Please select your session from the list below. Your input is critical to helping CAS shape our future educational programming.
Friday June 9
Basic POCUS
Advanced POCUS
[REGIONAL] French-Speaking Regional Nerve Block Workshop
Saturday June 10
7:15 am - 8:15 am
8:30 am - 10:00 am
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm
4:50 pm - 5:35 pm
Sunday June 11
7:15 am - 8:15 am
8:30 am - 10:00 am
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Monday June 12
8:00 am - 9:30 am
9:45 am - 11:15 am
11:35 am - 1:05 pm
Saturday June 10
7:15 am - 8:15 am
[NEURO] Perioperative Management of a Patient Undergoing ORIF for Hip Fracture with Recent Traumatic Brain Injury
[NEURO] Perioperative Management of Patients with Neurodegenerative Disease, Including Alzheimer’s Disease
[REGIONAL] Prevention and Management of Rebound Pain After Peripheral Nerve Blockade
[PEDS] Tonsillectomy in Children: Avoiding the Pitfalls
[OB] Is my Epidural Good Enough for C-Section?
[PERIOP] Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors - Implications in Perioperative Patient Care
[ENVIRO] Myth Buster: Balancing Safety and Practicality for Environmentally Sustainable Practice
[REGIONAL] Avoiding, Assessing and Managing Peripheral Nerve Injuries after Peripheral Nerve Block
[PERIOP] Everyone's Nightmare: The Dreaded Out-of-OR Emergency Difficult Airway
[CVT] Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction, the Dark Side of the Moon
8:30 am - 10:00 am
Keynote - State of Play: CMA Advocacy and the Impact on Canada's Anesthesiologists
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
[CHRONIC PAIN] Perioperative Use of Opioid in the Context of Opioid Epidemic; Opioid-Free Anesthesia and the Acute Care Opioid Prescribing
[PERIOP] Physician Sociocultural Identity and Patient Outcome
[RESIDENTS] Residents' Competition
[REGIONAL] Workshop: Advanced Regional Nerve Blocks for Peripheral Limbs (Additional fee)
[PATIENT SAFETY] Workshop: QI in Times of Limited Resources: Secrets for You and Your Patients' Success
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
[OB] Cesarean Pain: Reducing the Harm
[AMB] Day-to-Day Challenges in Ambulatory Anesthesia
Richard Knill Competition
[REGIONAL] Workshop: Abdominal Truncal Block (Additional fee)
[RESIDENTS] Life Beyond Residency: An Exploration of Career Paths and Lifestyle
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm
[ENVIRO] Change for the Better: How to Initiate Environmental Sustainability Changes Within our Canadian Healthcare System and at the Local Level?
[CARF] Perioperative Frailty: Using Research to Guide the Journey to Better Outcomes for our Most Vulnerable Patients
[CHIEFS] Managing Unprofessional Behavior in the Perioperative Environment
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm
[PEDS] Common Challenges for the Community Pediatric Anesthesiologist
[ARCHIVES] 11th Annual Anesthesia History Symposium
[NEURO] Practical Approaches to Manage Common Perioperative Neurological Emergencies
4:50 pm - 5:35 pm
[OB] Post-Partum Hemorrhage: A Focus on Coagulation
[CHRONIC PAIN] Regional Technique Perioperatively to Prevent Chronic Post-Surgical Pain Review and Updates, or Additives/Adjuncts
[CVT] Frontiers in CVT: Valve Replacements Without the Sternotomy – What all Anesthesiologists Should Know about TAVIs and Clips
Sunday June 11
7:15 am - 8:15 am
[CVT] Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction, the Dark Side of the Moon
[REGIONAL] Avoiding, Assessing and Managing Peripheral Nerve Injuries after Peripheral Nerve Block
[NEURO] Perioperative Management of a Patient Undergoing ORIF for Hip Fracture with Recent Traumatic Brain Injury
[NEURO] Perioperative Management of Patients with Neurodegenerative Disease, Including Alzheimer’s Disease
[REGIONAL] Prevention and Management of Rebound Pain After Peripheral Nerve Blockade
[PEDS] Tonsillectomy in Children-Avoiding the Pitfalls
[OB] Is my Epidural Good Enough for C-Section?
[PERIOP] Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors - Implications in Perioperative Patient Care
[ENVIRO] Myth Buster: Balancing Safety and Practicality for Environmentally Sustainable Practice
[PERIOP] Everyone's Nightmare: The Dreaded Out-of-OR Emergency Difficult Airway
8:30 am - 10:00 am
[REGIONAL] Hot Topics in Regional Anesthesia
[PATIENT SAFETY] The John Wade Patient Safety Symposium: Canadian Success in Quality Improvement: How PREHAB & ERaS transformed B.C.
[CVT] Navigating the Mine Field of Coronary Stents in Your Patient with Severe CAD
[REGIONAL] Workshop: Essential Regional Nerve Blocks for Peripheral Limbs (Additional fee)
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
[PRESIDENT] The Future of Anesthesia Delivery in Canada: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
[NEURO] Current Concepts in the Perioperative Management of Patients Undergoing Complex Spine Surgery
[CJA] CJA Symposium: Does it Matter What We Do? Recent Landmark RCTs and Systematic Reviews That Challenge Dogma
[CRITICAL CARE] Critical Care Update on Management of ICP, Shock and ARDS Focused on Perioperative Care
[REGIONAL] Workshop: Chest Wall Block (additional fee)
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm
[PEDS] Pierres Limoges Pediatric Lecture - Entitled: "PAIN MATTERS!"
[NEURO] Top 5 Articles in Perioperative Neuroscience 2022
[CASIEF] CASIEF Symposium 2023:The Impact of Climate Change on Global Health and How Canadian Anesthesiologists Can Help
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
[REGIONAL] Controversies in Regional Anesthesia
[NEURO] Current Concepts in the Perioperative Management of Patients Undergoing Craniotomy
[CVT] ECHO Jeopardy and CVT Section Annual Meeting
[OB] Fasting during Labour: Debate - Let them Eat Cake vs. Put the Fork Down
[AMB] Ambulatory Anesthesia: The Past, Present, and Future!
Monday June 12
8:00 am - 9:30 am
[PERIOP] Does your Anesthesiologist Matter: Specialty Teams - What's the Evidence?
[REGIONAL] Challenges in Perioperative Pain Management
9:45 am - 11:15
[OB] Maternal Experience and Outcomes: Improving the Care we Provide
[PEDS] Triple "A" Pediatric Anesthesia Care for Anxiety, Agitation and Algesia
11:35 am - 1:05 pm
[Closing Ceremony] Managing the Medication Safety Landscape: Employing National, Departmental and Personal Strategies