ANESTHESIOLOGY annual meeting 2026

How it compares

Euroanaesthesia is the closest international comparison for a clinician who wants broad anesthesia and intensive-care education. ESAIC brings European practice, clinical guidelines and research into the foreground, with a rotating congress city and an international delegate base. The 2025 congress welcomed 6,674 delegates from 113 countries and 86 participating companies. It is a strong choice for conversations across European health systems, while ANESTHESIOLOGY places those clinical questions alongside the workforce, practice organization and professional networks of US anesthesia.

PostGraduate Assembly in Anesthesiology offers another broad clinical route through NYSSA’s New York meeting. Its scientific panels, case-based learning discussions and POCUS master class suit an anesthesiologist who wants to work through specific perioperative problems with faculty. The regional society context and New York setting give it a different professional center of gravity. ANESTHESIOLOGY adds ASA’s national specialty gathering, its research and trainee communities, and an exhibit hall that connects clinical products with anesthesia employers and practice services.

For a department considering both clinical change and how to staff or organize it, ASA’s combination is especially useful. A visitor chiefly seeking European guideline discussions or a concentrated case-based teaching program has a clear alternative; a team that needs technology, colleagues and the wider specialty in one trip has a reason to choose ANESTHESIOLOGY.

ANESTHESIOLOGY suits anesthesia teams evaluating clinical change together with the technology, people and practice resources needed to deliver it.

Who exhibits

The floor combines the tools of anesthesia with the businesses that keep a practice running. GE HealthCare, Medtronic and Philips bring monitoring and medical technology; KARL STORZ adds airway equipment. NorthStar Anesthesia, TeamHealth and hospital recruiters make employment and practice organization visible alongside product evaluation. C8 Health introduces a software dimension, while pharmaceutical suppliers, publishers and professional societies broaden the mix. The result is a specialty exhibition where clinical purchasing and career conversations happen side by side.

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   Solventum

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   GE HealthCare

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   Medtronic

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   Elsevier

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   Springer

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   Vertex Pharmaceuticals

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   Draeger

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   Northwell Health

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   Weatherby Healthcare

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    Baxter

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    Philips

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    LocumTenens.com

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    PracticeLink

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    Mindray

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    Piedmont Healthcare

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    CompHealth

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    Teleflex

18. 

    HCA Healthcare

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    Getinge

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    Sutter Health

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    MDPI

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    Fujifilm Sonosite

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    Global Medical Staffing

24. 

    Banner Health

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ANESTHESIOLOGY annual meeting 2026

Will Flanary, known as Dr. Glaucomflecken, brings humor and humanity in medicine to the opening program. ASA PLUS adds a new subscription approach to continued learning, combining earlier annual-meeting material with sessions from this year after the event. On the exhibit floor, the new Passport Game accompanies returning features such as Swimming with Sharks, where entrepreneurs and inventors receive feedback from the specialty. Clinical discussion also extends to non-operating room anesthesia, workforce trends and physician well-being, alongside ASA’s established research lectures.

• For point-of-care ultrasound, distinguish the Diagnostic POCUS Certificate workshops from broader ultrasound teaching; the hands-on format serves a different learning goal.
• Use the Career Fair for employer and practice conversations, then compare the clinical technology separately; recruitment is a substantial part of this exhibition.
• Perioperative pathway leaders can follow the Center for Perioperative Medicine’s ten supported sessions as a coherent strand through the wider program.

Exhibiting

The audience spans practicing anesthesiologists, trainees and care teams, with exhibitors covering clinical equipment, medicines, staffing and practice services. A standard booth includes drape, identification within the stated size limit, a directory listing and two badges; exhibitors must also provide flooring. Hands-On Learning Labs and non-accredited Satellite Symposia offer distinct forms of supported education, while the Exhibit Hall Passport and Engage & Connect program provide additional routes into conversations on the floor.