Postoperative delirium affects a wide range of the general surgical population and has been associated with increases in length of hospital stay, likelihood of being discharged to a rehabilitation center or nursing facility rather than home, mortality and higher cost of care.

Perioperative anesthetic management can have profound effects on patient outcomes for those who are either at risk for stroke during noncardiac surgery or who have had acute ischemic stroke (AIS) and are having endovascular thrombectomy (EVT).

Leading institutions have made the shift to perioperative medicine and are sharing the lessons they have learned along the way.

Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) and Perioperative Surgical Home (PSH) models offer important advantages in patient outcomes, satisfaction, length of stay, cost and other measures in both adult and pediatric populations.

On-call anesthesiologists must know the types of general and acute cardiovascular aortic emergencies they are likely to encounter and how to optimize perioperative management to improve outcomes.

Health care is a top contributor to pollution in the world – and unfortunately, anesthesiology is a contributor as well.

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Opening Session speaker Joh Linkner discusses the role physician anesthesiologists can play in disrupting the health care environment.

A shortage of injectable opioids and local anesthetics is one of the most urgent challenges facing ASA members today.

ASA and AARP have joined forces to improve the brain health of older patients undergoing surgery. The two hosted the Perioperative Brain Health Initiative Summit: Innovations to Promote Brain Health Before, During and After Surgery in June to discuss the science and prevention of perioperative neurocognitive disorders (PND).