Scientific Program

*** Schedule Subject to Change ***

• Program at a Glance
• Program 6-8 February 2026

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Pre-congress Workshop on 5^th February 2026 

 

 

Potential Scientific Program for AACA 2026
Theme: The State of the Art and Future Trends in Anesthesia

Thematic session

• Artificial intelligence (AI) and Machine learning
  • In perioperative care
    • Preoperative period
    • Machine learning and pattern recognition/prediction model
  • In anesthesia monitoring
    • AI and Machine learning in hemodynamics
    • Predictive analytics in hemodynamic management
    • Machine learning and echocardiography
    • Machine Learning for EEG Signal Processing
  • Personalized anesthesia
• Future trend in anesthesia
  • Decision support systems 
    • In perioperative period
    • In hemodynamic management
  • The automation of perioperative hemodynamic management
  • Monitoring with wireless and wearable sensors
  • Microcirculation in anesthesia

CVT anesthesia

• Adult CVT
  • Catheter guided procedure
  • Hemostasis and transfusion
  • Heart-lung transplantation
  • Mechanical circulatory support 
    • LVAD
    • ECMO
• Pediatric CVT
  • Adult congenital heart disease
  • Update in hypoplastic left heart syndrome
  • Neurodevelopment after cardiovascular surgery

Pediatric anesthesia:

• Avoiding anesthesia induced-neurotoxicity in difference levels of resources
• Difficult airway in pediatric anesthesia
• Update in Neonatal anesthesia
• NPO guideline
• Fluid management
• Hemodynamic monitoring
• Regional anesthesia

Neuroanesthesia

• Anesthesia and brain health
• EEG and neuromonitoring
• Traumatic brain injury
• Neurointervention
• Workshop in neuroanesthesia
• EEG, neuromonitoring, simulation crisis management 

Obstetric Anesthesia

• Neuraxial labor analgesia
  • Dural puncture epidural
  • Autism spectrum 
  • Epidural fever
  • Pro & Con: NPO vs Fed in labor
• Pain in Cesarean delivery (CD)
  • Personalized analgesia: How to stratify patient with severe acute pain after CD
  • Predictors of failed spinal anesthesia and how to prevent
  • Buprenorphine in Ob analgesia
  • Spinal adjuvant in CD: Dexmedetomidine, Clonidine
• PDPH
  • Beyond the guideline: how to improve patient outcome
• Morbidity in pregnancy
  • PPH
    • Tranexamic acid to prevent obstetrical hemorrhage
    • Cutting edge research in uterine atony
  • Cardiovascular
  • Maternal sepsis

 

Critical Care Medicine

• Hemodynamics
  • POCUS Spotlight: Perioperative Hemodynamic Assessment in Noncardiac Surgery
  • Personalized hemodynamic management
    • Perioperative BP management
    • Update in perioperative hemodynamic monitoring
    • Role of AI and machine learning in hemodynamic management
    • Future in critical care technology
  • Perioperative myocardial injury and infarction
  • Perioperative fluid management
  • Update in vasoactive drug
  • Perioperative shock management
  • Pulmonary HT: an update and management
• Airway and Respiratory System
  • Update in Respiratory monitoring during surgery
  • ARDS
  • Perioperative mechanical ventilation
  • Airway management in ICU

Acute Pain Management

• The role of anesthesiologists in multimodal pain management 
• The opioid sparing techniques in pain management 
• Acute pain management in Era of ERAS 
• Non-opioid pharmacotherapy for acute pain: what’s new? 
• Perioperative pain management in outpatient surgery 
• Innovation in postoperative pain monitoring and management 
• Which adjuvant to best improve analgesia?

Chronic Pain Management

• Chronic pain management in special populations (pediatric, geriatric, pregnant, addicted, vulnerable patients) 
• Chronic post-surgical pain
  • Chronic neuropathic pain after surgery
  • CPSP in children
  • Prevention and treatment 
• Pain in trauma patients
  • CRPS
  • Phantom pain
  • post-surgical pain syndrome 
• Emerging therapies in pain medicine (novel agents, regenerative medicine approaches, latest research, future directions) 
• Pain management in context of long COVID 
• AI in pain management

Live demonstration

• 3D-Echocardiography
• ECMO and troubleshooting
• RA in thoracic surgery 
• Advanced Hemodynamic Management for High Risk Non-Cardiac Surgery 
• Respiratory monitoring
• Ultrasound Scanning: Lumbar region

PBLD

• TEE for Intraoperative Decision Making
• Advanced Hemodynamic Management for High Risk Non-Cardiac Surgery
• Trouble shooting with anesthesia machine