The 2023 Symposium of the Society for the Advancement of Transplant Anesthesia

In conjunction with the annual meeting of the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS)

Note: SATA Council meeting on April 16

Monday April 17, 2023 (8 AM – 3:00 PM)

Location: Mineral A-C room on Level 3, Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center, 650 15th Street, Denver, CO 80202

Registration (with CME credit):

$50 for SATA, SOCCA and SCA members, $150 for non-members, free for trainees

7:30 am – 8:00 am Registration

8:00 am – 8:15 am Welcome and Introduction

8:15 am – 9:15 am: Session 1: The Yin and Yang of coagulation (60 min)

Moderator: Alexandra Ruan – Stanford University, Stanford, CA

New models and new drugs in coagulation (20-25 min)
- Art Bracey – Baylor College of Medicine
Anticoagulants and surgery: Stop, continue, reverse?
- Abdominal transplant (10 min)
  - Manoj Iyer – The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
- Thoracic transplant (SCA) (10 min)
  - Kenichi Tanaka – The University of Oklahoma College of Medicine

9:15 am – 9:45 am: Coagulation debate (30 min)

Are ROTEM and Cryoprecipitate dangerous for liver transplants? (10 min)
- Christine Nguyen-Buckley – University of California Los Angeles
Are PCC and Vit K dangerous for heart transplants? (10 min)
- Jiapeng Huang – University of Louisville, Kentucky

9:45 am – 10:30 am: Session 2: Pain and analgesia for transplant surgeries (45 min)

Regional techniques for thoracic transplants and VADs (10 min)
- Anis Dizdarevic – Columbia University, New York, NY
Indications and challenges to early extubation in the operating room (10 min)
- Courtney Scott – Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, FL
Analgesia for living liver donors (KSA) (15 min)
- Justin Ko – Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center; Director of Scientific Affairs, Korean Society of Anesthesiologists – Seoul, Korea

10:30 am – 11:00 am: Break

11:00 am – 11:20 am State of the Society

Ted Sakai, President of SATA – University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, PA
- (Introduction: Susan Mandell – McGovern Medical Center, Houston TX

11:20 am – 12:00 pm Case presentations

Moderator: Adrian Hendrickse – University of Colorado Denver, CO

Thoracic Transplant
- Michelle Chen- Columbia University, New York, NY
- Mentor: Andrea Miltiades – Columbia University, New York, NY
Abdominal transplant
- Zach Fleissner – Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, FL
- Mentor: Ryan Chadha – Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, FL

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Session: What’s new in organ donation and allocation (60 min)

How is transplantation organized: past and future of UNOS and organ transplantation in the US (15-20 min)
- Jennifer Prinz – CEO of Donor Alliance and Vice Chair of the OPTN Policy Committee
The impact of the new regulation of organ allocation on transplant practices (15-20 min)
- Jim Pompeselli – University of Colorado Denver, CO
Deceased donor management and machine perfusion modalities (15 min)
- Emily Vail – University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

1:00 pm – 1:30 pm Break

1:30 pm – 2:30 Session: How and why do we maintain blood pressure and perfusion (45 min)

Moderator: Ana Fernandez-Bustamante – University of Colorado Denver, CO

Just a bystander organ? How do we protect the kidney? (15 min)
- HT Lee – Columbia University, New York, NY
New kids on the block
- Angiotensin (10 min)
  - Michael Bokoch – University of California San Francisco, CA
- Terlipressin (in collaboration with the Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologist, SOCCA) (10 min)
  - Sathish Kumar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

2:30 pm – 2:45 pm First SATA Research Award

SATA Research Committee
- She- Lu Pai – Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, FL
- Dieter Adelmann – University of California San Francisco, CA

2:45 pm – 3:00 pm Closing Remarks