Date Friday, October 10, 2025 - Tuesday, October 14, 2025 Time 8:00am to 5:00pm Location San Antonio, TX | Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center Description Join us at the ASA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. Our experts will be presenting dozens of sessions this year! Saturday, October 11 Time Title Name 9:45 - 10:45 a.m. SAGA Insights on Pragmatic and Clinician-Focused State-of-the-Art Care of Older Adults (1 CME) Marek Brzezinski 9:45 - 11:15 a.m. Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain II - Paper Posters 91-100 - Abstract Moderator Hemra Cil 9:45 - 11:15 a.m. Impact of pre-operative patient anxiety on Pupil Diameter and Pupillary Unrest in Ambient Light (PUAL) Kunal Ashok Joshi, Matthias Behrends 9:45 - 11:45 a.m. Medically Challenging Cases 9: Obstetric Anesthesia - Monitor 9 Jennifer Woodbury 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Survey to evaluate the performance of bedside procedures under anesthesia care in critically ill patients (NORA-ICU) Ashish Agrawal 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. New Evidence in Anesthetic Management of Cervical Spinal Cord Injury (1 CME) Jonathan Pan 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. Measuring What Matters: Assessing Organizational Influencers of Anesthesiologist Well-Being with the WISH Tool Jina Sinskey 1:15 - 1:25 p.m. When to Pull the Trigger: Diagnosis and Treatment of Secondary Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis in a 10-Year-Old Lisa Young 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. Pain Relief and Safety Outcomes of CSE vs DPE for Labor Epidurals: A Retrospective Study Won Lee 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. Ellison C. Pierce Lecture: Tools for Enhancing Patient Safety (1 PS) Adrian Gelb 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. Pediatric Anesthesia I - Oral Presentations (0 Credit) Marla Ferschl 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. Diagnosis and Management of Epidural Complications (1 CME) Jennifer Woodbury 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. Mentorship Matters: The Power of Pipelines (1 CME) Odmara Barreto Chang 2:00 - 2:30 p.m. Time Well Spent: Implementing the Older Adult Advisory in Real-World Practice (Non-CME) Marek Brzezinski 2:30 - 3:00 p.m. Physician Wellbeing: From the WHY... to the HOW Jina Sinskey 2:45 - 3:45 p.m. Greening Healthcare: A Smart Business Decision (1 CME) Seema Gandhi 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. When Light Hurts: Safely Providing General Anesthesia for a Patient with Congenital Erythropoietic Porphyria Michael Chichioco, Atsuko Baba, Carolina Blotte 3:15 - 4:45 p.m. MCC Paper Posters 6 (#1-20): Cardiac Anesthesia Uma Balasubramaniam 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. Ophthalmologists Perspective on Cataract Surgery Sedation: A National Survey Study Rachel Schwartz, Catherine Chen 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. Pain Classification Model Trained Entirely on Synthetic Data Achieves Excellent Predictive Performance and Calibration When Validated on Human Data Arthur Wallace, Julien Cobert 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. Mastering Acid-Base Disorders: Bedside Analysis and Treatment Strategies Unveiled (1 CME) Ashish Agrawal 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. Indole-3-Propionate, a Gut Microbiota Metabolite, Attenuates LPS-induced Inflammation in Alveolar Macrophages via Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Signaling Tomohiro Chaki, Daisuke Maruyama, Xiaoli Tian, Thien Doan, Arun Prakash Sunday, October 12 Time Title Name 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Difficult Airway Management Including Simulation and Ultrasound I (4 QI, 4 CME) Matthew Dudley 8:00 - 9:00 a.m. Impact of Volatile Anesthetic Consumption on Global Warming Potential: A Multicenter Observational Study from 2018 to 2023 Nick Fong, Priya Ramaswamy, David Chen, Matthieu Legrand, Lee-lynn Chen, Seema Gandhi 9:15 - 10:15 a.m. Geriatric Anesthesia: Exploring the Essential, yet Often Overlooked Aspects Beyond Cognition and Frailty (1 CME) Marek Brzezinski 9:15 - 10:15 a.m. Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain II - Oral Presentations (0 Credit) Kerstin Kolodzie 9:15 - 10:15 a.m. Diagnosis and Management of Epidural Complications (1 CME) Jennifer Woodbury, Emily M. Boyd 9:45 - 10:45 a.m. Improving Anesthesiology Residency Access for Underrepresented Minority Applicants: A Mentorship and Resource Development Initiative Ludwig Lin 9:45 - 11:45 a.m. Medically Challenging Cases 66: Critical Care - Monitor 6 - A Case of Palliative SVC Stenting Complicated by Cardiac Tamponade Nathan Miller, Kaveh Hemati 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. ASA Diagnostic POCUS Certificate Part 2 Workshop: Focused Cardiac Ultrasound Image Acquisition (1.5 QI, 1.5 CME) Mina Khorashadi 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Gliflozins and Outcomes of Veterans Treated for Sepsis Justine Tang, Krystal Karunungan, Anusha Badathala, Arthur Wallace, Matthieu Legrand 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Reframing Epidural Anesthesia Risk Analysis: Use of Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA). Adrian Gelb 12:45 - 2:45 p.m. Medically Challenging Cases 100: Pain Medicine - Monitor 20 - Moderator Hemra Cil 12:45 - 2:45 p.m. Medically Challenging Cases 97: Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain - Monitor 17 - Moderator Hemra Cil 12:45 - 2:45 p.m. Medically Challenging Cases 98: Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain - Monitor 18 - Moderator Hemra Cil 12:45 - 2:45 p.m. Medically Challenging Cases 99: Neuroanesthesia - Monitor 19 - Moderator Hemra Cil 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. Measuring What Matters: Assessing Organizational Influencers of Anesthesiologist Well-Being with the WISH Tool Jina Sinskey 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. Whole Blood Substitutes: Multifunctional Resuscitation Fluids with Oxygen Delivery, Hemostatic, and Platelet Function (1 CME) Vanessa Henke 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. Association of Preoperative Cardiovascular Risk and Postoperative Outcomes with Continuation or Discontinuation of Renin-Angiotensin System Inhibitors Justine Tang, Romain Pirracchio, Matthieu Legrand 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. Evaluating the Feasibility of Virtual Reality for Procedural Sedation in Pediatric Renal Biopsy Patients Omar Salman, Justin Libaw 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. Should All Pediatric Patients With A URI Be Extubated Deep Following Anesthesia? (1 CME) Marla Ferschl 1:30 - 3:00 p.m. MCC Paper Posters 17 (#21-40): Critical Care - Moderator Veronica Segredo 1:30 - 5:30 p.m. Difficult Airway Management Including Simulation and Ultrasound II (4 QI, 4 CME) Matthew Dudley 2:45 - 3:45 p.m. Pupillary Unrest Before Major Elective Surgery Is Not Affected by Chronic Pain or Opioid Use Matthias Behrends, Kunal Joshi, Merlin Larson 2:45 - 3:45 p.m. Role of Nerve Blocks for Gender-Affirming Surgeries: A Retrospective Single-Center Study in the United States Bryan Ramirez, Justin Libaw, Jon Spinner, Arthur Chyan 3:15 - 5:15 p.m. Medically Challenging Cases 119: Neuroanesthesia - Monitor 19 Chanhung Lee 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. Advanced Ultrasound-Guided Regional Anesthesia Workshop (1.5 QI, 1.5 CME) Sakura Kinjo, Matthias Braehler 3:35 - 3:45 p.m. Factors Influencing PACU Length of Stay for ERAS Minimally-Invasive Hysterectomy Patients Lee-lynn Chen 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. The Science and Fiction of Reducing Perioperative Respiratory Adverse Events in Children With a Uri (1 CME) Marla Ferschl 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. Patient Safety and Practice Management IV - ePosters Monitor 24 Kerstin Kolodzie 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. Impact of Volatile Anesthetic Consumption on Global Warming Potential: A Multicenter Observational Study from 2018 to 2023 Nick Fong, Priya Ramaswamy, David Chen, Matthieu Legrand, Lee-lynn Chen, Seema Gandhi Monday, October 13 Time Title Name 9:45 - 11:45 a.m. Medically Challenging Cases 137: Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain - Monitor 17 - Facilitator Ludwig Lin 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. Recruiting and Retaining Our People: The What, Who and How of Well-Being (1 CME) Jina Sinskey 1:30 - 3:00 p.m. Advanced Ultrasound Guided Interfascial Plane Blocks and Paraspinal / Neuraxial Blocks (1.5 QI, 1.5 CME) Matthias Braehler 2:45 - 3:45 p.m. The Power of Partnership: Global Anesthesia Lessons From the Field (1 CME) Michael Lipnick 2:45 - 3:45 p.m. Postoperative Cognitive Decline in Obstructive Sleep Apnea: A Prospective Cohort Study Sakura Kinjo 2:45 - 3:45 p.m. Best General Anesthesia for Geriatric Patients Undergoing Ambulatory Surgery Marek Brzezinski 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. Postpartum Hemorrhage: How to Prepare for It and How to Prevent It (1 CME) Alexander Butwick Tuesday, October 14 Time Title Name 11:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. SEN MOCA Sim – Lessons Learned (1 CME) Lee-lynn Chen Type General Audience All Department
