Education Committee Update: IARS/SOCCA Annual Meeting Critical Care Track

The 2025 IARS/SOCCA Annual Meeting is rapidly approaching, and we are excited about the three days of a specific critical care track of educational content. We hope that you are able to join us at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach Resort in Honolulu, Hawaii from March 21-23.

The Annual Meeting opens on Friday with a panel discussing palliative and end of life care in the ICU. Moderator, Dr. Rebecca Aslakson, leads a panel discussing “DIY” palliative care by intensivists, triggers to consult palliative care specialists, and financial toxicity for patients and families in the ICU with panelists Dr. Rachel Hadler, Dr. Nita Khandelwal, and Dr. Allison Dalton. Next, Dr. Craig Jabaley moderates a panel on sustainable practice models in critical care. Speakers Dr. Albert Yen, Dr. Anahat Dhillon, and Dr. Todd Sarge discuss the evidence behind shiftwork, burnout, personal sustainability, and enabling satisfying careers. The final session on Friday presents the data behind sedation and analgesia in the ICU, a session moderated by Dr. Christina Boncyk. Dr. Alisha Sachdev will discuss historical and current sedation options available to intensivists. Dr. Jason Brainard will discuss the need for sedation while Dr. Brian O’Gara will investigate the potential utilization of inhaled sedation in the ICU.

Friday evening concludes with our SOCCA Social at 6:30pm HST at at the Barefoot Bar, located at the Hale Koa Hotel. This is event is open to all SOCCA members and is co-hosted by Women in Critical Care (WICC) and the SOCCA Early Career Intensivists.

Saturday’s programming opens with a panel on biventricular mechanical support. Dr. Tao Shen, Dr. Krisztina Escallier, and Dr. Christina Creel-Bulos present on monitoring, optimization, and exit planning for BiVAD devices. Dr. Vadim Gudzenko moderates the discussion. Dr. Jai Madhok moderates the next panel as Dr. Nida Aftab, Dr. Nicole Arkin, and Dr. Alexander Nagrebetsky present data on wearable glucose monitoring devices, novel diabetes treatments, and glucose goals in the ICU. “Emergency airway management outside the OR” is the third educational offering on the critical care track and will be moderated by Dr. Elizabeth Cotter. Dr. Kunal Karamchandani, Dr. Nibras Bughrara, and Dr. Craig Jabaley discuss optimizing hemodynamics, the use of POCUS, choice of induction medications, and the future of ICU airway management.

The final educational session of Saturday is a new joint offering from the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF) and SOCCA open to all attendees of the IARS/ SOCCA Annual meeting. Thanks to the generous donation of Dr. Joseph Meltzer and family, we are thrilled to present the first annual Alan G. Sieroty APSF/SOCCA Lecture. Dr. Meghan Lane-Fall will present a keynote lecture entitled “Integrating Human Factors Engineering & Implementation Science to Support Safety in Anesthesiology & Critical Care.” Following the keynote, we encourage an interactive discussion regarding patient safety in anesthesia and critical care, which will be led by Dr. Steven Greenberg with additional panelists Dr. Christina Hayhurst, Dr. Craig Jabaley, Dr. Kunal Karamchandani, and Dr. Jamie Sparling. Immediately following the APSF/SOCCA lecture, we will meet for the SOCCA Business Meeting.

The third and final day of the critical care track at the IARS/SOCCA Annual Meeting opens with a panel on clinical strategies to improve maternal mortality in our ICUs, moderated by Dr. Mohamed Tiourine. Dr. Ioannis Angelidis discusses the management of cardiac disease in the parturient, Dr. Emily Naoum presents on sepsis in pregnancy, and Dr. Kaitlyn Brennan reviews postpartum hemorrhage. We conclude the educational track with a panel on advances in sepsis management. Dr. Emily Vail, Dr. Romain Pirracchio and Dr. Matthieu Legrand will present on the heterogeneity of sepsis, individualization of steroid in sepsis and the dysregulation of the renin- angiotensin system.

We hope to see you all at the 2025 IARS/SOCCA Annual Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii.

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