Aspen Anesthesia Seminar
January 31 – February 7, 2026 at the Viceroy Snowmass Resort
Lecture Schedule
| Saturday, January 31 | Optional Travel Day | |
| Sunday, February 1 | ||
| 4:30-6:00 PM | Welcome Reception for Attendee and Spouse/Guest | |
| Monday, February 2 | ||
| 7:00 AM | Dr. Kharasch | GLP-1 Agonists: Sorting Through Evidence, Guidance, and Recommendations |
| 8:00 AM | Dr. Bronshteyn | Abdominal Ultrasound for the Anesthesia Provider: Gastric, FAST Exam, and Beyond! |
| 4:30 PM | Dr. Flexman | Update on Postoperative Delirium |
| 5:30 PM | Dr. Tsen | Anesthesia for Cesarean Delivery: Updates |
| 6:30 PM | Panel Discussion | Drs. Tsen, Bronshteyn, Flexman, and Kharasch |
| Tuesday, February 3 | ||
| 7:00 AM | Dr. Flexman | Clinical Monitoring for Perioperative Stroke: Updates and Controversies |
| 8:00 AM | Dr. Tsen | Non-Operating Room Anesthesia (NORA): Considerations and Complications |
| 4:30 PM | Dr. Bronshteyn | Lung Ultrasound in the Perioperative Period: How Can It Help Me? |
| 5:30 PM | Dr. Flexman | The Aging Surgical Population: Optimizing Value and Outcomes |
| 6:30 PM | Panel Discussion | Drs. Tsen, Bronshteyn, and Flexman |
| Wednesday, February 4 | ||
| 7:00 AM | Dr. Bronshteyn | POCUS Logistics and Educating Your Group: Training, Credentialing/Privileging, and Billing |
| 8:00 AM | Dr. Kharasch | Perioperative Methadone in Adults and Children: Application and Benefit |
| 4:30 PM | Dr. Flexman | Enhanced Recovery and Value Based Care for Spine Surgery: Update on Current Evidence |
| 5:30 PM | Dr. Bronshteyn | Cardiac Ultrasound for the Non-Cardiac Anesthesia Provider: Pre-Op Assessment and Crisis Management |
| 6:30 PM | Panel Discussion | Drs. Tsen, Bronshteyn, Flexman, and Kharasch |
| Thursday, February 5 | ||
| 7:00 AM | Dr. Tsen | After the Wet Tap: Spinal Catheters and Post-Dural Puncture Headache |
| 8:00 AM | Dr. Kharasch | Perioperative Gabapentinoids: Slow, Stop, or Reverse? |
| 4:30 PM | Dr. Kharasch | Can You Believe It? How to Critically Read the Medical Literature The Dr. Bill Smith Lecture Series Presentation |
| 5:30 PM | Dr. Bronshteyn | POCUS Off the Beaten Path: DVT, Diaphragm, and Beyond |
| 6:30 PM | Panel Discussion | Drs. Tsen, Bronshteyn, and Kharasch |
| Friday, February 6 | ||
| 7:00 AM | Dr. Kharasch | Patients Post-PACU: Out of Sight, Out of Mind? |
| 8:00 AM | Dr. Flexman | Top Articles in Neuroanesthesia |
| Saturday, February 7 | Optional Travel Day | |
*Please note that the lecture topics and/or schedule may change if necessary.
Holiday Seminars does not accept any funds from commercial interests and no one involved in the planning or choice of presentations has any commercial interests. All members of the faculty are evaluated in advance and in the opinion of Holiday Seminars have no commercial ties 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
• Understand perioperative risks, concerns, and pharmacologic indications for patients taking GLP-1 receptor agonists.
• Identify how the FAST exam can be used in perioperative care, including in the emergency and/or trauma setting.
• Discuss the evidence for pharmacological treatment of postoperative delirium.
• Examine the optimal anesthetic cocktails for intraoperative and postoperative success with Cesarean delivery.
• Discuss the changes that you could make to improve your practice as a result of attending the panel discussion.
• Describe the challenges related to timely detection of perioperative stroke in high risk patients.
• Indicate whether single or mixed agent management is preferable for NORA cases.
• Identify how lung ultrasound can be used to narrow the differential diagnosis of respiratory dysfunction, including in the emergency and/or trauma setting.
• Define unique challenges and evidence-based approaches to providing high-value surgical care to elderly patients.
• List the changes that you will make to your practice as a result of the suggestions presented in the Panel Discussion.
• Identify the requirements for billing for diagnostic POCUS through CPT codes.
• Understand the pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and clinical effects of methadone.
• Discuss the components of enhanced recovery protocols for neurosurgical procedures.
• List which anesthetic-relevant pathologies can be identified using focused cardiac ultrasound in the pre-operative setting.
• List the ideas discussed in the panel that will improve your clinical performance.
• Discuss how certain pharmacologic agents may diminish PDPH symptoms.
• Understand the mechanism, side effects, and approved pharmacologic indications for gabapentinoids.
• Understand how to systematically approach a published medical article, and identify reliable and unreliable sources of information.
• Identify how focused compression ultrasound of proximal lower extremity veins could be used to facilitate perioperative decision-making.
• Discuss the changes that you could make to improve your practice as a result of attending the panel discussion.
• Understand the causes and prevention of chronic postoperative pain.
• Review the findings of recent high impact publications related to perioperative neuroscience.