As you arrive in San Francisco for ANESTHESIOLOGY 2018, be sure to check out our first-ever Virtual Event Bag.

Question of the Day: What are you most looking forward to during ANESTHESIOLOGY 2018?

Robert A. Caplan, M.D., will lead this year’s honorary ASA/APSF Ellison C. (Jeep) Pierce, Jr., Patient Safety Memorial Lecture “Sharpening the Vision to Do No Harm.”

Reintubation is required relatively infrequently for most adult patients. However, certain surgical procedures and medical conditions can significantly increase the probability of reintubation.

The success of airway management has as much to do with our willingness to turn scientific advances into medical practice as it does on medical research and development.

Patients 65 and older undergoing surgery are at increased risk for developing perioperative neurocognitive disorders, including postoperative delirium (POD), with detrimental effects on their recovery.

Suicide among anesthesiologists is a major issue in this country. Male anesthesiologists are at high risk of death by suicide, potentially higher than any other physician cohort.

ASA will unveil Snap Talks, a new lecture format that provides a quick look at the most important elements of five different topics.

Given the unique nature of anesthesiology as a specialty, anesthesiologists are well-positioned to make contributions as physician-executives in health care systems, private industry and public service.

Entrepreneurial anesthesiologists will have the opportunity to pitch their best innovative, medical device and drug product ideas during “Swimming with Sharks: How Anesthesiologist Inventors Can Move Their Ideas Forward.”