Harvard Anesthesiology Update 2026 (Videos + PDFs)

The Harvard Anesthesiology Update 2026 program offers a comprehensive and advanced review of modern perioperative medicine. The curriculum covers a broad spectrum of critical topics, including the integration of artificial intelligence in anesthesia, advanced airway management, point-of-care ultrasound, obstetric anesthesia, and innovative multimodal pain strategies, equipping clinicians to enhance patient safety and operational outcomes.

The Comprehensive 2026 Anesthesiology Update Cardiac, Regional, Office-Based, Thoracic, Obstetric, Neuro, and Pediatric
Anesthesiology Update will be held on May 4–8, 2026. You have the option to attend either online as the course is live streamed or in person in Boston, MA.

In the past year, there have been significant clinical changes that affect the practice of anesthesiology. This comprehensive program provides a special and timely opportunity for anesthesiologists, nurse anesthetists, and others with interest in the field to hear directly from world-renowned specialists and master clinicians about these changes.

The curriculum at Anesthesiology Update 2026 ensures that attendees leave with a comprehensive understanding of the latest advances, risk mitigation strategies, and anesthesiology guidelines, and also with specific recommendations to incorporate these updates into practice.

The format is engaging and attendees are encouraged to pose questions of the national and international experts who will be delivering the updates and education at this event.

Updates, best practices and new guidelines cover:

• Hands-on cardiac, gastric and lung ultrasound
• Front of neck airway access
• High-flow nasal oxygen
• Advances in transfusion practices
• Artificial intelligence in anesthesia delivery
• Brain health: using artificial intelligence to predict neurocognitive disorders
• News from the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation
• High-risk obstetric patients: evidence-based care
• Perioperative resuscitation
• End-of-life care
• Mechanical circulatory support and intracardiac devices
• New developments in anesthetic pharmacology: hypnotics and analgesics
• Recent advances in airway management
• The agony of GLP-1 agonists
• Care of the geriatric patient for surgery
• Frontiers in quality measurement and improvement

Participants will take away important guidelines and checklists that they can put to immediate use in their anesthesia practice.

Program Highlights

2026 Guidelines, New Innovations, Challenging Cases, and State-of-the-Art Clinical and Patient Safety Updates in the Areas of:

• Regional anesthesia
• Cardiac anesthesia
• Critical care medicine
• Ambulatory anesthesia and office-based anesthesia
• Pediatric anesthesia
• Obstetric anesthesia
• Thoracic anesthesia
• Perioperative transfusion medicine
• Neuroanesthesia
• State-of-the-art pain management
• Patient safety and risk reduction
• Enhanced recovery after surgery

Important Drug Updates

• Anesthetic drugs in the development pipeline
• GLP-1 agonists
• Target-controlled Infusion
• New hypnotics
• Methadone in clinical care

Learning Objectives

• Apply principles for practicing perioperative ultrasound
• Diagnose and develop a treatment plan for cerebrovascular emergencies
• Recognize best practices in preoperative evaluation and risk assessment
• Integrate updated guidelines in practice when managing the difficult airway
• Implement current principles for appropriate opioid use and pain management
• Interpret the latest evidence-based practices in obstetric anesthesia
• Incorporate multimodal general anesthesia and enhanced recovery into clinical practice
• Discuss best practices in managing patients with morbid obesity and sleep apnea
• Integrate evidence-based protocols when practicing regional anesthesia
• Identify new drugs that can be incorporated into anesthesia practice