Anesthesiology Update 2022

Anesthesiology Update 2022 is organized by Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School and will be held from May 09 - 13, 2022.

Who Should Attend:
• Anesthesiologists
• Nurse Anesthetists
• Anesthesiologist Assistants
• Residents and Fellows
• Student Nurse Anesthetists

Description:
The Comprehensive 2022 Anesthesiology Update 
Cardiac, Regional, Office-Based, Thoracic, Obstetric, Neuro, and Pediatric
This comprehensive CME program provides a special and timely opportunity for anesthesiologists, nurse anesthetists and others with interest in the field to hear directly from world-renowned specialists and master clinicians about these changes.

The curriculum at Anesthesiology Update 2022 ensures not only that attendees leave with a comprehensive understanding of the latest advances, risk mitigation strategies and anesthesiology guidelines, but also with specific recommendations to incorporate these updates into practice. 

The format is engaging and attendees are encouraged to pose questions of the national and international experts who will be delivering the updates and education at this event. 

Updates, best practices and new guidelines cover:
• Anesthesia mortality and complications
• COVID-19 and the anesthesia practitioner
• Care of the parturient
• Complex clinical challenges
• Ideal monitor of awareness
• Simpler enhanced recovery bundle
• Non-operating room anesthesia: advances and challenges
• Carbon footprint of volaile anesthetic agents
• Neurotoxicity in infants
• Sex, gender and perioperative outcomes
• Management of perioperative brain and heart failure
• Artificial intelligence in anesthesia practice
• Point-of-care ultrasound
• Postoperative cognitive dysfunction: risk management
• Perioperative acute kidney injury
• Value-based care in geriatric patients
• Perioperative issues for gender-diverse youth
• Minimizing complications in regional anesthesia
• Clinician wellness
• The critically ill patient in the operating room
• Risk mitigation
• End-of-life care
• Participants will take away important guidelines and checklists that they can put to immediate use in their anesthesia practice.

Program Highlights:
2022 Guidelines, New Innovations, Challenging Cases, and State-of-the-Art Clinical and Patient Safety Updates in the areas of:
• Regional anesthesia
• Cardiac anesthesia
• Critical care medicine
• Ambulatory anesthesia, office-based anesthesia
• Pediatric anesthesia
• Obstetric anesthesia
• Thoracic anesthesia
• Perioperative transfusion medicine
• Neuroanesthesia
• Clinician wellness
• Pain management
• Patient safety and risk reduction 
• Enhanced recovery after surgery

Important Drug Updates:
• Anesthetic drugs in the development pipeline 
• Anesthetic neurotoxicity
• Total intravenous anesthesia
• Inhalational anesthetics
• New hypnotics
• Medical marijuana

Covid-19 Updates for the Anesthesia Practitioner:
• Ventilator management in COVID patients
• Care of the parturient with COVID-19 and sepsis
• End-of-life care in COVID patients
• Perioperative health policy: our role in a post-pandemic world
• Managing a multigenerational team through a pandemic and beyond
• Hospice care during the pandemic
• Care of post-COVID patients
• Clinician wellness during COVID-19

Optimized for Remote Education:
The 2022 program has been enhanced for distance learning. In addition to being live streamed, all sessions will be recorded and made available to participants for online viewing for 30 days after the end of the course. 

Coverage Areas:
This conference provides new practice recommendations and comprehensive updates across all subspecialties in the field of anesthesiology, including:
• Ambulatory
• Cardiac
• Critical Care
• Obstetric
• Pain Management
• Pediatric
• Regional
• Thoracic

Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
• Apply principles for practicing perioperative ultrasound 
• Diagnose and develop a treatment plan for cerebrovascular emergencies
• Recognize best practices in preoperative evaluation and risk assessment 
• Integrate updated guidelines into practice when managing the difficult airway
• Implement current principles for appropriate opioid use and pain management
• Interpret the latest evidence-based practices in obstetric anesthesia
• Incorporate multimodal general anesthesia and enhanced recovery into clinical practice 
• Use best practices in managing patients with morbid obesity and sleep apnea
• Integrate evidence-based protocols when practicing regional anesthesia
• Identify new drugs that can be incorporated into anesthesia practice