CAS CVT Section

Introducing the 2024-2026 Executive Members! They are your link to the largest and one of the oldest @CASUpdate sections @DtranDiem @JMorenoGarijo @cmachdesouza @yannisdr @pperezde Looking forward academic & education collaborations with all members

Join us for the upcoming session of the @resusteeproject Webinar Series This time on the applications of #ResusTEE and Focused TEE in non-cardiac anesthesiology Register at resuscitativetee.com/webinars #GrabTheProbe #SoundsThatSaveLives

Opening Keynote Announcement 📣 Dr. Balachundhar Subramaniam will deliver the Opening Keynote at #CASAM2026 in Ottawa. “Access the Pause: The Cognitive Edge in Modern Anesthesiology” June 6, 8 am ET In person and virtual Learn more - cas.ca/annual-meeting

Join us for the 19th Annual Weber Lecture The lecture is held in honour of Dr. K Weber, who was Chief of Anesthesia at @Sunnybrook from 1972 to 1990. He led the dept through many changes. He was an inspirational leader widely known for his support, humour, and encouragement

We have officially launched North America’s first Burn Anesthesia Fellowship @Sunnybrook. This is a unique collaboration between @UofTanesthesia and @UofTPRS to train the next generation of Burn Anesthesia providers. academic.oup.com/jbcr/advance-a…

Echo Anatomy: Aortic Valve – heart dissection session at #SCAEcho2026. Outstanding presentation by @MaxMeineri, Muath Bishawi, Alina Nicoara, and Kimberly Howard-Quijano. Superb integration of surgery, cardiac anesthesia, and anatomy — exactly how perioperative echo should be taught.

We’re pleased to welcome Dr Pablo Perez d'Empaire, as our next Gas Exchange speaker, who will be focusing on the role of resuscitative perioperative TEE. @CASUpdate @ON_Anesthesia @OttAnesthesia @Sunnybrook @uOttawa

Great work lead by @lgiron86 @ON_Anesthesia @UofTanesthesia @CASUpdate @ASALifeline

🚨 Registration is open for the 2026 CAS Annual Meeting! 📅 June 5–7 | Ottawa, ON Connect with colleagues, explore cutting-edge research, and enjoy networking & workshops. Early bird ends Apr 15 – CAS members save 50%! 🔗 cas.ca/annual-meeting

CAS Pinnacle Rounds continues in 2026 with member-exclusive teaching rounds from Canadian universities. Join us for "Unseen Vectors and the Sterile Truth: Rethinking Infection Control for the Anesthesiologist" on Feb 4 at 8 pm ET. Register & learn more: cas.ca/pinnacle-rounds

2026 registration is now open! Please note that we have had a change of date for our Sydney course. Because each course is limited to 20 participants, we recommend that you register early to reserve your spot. Spread the word to your colleagues, friends, and trainees!

Ft. Ontario anesthesiologist Dr. Ahtsham Niazi & his talk “Strategies to Reduce Opioid Use in the Perioperative Period”

On January 31 at 10am (EST), the @CASUpdate and @ESRA_Society will host the 3rd Annual World Regional Anesthesia Day webinar, including Dr. Ahtsham Niazi discussing “Strategies to Reduce Opioid Use in the Perioperative Period.” Register Now: cas.ca/en/education-a…

Congratulations to @absrbnt_sponge, @JMorenoGarijo and @pperezde on the publication of your new case report!

Our recent case report on the role of #ResusTEE for intraoperative cardiac arrest is out Take a look at how “An Image Worth a Thousand Words” journals.lww.com/aoca/fulltext/… #GrabTheProbe #SoundsThatSaveLives

Join us in Toronto on September 26–27, 2026 for the ISURA POCUS Course 🇨🇦 REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN 🔍 Cardiac, lung, diaphragm, gastric, airway ultrasound & more 🌍 International and local expert faculty Register at: usra.ca/meetings/periw… #ISURA #POCUS #Anesthesia

Sharing my research (and teachings) on X has been one of the greatest contributors to my early career successes. I've met countless collaborators, made life long friends, given lectures/rounds on 3 continents, and constantly get new ideas for research studies. Here's my tips to posting on X 👇 (p.s. this is my research keyword cloud, you can make in 1 min to share below)

The smartest doctors are rarely the ones who make the greatest impact in medicine. Impact is less about intelligence in 2026 and beyond. It’s about agency. Intelligence is the ability to understand, analyze, and process information. It’s pattern recognition. Memory. Reasoning. Cognitive horsepower. Medicine selects heavily for this. But intelligence alone is no longer scarce - particularly as AI has begun to meet and exceed human intelligence for many tasks. Agency is different. Agency is the ability to: -Observe the world as it is -Recognize that it is not immutable -Act to change it -Execute despite uncertainty, friction, or incomplete knowledge Agency = curiosity + creativity + execution. In the pre-AI era, expertise was largely about how: -How to run statistics -How to code analyses -How to format manuscripts -How to search literature That made intelligence and technical mastery the bottleneck. That world is gone. Today, AI can: -Run statistical models -Write clean, reproducible code -Perform literature searches -Draft and revise text -Execute technical steps accurately and repeatedly I say this as someone who did a Master’s in epidemiology and learned to write Python for stats. The syntax mattered then. Today, I can write the scripts in minutes using Claude Code. If the "how" is becoming automated, what's left to automate? The "what" and the "why". @johnrushx talks about this. - What to study. - Why it matters. - When to act. - And whether you actually do anything at all. That’s agency. Medicine doesn’t suffer from a lack of smart people. It suffers from a lack of people who: -Start projects -Ship imperfect versions -Build things outside formal pathways -Take responsibility for changing broken systems 95% of people never take the first step. Not because they aren’t smart — but because agency is uncomfortable. For the next generation of physicians: - Stop trying to maximize how much you know. - Start maximizing how much you can do. Learn to: - Turn ideas into action (even bad first drafts) - Execute without permission - Build, test, iterate Use intelligence as a tool, not an identity. In 2025 and beyond, agency will define who shapes medicine

The Gas Exchange will be back in 2026 with an incredible lineup of speakers,innovators & thinkers reshaping the way we understand anaesthesia & perioperative care.We’re thrilled to introduce Dr Jon Bailey, Associate Professor, Dalhousie University @CASUpdate @ON_Anesthesia

👏Congratulations to @pperezde on this #POCUS-focused issue, which also features contributions from several other Ontario anesthesiologists, including @lgiron86 @DeepaKattail @JMorenoGarijo @WRajaleelan 👏

This issue fully dedicated to perioperative #POCUS is now out The content includes different perioperative POCUS applications such as Cardiac, Lungs, Gastric, Airway, Peds, ResusTEE, OB, VExUS, POCUS implementation and POCUS in LMIC sciencedirect.com/journal/best-p…