Harvard Anesthesiology Update 2025

Patient Safety, Technology & AI

• APSF priorities: current focus and future directions
• Urgent and upcoming threats to patient safety
• Technology, artificial intelligence, and criminalization of medical error
• Medication safety in anesthesia practice
• Research fraud and impact on anesthesia practitioners
• Rethinking the anesthesiology workforce and patient care
• Ethical issues in the application of AI in anesthesia practice
• Machine learning, preoperative risk prediction, and intraoperative AI tools

Airway, Regional Anesthesia & Pain Management

• Management of the impossible airway
• Scanning the airway horizon and defining landmarks
• Airway challenges in the pediatric patient
• Brachial plexus blocks below the clavicle
• Head and neck blocks for awake craniotomy
• Ultrasound-guided neuraxial blocks
• Management of rebound pain after peripheral nerve block
• Perioperative methadone and opioid-sparing strategies
• Multimodal anesthesia: getting it right

Cardiac, Hemodynamics & Critical Care

• Management of massive hemorrhage in the operating room
• Point-of-care coagulation testing
• Myocardial injury after noncardiac surgery
• Aortic stenosis management for non-cardiac cases
• Point-of-care cardiac ultrasound
• Point-of-care lung ultrasound
• Right heart risk: when to suspect and what to do
• Hemodynamic monitoring in critically ill patients
• Fluid balance and perioperative management

Obstetric, Pediatric & Special Population Anesthesia

• Maternal infections
• Maternal morbidity and mortality from an anesthesia perspective
• Technology for postpartum hemorrhage management
• Optimal neuraxial labor analgesia
• Pediatric advanced life support updates
• Patient safety in pediatric day surgery
• Preparing children for anesthesia
• Geriatric assessment and evidence-based care
• Perioperative management of patients with diabetes

Neuroanesthesia, Brain Health & ICU Care

• Brain health and perioperative neurocognitive disorders
• Emergence from general anesthesia and EEG insights
• From brain to consciousness: lessons from coma
• Neurophysiological markers of connectedness and disconnectedness
• Brain death and organ donation
• Biomarkers in sepsis and ARDS
• Nutrition in the ICU
• Palliative care in the ICU

Thoracic, Office-Based, NORA & Emerging Topics

• Non-operating room anesthesia and remote location safety
• Day surgery and ambulatory anesthesia updates
• Thoracic and cardiothoracic analgesia strategies
• Trauma management recent advances
• Burn care management updates
• Space medicine and anesthesia practice
• End-of-life communication and comfort symptom management
• History and future directions of anesthesia practice

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The package includes 90 recorded videos and 55 PDF resources, with a total size of 109 GB.

The course covers cardiac anesthesia, regional anesthesia, critical care, ambulatory and office-based anesthesia, pediatric anesthesia, obstetric anesthesia, thoracic anesthesia, transfusion medicine, neuroanesthesia, pain management, patient safety, POCUS, airway management, AI, and ERAS.

No. This course package does not include CME points or a certificate.

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