Aspen Anesthesia Seminar 2025

Aspen Anesthesia Seminar 2025 is organized by Holiday Seminars, Inc. and will be held from Feb 01 - 08, 2025 at Viceroy Snowmass, Snowmass Village, Colorado, United States of America.

Course Objectives:
To review related physiology, pharmacology, agents and techniques that contribute to the art and science of anesthesiology. To discuss new agents, techniques, and controversies in the field, assisting the participant in preparing better patient care plans.

Lecture Objectives

• Discuss the most common vasopressor medications that ICU patients are on and how to manage them in the OR.
• Compare the pharmacologic labor and cesarean management of DPE, versus CSE and EPL techniques.
• Explain how to safely manage cardiac stent patients in the perioperative period.
• Discuss pharmacologic risk factors for emergence agitation in children, and review the current evidence for pharmacologic and nonpharma interventions for prevention and management of emergence agitation.
• Discuss the changes that you could make to improve your practice as a result of attending the panel discussion.
• Discuss what elements make neuraxial techniques more difficult, and examine labor analgesic options if neuraxial techniques cannot be placed.
• List the common reasons for failure of the coagulation mechanisms.
• Describe the evidence for personalized PEEP and Tidal Volume in the OR.
• Outline how a history of marijuana use can affect the perioperative anesthetic management of patients, and list the pharmacologic changes recommended for these patients.
• List the changes that you will make to your practice as a result of the suggestions presented in the Panel Discussion.
• Define approaches to anesthesia care that optimize functional recovery for patients after major surgery.
• Explain the effects of sodium bicarbonate on patient physiology.
• List the tools recommended that you can implement to help reconnect with passion and purpose in your medical practice.
• Review common clinical cases that present analgesia and anesthesia management issues, and discuss how risk- and evidence-based analyses can assist in decision making.
• List the ideas discussed in the panel that will improve your clinical performance.
• List the recommended drugs and their doses to treat allergic reactions and anaphylaxis.
• Discuss how social media can be utilized professionally to enhance anesthesia careers.
• Describe how to assess a patient's risk and what constitutes a valid reason for cancelling a case.
• Review the latest evidence on the effects of anesthesia on neurocognitive outcomes in children.
• Discuss the changes that you could make to improve your practice as a result of attending the panel discussion.
• Discuss why specific labs are necessary preoperatively to help diagnose unidentified medical conditions in patients.
• Identify optimal dosing regimens for oxytocin and alternative uterotonic agents during Cesarean delivery.