2025 Perioperative Care Congress (PCC)

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

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 !

2025 Perioperative Care Congress Sponsor

Program Details

Planning Committee

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

Scientific Planning Committee

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