Annual Meeting of the Canadian Anesthesiologists Society, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, June 15-18, 2012 Abstracts

This meeting, which focuses on anesthesiology, contains approximately 150 abstracts, all written in English. Topics covered include total intravenous anesthetics usage in children, epidural infusion analgesia, spinal fusion surgery, cardiopulmonary bypass, spinal cord ischemia, quality of labor analgesia and maternal satisfaction, scoliosis repair and ultrasound-guided subclavian vein catheterization. Also discussed are hip fracture, cadaveric renal transplantation, obesity hypoventilation syndrome, endovascular stroke therapy, craniopagus conjoined twins, pulmonary embolism and pulmonary hypertension.