2025 Perioperative Care Congress (PCC)

David Braley Health Sciences Centre
100 Main St W, Hamilton, ON
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Perioperative Care Congress

  • November 7-9, 2025

  • 100 Main St W,
    Hamilton, ON,
    L8P 1H6, Canada

Choose Your Ticket Type

Attend In-Person

Conference will be held in the Auditorium of the David Braley Health Sciences Centre

Attend Virtually

If you select to attend virtually: PLEASE NOTE THAT A ZOOM REGISTRATION LINK FOR EACH DAY OF THE PCC WILL BE SENT ON THE WEEK OF THE CONFERENCE.

You will receive this link via email from: Michael Litresits – michael@moonsunmusik.com

PLEASE DISREGARD THE STREAMING LINK RECEIVED FROM POINT OF SALE

Attend Pre-Course

The Pre-Course Research workshop will be held in the David Braley Health Sciences Centre on Friday November 7, 2025.

The Research Worshop is hosted in collaboration between the Society for Perioperative Research and Care and the Perioperative Care Research Network.

** Abstract and awards submission deadline extended until September 18th, 2025 **

Learning Objectives for this program include:

  • Describe perioperative bleeding: TRACTION, POISE 2 and 3, and PRICE trials, perioperative tranexamic and aspirin use in non-cardiac surgery, and a debate liver resection surgery and tranexamic acid use.
  • Review of cardiac surgery and IV amino acids for renal protection, perioperative complications and 30-day and 1-year mortality, benzodiazepine use in cardiac anesthesia, management of post cardiac surgery atrial fibrillation, and a chain reaction panel discussion on perioperative individual RCTs vs cluster crossover trials.
  • Recognize perioperative neurocognitive outcomes: PRECISION and Co-TELE-SURGE trials, and relationship between PFO and ischemic stroke and a campfire session on who and how to screen for covert stroke.
  • Describe and review perioperative monitoring: PVC-RAM-3 and OPTIMIZE II trials, troponin and hip fracture, PoC assessment for post-induction
    hypotension and continuous wireless vital sign monitoring vs standard intermittent monitoring.
  • Review and discuss perioperative drug management: renin-angiotensin inhibitors (RAIs), GLP-1 inhibitors, management of postoperative myocardial injury and a fireside chat on management of chronic ARIs at the time of surgery.
  • Discuss, review, and describe prehabilitation and postoperative pain: PREVENT MINS trial, prehabilitation interventions, incidence and risks for postoperative pain and patient characteristics and 30-day readmission after non-cardiac surgery.

We are looking forward to seeing you all in Hamilton !

Program Details

Planning Committee

  • Flavia Kessler Borges (McMaster, GIM)
  • PJ Devereaux (McMaster, Cardiology)
  • Emmanuelle Duceppe (University of Montreal, GIM)
  • Ameen Patel (McMaster, GIM)

Scientific Committee

  • Emilie Belley-Côté
  • Flavia Kessler Borges
  • PJ Devereaux
  • Gabriel Dion
  • Laura Drudi
  • Emmanuelle Duceppe
  • Raja Jayaram
  • James Khan
  • Manoj Lalu
  • Su-Yin MacDonell
  • Maura Marcucci
  • Micheal McGillion
  • Erin Morley
  • Carley Ouellette
  • Lily Park
  • Ameen Patel
  • Daniel I Sessler
  • Deborah Siegal
  • Alben Sigamani
  • Wojciech Szczeklik
  • Vikas Tandon
  • Kari Tikkinen
  • David Torres