2022 Winners

Award for Best Abstract in Ambulatory Anesthesia

Dr Tripti Nagdev

Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, London Health Sciences Centre,
University of Western Ontario, Canada

A retrospective study to optimize post-anaesthetic recovery time after ambulatory lower limb orthopaedic procedures at a tertiary care hospital in Canada

Award for Best Abstract in Chronic Pain

Dr Maggie Z.X. Xiao

Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON

Chronic post-surgical pain after cardiac surgery: A single-center prospective cohort study

Award for Best Abstract in Education and Simulation in Anesthesia

Dr Sabine Nabecker

Mount Sinai Hospital Toronto

Education & Simulation - Deception in simulation and its effects on the learner – a qualitative study

Award for Best Abstract in Obstetric Anesthesia (residents)

Dr Brendan Morgan

Department of Women’s & Obstetric Anesthesia, IWK Health Centre, Dalhousie
University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

A Retrospective Cohort Study Comparing Catheter Replacement Rates with Programmed Intermittent Epidural Bolus and Continuous Epidural Infusion.

Award for Best Abstract in Obstetric Anesthesia (anesthesiologists)

Dr Natalia Portela

Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto

Spontaneous and oxytocin-induced contractility after exposure to intravenous anesthetic agents: an in-vitro study in human myometrium

Award for Best Abstract in Pediatric Anesthesia

Dr Katherine Impey

Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Total IV versus Volatile Anesthetic for Pediatric Tonsillectomies and the Incidence of Perioperative Respiratory Adverse Events: A Cohort Study (TIVA Study)

Award for Best Abstract in Perioperative Medicine

Dr Paula Perez

Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Toronto, and the Department of Anesthesia and Pain Management, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario

Delayed graft function after kidney transplantation: quantifying the role of intraoperative hypotension (The DeGift Study)

Award for Best Abstract in Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain

Dr Maxime Caron-Goudreau

Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC

Erector spinae block (ESP) as an analgesic technique for video-assisted thoracoscopy surgery (VATS): a randomized-controlled bicentric study

Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society Critical Care Medicine Award

Dr Louis Morisson

Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Montreal, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Development and validation of a machine-learning algorithm to predict rescue ECMO implantation after post-cardiotomy low cardiac output syndrome

CVT Raymond Martineau Prize

Dr Kyle Chin

University of Toronto

Nephrectomy Negatively Impacts Physiological Mechanisms That Maintain Rat Brain Oxygenation Following Acute Hemodilutional Anemia

Ian White Patient Safety Award

Dr Tariq Esmail

Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Management, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Increasing Perioperative Cefazolin Utilization for Surgical Site Infection Prophylaxis in β-Lactam Allergic Patients: An interrupted time-series study

Richard Knill Competition

Dr Clyde Matava

Hopsital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON

An International Multicenter Observational Study of Patient and Process Outcomes among 3302 Pediatric Patients Undergoing Appendectomy During the COVID-19 Pandemic

1st Place Residents' Oral Competition

Dr Chenchen Tian