Maui Anesthesia Seminar

February 27 – March 6, 2027 at the Hyatt Regency Maui Resort & Spa

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

• Discuss what elements make neuraxial techniques more difficult, and examine labor analgesic options if neuraxial techniques cannot be placed.
• Differentiate pharmacologic, interventional, physical, psychological, and self-management approaches to acute and chronic pain.
• List the indications and limitations of gastric ultrasound in pre-operative assessment.
• Discuss the pharmacology of anticoagulants, vasoactive agents, inotropes, and anesthetic drugs commonly encountered in patients supported with mechanical circulatory support.
• Discuss the changes that you could make to improve your practice as a result of attending the panel discussion.
• Review recent advances in critical care medicine and assess their implications for perioperative and intensive care practice in anesthesiology.
• Identify how lung ultrasound can be used to narrow the differential diagnosis of respiratory dysfunction, including in the emergency and/or trauma setting.
• Describe how the brain, brainstem, spinal cord, cognition, emotion, expectations, and context shape pain.
• Discuss the ethical principles that guide end-of-life decision-making and their application to anesthesiology and perioperative care.
• List the changes that you will make to your practice as a result of the suggestions presented in the panel discussion.
• Apply evidence-based principles for evaluation, risk stratification, drug and doseage selection, and avoidance of low-value care for back pain.
• Identify the requirements for billing for diagnostic POCUS through CPT codes.
• List the recommended drugs and their doses to manage both hypertension and hypotension in pregnancy.
• Discuss the role of self-regulatory skills to reduce pain from medical conditions and after surgery.
• List the ideas discussed in the panel that will improve your clinical performance.
• List which anesthetic-relevant pathologies can be identified using focused cardiac ultrasound in the pre-operative setting.
• Review the pharmacology of pulmonary vasodilators, inotropes, vasopressors, and anesthetic agents used in the management of right heart failure and pulmonary hypertension.
• Identify patient, surgical, psychological, and perioperative factors associated with persistent postsurgical pain and prolonged opioid use.
• Describe the key principles of effective communication during perioperative and critical care crises and their impact on patient safety and team performance.
• Discuss the changes that you could make to improve your practice as a result of attending the panel discussion.