve Injury Guidelines: Debunking Dogma and Driving Evidence-Based Practice
• From Discovery to Impact: The Future of Anesthesiology Through CARF
• Not Another Wellness Talk: What Can Residents Actually Do to Maintain Their Wellness?
• Debate: EEG Monitoring Should Be Standard for all General Anesthetics? & Spontaneous Spinal CSF Leaks: A Look Beyond the Dural Puncture

2:30 pm - 3:15 pm (ET)
 

• Guidelines for Regional Anesthesia in the Anticoagulated Patient
• The Pause Before the Cut: Rethinking Goals of Care in the OR for Major Surgery
• Building a Better Residency: Practical Steps to Improve Wellness and Culture

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm (ET)

• Closing Symposium: Optimizing the Surgical Journey: Innovations From Pre-Op to Home

 

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sECTION 3 pROGRAMS

ACE It! Prep Course for the Royal College Exam

Friday, June 5, 2026

7:30 am - 5:30 pm (ET)
 

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

Saturday, June 6, 2026

10:15 am - 12:15 pm (ET)
 

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

Expert insightS

Friday, June 5, 2026

11:00 am - 11:45 am​ (ET)
 

• Infection Prevention in Regional Anesthesia and Our Planet 
• Placenta Accreta Spectrum: Contemporary Anesthesia Practice in a Changing Surgical Landscape
• Design to Deliver: A 45-Minute Blueprint for High-Impact Medical Education and Professional Development Activities

1:15 pm - 2:00 pm (ET)
 

• Navigating the Difficult Spinal Anesthetic
• Delivering Better Care: Leading Quality Improvement in Obstetric Anesthesia

1:15 pm - 3:00 pm (ET)

• Artificial Intelligence in Perioperative Medicine: Practical Tools for Clinicians, Educators and Healthcare Leaders 

2:15 pm - 3:00 pm (ET)
 

• Navigating the Aftermath: Supporting Patients Through Birth Trauma 

3:15 pm - 4:00 pm (ET)

• Neurosurgical Procedures at Remote Locations: Consideration and Challenges
• Practicing With Intention: Transforming Dogma and Culture in Anesthesia
• Updates in Perioperative Transfusion 

PBLDS

Saturday & SUNDAY, June 6 & 7, 2026

7:00 am - 7:50 am (ET)

• Speaking Up in the OR: Microaggressions and Allyship in Anesthesia
• Perioperative Management of Patients with Advanced Heart Failure for Non-Cardiac Surgery
• Resuscitation in the Prone Position
• Perioperative Management of Patients With Neurologic Stimulator Devices
• A Cardiac Patient Just Arrived on the Labour and Delivery Unit – Now What?
• When Minutes Matter: Pediatric Massive Hemorrhage and the 7Ts of Rapid Recovery

WORKSHOPS

Friday, June 5, 2026

8: 00 am - 12:00 pm (ET)
 

• WORKSHOP: Perioperative POCUS Workshop

10:00 am - 11:45 am​ (ET)

• WORKSHOP: Airway Ultrasound Workshop

1:15 pm - 3:00pm (ET)
 

• WORKSHOP: In Doubt? Scan It Out! Hands-On Gastric Ultrasound for Aspiration Risk Assessment 
• WORKSHOP: TCI and TIVA - Pump It Up!

1:15 pm - 4:15 pm (ET)
 

• WORKSHOP: The Physician’s Reset: Clinical Mindfulness & The Art of Tangible Creation

Saturday, June 6, 2026

10:15 am - 11:45 pm (ET)
 

• WORKSHOP: Ultrasound-Guided Regional Anesthesia Workshop: Regional Anesthesia for Chest Trauma and Ask Me Anything! With an Expert

12:45 pm - 2:15 pm (ET)
 

• WORKSHOP: Ultrasound-Guided Regional Anesthesia Workshop: Abdominal and Lower Limb Plan A Blocks and Blocks for Abdominal Surgery

2:45 pm - 4:15 pm (ET)
 

• WORKSHOP: Ultrasound-Guided Regional Anesthesia Workshop: Upper Limb Plan A Blocks and Ask Me Anything! With an Expert

sUNDAY, June 22, 2025

10:00 am - 2:00 pm (ET)
 

• WORKSHOP: Managing the Pediatric Airway in the Community: Confidence, Competence, and Crisis Readiness