On the first full day of the meeting, the ASA Daily News talked to a few attendees to learn what they thought the ANESTHESIOLOGY annual meeting does best.

Implementing a perioperative surgical home can be a challenge, but UAB Hospital at the University of Alabama at Birmingham has had success with its efforts, which were reviewed by three team members Saturday during “Challenges in Implementation of the Perioperative Surgical Home.”

Oxygen administration is critical to treating surgical patients with hypoxemia, but should it be used for patients with other conditions, such as cardiac arrest, acute MI or stroke?

Health care is moving toward a system of value-based reimbursement that is changing practice — to the consternation of some medical professionals. However, after many attempts to improve treatments and reduce costs, that push for value is clearly the way to go, according to Saturday’s Opening Session keynote speaker, Michael Porter, a leading professor of business strategy.

ASA’s text-to-donate program makes supporting your foundations as easy as 5-0-1-5-5.

One of today’s most respected and accomplished patient safety advocates will honor one of the founding fathers of the patient safety movement during the ASA/APSF Ellison C. Pierce, Jr., Patient Safety Memorial Lecture Saturday morning.

MACRA is coming. The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act finally discards 17 years of Sustainable Growth Rate gyrations for Medicare reimbursement. MACRA is an improvement over SGR, but it has its own challenges surrounding data reporting and physician quality improvement.

Every anesthesiologist has heard that bad things happen to good people. It’s a hackneyed phrase, but also a very accurate prediction. No anesthesiologist can prevent misadventures such as a hidden medical problem. But every anesthesiologist can, and must, control the outcome of those misadventures.

Physician executive has a nice ring to it. Anesthesiologist executive sounds even better. And increasingly, anesthesiologists are recognizing the C-suite as an appropriate and attainable goal.

Neuropathic pain can be difficult and expensive to manage, but new guidelines and strategies based on evidence-based decision-making are leading to improved outcomes. Those new approaches are explained in a Self-Study course available for CME during the ANESTHESIOLOGY 2016 annual meeting.