IARS 2022 Annual Meeting – March 18-20, 2022

The in-person meetings for IARS, AUA, and SOCCA have been cancelled and the meetings will be held virtually. View the full statement here.

All program times are Eastern Time (ET). 

*Problem-based learning discussions and ticketed workshops have limited spots available and require pre-registration with an additional registration fee.

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Friday, March 18, 2022

Plenary Session: Perioperative Mental Health: From Neural Circuits to Implementation
10:00 am – 11:00 am ET

Break
11:00 am – 11:15 am ET

Plenary Session: MAC, Models, Mitochondria & Metabolism
11:15 am – 12:15 pm ET

*Problem-Based Learning Discussion: Can there be “Against Medical Advice” Discharge to Home from the PACU?
11:15 am – 12:15 pm ET

Break
12:15 pm – 12:30 pm ET

Plenary Session: Moving Past Burnout, Let’s Talk Engagement! Exploring Antecedents of Engagement to Improve Morale, Wellness and Performance
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm ET

*Problem-Based Learning Discussion: Pudendal Neuralgia: More Common Than You Think
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm ET

Break
1:30 pm – 1:45 pm ET

Plenary Session: Applying Molecular and Systems Neuroscience to Develop Reversal Agents for General Anesthesia (Co-Sponsored by the Society for Neuroscience in Anesthesiology and Critical Care)
1:45 pm – 2:45 pm ET

Break
2:45 pm – 3:00 pm ET

eSAS Session: Panel: Making Mentorship Work
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm ET

Break
4:00 pm – 4:15 pm ET

Aligned Session with IARS, AUA and SOCCA: Anesthesia & Analgesia Sponsored Journal Symposium
4:15 pm – 5:30 pm ET

Saturday, March 19, 2022

Opening Session and T.H. Seldon Memorial Lecture
10:00 am – 11:30 am ET

T. H. Seldon Memorial Lecture – Harder, better, faster, stronger: The beneficial legacy of COVID19 for perioperative healthcare
S. Ramani Moonesinghe

Read more about Dr. Moonesinghe here.

 

Break
11:30 am – 11:45 am ET

*Ticketed Workshop: Enhanced Recovery with Regional Anesthesia: Ultrasound-Guided Interfascial Plane Blocks Workshop
11:45 am – 1:15 pm ET

Concurrent Sessions
11:45 am – 12:45 pm ET

  1. Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists Session: Review Course Lecture: Systemic Anticoagulation and ECMO: Conventional versus Contemporary Approach
  2. Association of University Anesthesiologists Session: Does Risk Prediction Improve Patient Outcomes
  3. Joint IARS and World Federation of Societies of Anesthesiologists (WFSA) Session: Modern Perioperative Concepts in Patients with Cardiovascular Risk
  4. Debate: Opioid Free Anesthesia for Spine Surgery: Harmful Hoax or Imperative Innovation?

Break & Open Poster Viewing
12:45 pm – 2:00 pm ET

*Problem-Based Learning Discussion: “Why Is the Arm Still Numb?” What I Should Know and Do About Peripheral Nerve Injury (PNI) After Regional Anesthesia
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm ET

*Problem-Based Learning Discussion: The Nuts & Bolts of TEVAR
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm ET

*Problem-Based Learning Discussion: How to Start and Conduct a Research Project in an Academic Anesthesia Program
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm ET

Concurrent Sessions
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm ET

  1. Association of University Anesthesiologists Session: Intraoperative Oxygen Administration, Mechanisms, and Outcomes – The Perioperative Sweet Spot?
  2. Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists Session: Panel: Evidence-Based Emergency Airway Management: Past the Tipping Point?
  3. Campfire Session: Medication Errors: Learn from the Experts and Learn from Each Other. Together We Can Solve This Problem
  4. Novel Approaches to Elucidate the Pathophysiology of Perioperative Neurocognitive Disorders

