Maui Anesthesia Seminar
February 28 – March 7, 2026 at the Hyatt Regency Maui Resort & Spa
2025 Schedule Below, 2026 Coming Soon!
Lecture Schedule
| Saturday, February 22 | Optional Travel Day | |
| Sunday, February 23 | ||
| 5:30 PM–6:30 PM | Welcome Reception for Attendee and Spouse/Guest | |
| Monday, February 24 | ||
| 7:30 AM | Dr. Slinger | Intra-Operative Management of the Patient with Severe Lung Disease |
| 8:30 AM | Dr. Rosenblatt | The 2022 ASA Airway Guidelines |
| 9:45 AM | Dr. Tsen | Reducing General Anesthesia for Cesarean Delivery: 10 Practical Tested Tips |
| 10:45 AM | Dr. Zimmerman | Focused Cardiac Ultrasound – for Everyone or for Anyone? |
| 11:45 AM | Dr. Rosenblatt | Problematic Airway and Advanced Airway Assessment |
| Tuesday, February 25 | ||
| 7:30 AM | Dr. Rosenblatt | The 2023 PUMA Guidelines for Prevention of Unrecognized Esophageal Intubation |
| 8:30 AM | Dr. Tsen | Pulmonary Embolism in Pregnancy: A Practical Primer |
| 9:45 AM | Dr. Zimmerman | Principles and Application of Perioperative Lung Ultrasound |
| 10:45 AM | Dr. Slinger | Update on Lung Isolation and One-Lung Ventilation |
| 11:45 AM | Panel Discussion | Drs. Tsen, Rosenblatt, Slinger, and Zimmerman |
| Wednesday, February 26 | No Lectures / Day Off... A Day to Enjoy Maui! | |
| Thursday, February 27 | ||
| 7:30 AM | Dr. Zimmerman | Abdominal Ultrasound – Gastric and FAST, I Promise It's for You! |
| 8:30 AM | Dr. Slinger | Management of Patients with Anterior Mediastinal Masses and Other Lower Airway Problems |
| 9:45 AM | Dr. Rosenblatt | Awake Intubation Made Easy and the Flexible Intubation Scope |
| 10:45 AM | Dr. Tsen | Difficult Conversations and How to Handle Them The Dr. Bill Smith Lecture Series Presentation |
| 11:45 AM | Panel Discussion | Drs. Tsen, Rosenblatt, Slinger, and Zimmerman |
| Friday, February 28 | ||
| 7:30 AM | Dr. Tsen | Pharmacologic Advances in the Management of PostPartum Hemorrhage |
| 8:30 AM | Dr. Slinger | Advances in the Peri-Operative Care of Thoracic Patients for Which We (Anesthesia) Don't Get No (Much) Credit |
| 9:45 AM | Dr. Rosenblatt | Emergency Invasive Airway and Extubation of the Difficult Airway |
| 10:45 AM | Dr. Zimmerman | Rescue TEE for Non-Cardiac Anesthesia |
| 11:45 AM | Panel Discussion | Drs. Tsen, Rosenblatt, Slinger, and Zimmerman |
| Saturday, March 1 | 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
- Discuss the intraoperative use of pulmonary vasodilators for patients with pulmonary hypertension.
- Describe the new ASA airway infographic.
- Evaluate methods prior to, and during, labor analgesia that can reduce the incidence of general anesthesia use.
- Describe the value of surface cardiac ultrasound for preoperative assessment.
- Evaluate a variety of difficult airway patients.
- Diagnose the absence of a capnography curve.
- Evaluate diagnostic prediction guidelines, testing, and drug therapies for pulmonary embolism.
- Identify indications for perioperative lung ultrasound, and recognize the ultrasound findings of pneumothorax.
- Identify recent advances in the available options for lung isolation in thoracic surgery.
- Discuss the changes that you could make to improve your practice as a result of attending the panel discussion.
- Describe the value of gastric ultrasound in the assessment of patients taking GLP-1 agonists.
- Develop a plan for perioperative management of a patient with an anterior mediastinal mass.
- Discuss how to use topical anesthetic blocks for awake intubation.
- Identify the strategies discussed that can aid in difficult conversations.
- List the changes that you will make to your practice as a result of the suggestions presented in the panel discussion.
- Explain the benefits, risks, and issues associated with various treatment components and protocols in the major hemorrhage situation.
- Explain the effects of volatile anesthetics on hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction.
- Outline how to develop a plan for the difficult to extubate patient.
- Discuss the value of TEE in the assessment of unstable patients.
- List the ideas discussed in the panel that will improve your clinical performance.