Aspen Anesthesia Seminar

January 30 – February 6, 2027 at the Viceroy Snowmass Resort 

Lecture Schedule
 

*Please note that the lecture topics and/or schedule may change if necessary.

Holiday Seminars accepts no commercial support of any kind and ensures that all presentations are free from commercial bias.  None of the planners for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies.  All of the relevant financial relationships disclosed by the speakers have been mitigated to ensure that the presentations are free from any bias from commercial interests.

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

• Define ‘rebound pain’ after regional analgesia, and compare currently available options for extending nerve blockade.
• Recognize clinical scenarios requiring rescue echocardiography, and rapidly acquire and interpret focused echocardiographic images to guide diagnosis and immediate management.
• Discuss the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of GLP-1 medications, including end organ effects outside of weight reduction and management of visceral fat.
• Apply hemodynamic principles to rational vasoactive drug selection.
• Discuss the changes that you could make to improve your practice as a result of attending the panel discussion.
• Describe practical strategies to safely manage patients with aortic stenosis undergoing noncardiac surgery.
• Review the pharmacology of opioids and nonopioid modalities in perioperative pain management, and identify opportunities to implement multimodal strategies across the continuum of pain care.
• Review the pharmacology of medications for opioid use disorder and how to manage them perioperatively.
• Apply the recommended practical strategies for safe perioperative management of patients with ventricular assist devices undergoing noncardiac surgery.
• List the changes that you will make to your practice as a result of the suggestions presented in the Panel Discussion.
• Discuss tips and tricks to improve ultrasound images and ultrasound-guided regional block techniques for truncal blocks.
• Define the optimal ultrasound transducer position for imaging the brachial plexus at various points.
• Implement evidence-based intraoperative and postoperative strategies to mitigate postoperative AKI risk including pharmacologic strategies with a particular focus on anti-hypertensive medication management.
• Discuss the conundrums in OB practice that are present in Labor Analgesic care today.
• List the ideas discussed in the panel that will improve your clinical performance.
• Analyze the relationship between several CPET results and postoperative morbidity and mortality across surgical populations.
• Explain how MPOG data can enable clinicians to provide better patient care, and enable our specialty to learn how care is actually provided.
• Describe how to do a personalized risk assessment for the top 7 threats to mortality and the top 5 threats to vitality for U.S. adults.
• List the recommended drugs and their doses to manage both hypertension and hypotension in pregnancy.
• Discuss the changes that you could make to improve your practice as a result of attending the panel discussion.
• Indicate preoperative issues that commonly arise in anesthetic care, and how best to manage them.
• Apply validated preoperative risk-assessment tools to stratify patients at risk for perioperative complications related to OSA.