International Science Symposium: Space Medicine
3:00 pm – 4:45 pm ET

Open Poster Viewing
4:45 pm – 5:45 pm ET

*Problem-Based Learning Discussion: Peripartum Cardiomyopathy- Management in Critical Care and Perioperative Setting
4:45 pm – 5:45 pm ET

*Problem-Based Learning Discussion: Anesthetic Considerations in HELLP Syndrome Complicated with Subcapsular Liver Hematoma
4:45 pm – 5:45 pm ET

Concurrent Sessions
5:45 pm – 6:45 pm ET

  1. Dying in Childbirth: Improving Maternal Health and Safety by Advancing Peripartum
  2. The Importance of Cultural Competency in Critical Care
  3. Patient and family centered care to achieve equitable outcomes in pediatric anesthesia. session (Co-Sponsored by the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia)
  4. Climbing the Leadership Ladder: How to Navigate Generational Divide and Build Lasting Teams!
  5. Preventing Chronic Postsurgical Pain and Opioid Use: from Mechanistic Basis under the Biopsychosocial Model to Practical Preoperative Assessment, Phenotyping, and Intervention

*Ticketed Workshop: Clinical Use of Transgastric Abdominal Ultrasound (TGAUS)
4:45 pm – 6:45 pm ET

Sunday, March 20, 2022

Concurrent Sessions
10:00 am – 11:00 am ET

  1. Exploring Clinical Dogma with the “Depth of Anesthesia” podcast team
  2. Campfire Session: The Intersectionality of Underrepresented Minority (URM) Chairwomen in Medicine- Debunking the Myths and Stating the Facts (Co-Sponsored by the American Society of Anesthesiologists Committee on Professional Diversity)
  3. Innovative Session: Point of Care Ultrasound- Sharing Ideas on How to Overcome Implementation Barriers
  4. Current trends and controversies in pediatric anesthesiology (Co-Sponsored by the European Society for Paediatric Anaesthesiology)
  5. What’s New in Airway Management

Break
11:00 am – 11:15 am ET

Kosaka Best Abstracts Award Session
11:15 am – 1:15 pm ET

Break
1:15 pm – 1:30 pm ET

Concurrent Sessions
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm ET

  1. SmartTots Panel: New Directions in Pediatric Anesthetic Neurotoxicity Research
  2. Innovative Session: Leading Multi-site Perioperative Clinical Trials: What I Know Now but Wish I Had Known Then
  3. Ted Talk: Capacity Building versus Short Term Medical Mission Trips
  4. Development, Implementation, and Maintenance of Machine Learning Models in Anesthesiology
  5. Buprenorphine in the Perioperative Period: Recommendations from the Multi-society Working Group

Break & Open Poster Viewing
2:30 pm – 3:30 pm ET

*Problem-Based Learning Discussion: A Sudden Drop in End-Tital CO2 During a Prove Craniotomy
2:30 pm – 3:30 pm ET

*Problem-Based Learning Discussion: Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy- Common Disease, New Guidelines
2:30 pm – 3:30 pm ET

*Problem-Based Learning Discussion: Liver Resection in the Morbidly Obesity Patient with Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis
2:30 pm – 3:30 pm ET

*Problem-Based Learning Discussion: Fine Tuning the Duration of your Regional Anesthetic: How to Provide Reliable Anesthesia and Superior Analgesia in a Fast-moving Surgical Environment
2:30 pm – 3:30 pm ET

Concurrent Sessions
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm ET

  1. RADAR Session
  2. Campfire Session: Transverse Orientation: Reframing Burnout in Terms of Identity
  3. Resuscitation in Sepsis and Septic Shock
  4. Updating the Confusion: Emerging Physiologic Markers of Postoperative Brain Dysfunction Co-Sponsored by the Society for Neuroscience in Anesthesiology and Critical Care and the Society for Advancement of Geriatric Anesthesia)
  5. Moving Past the Single Center Trial: Opportunities and Challenges in Multi-Center Data Collaborations

Open Poster Viewing
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm ET

 

Sessions approved for ABA MOCA 2.0® Patient Safety CME credit.