Conferences

Past Conferences

POQI 22 - Cardiogenic Shock

Irvine, Orange County, CA, USA. December 2025.

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POQI 21 - Enhanced PostOperative Care (EPOC)

San Antonio, TX, USA. October 2025.

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POQI 20 - Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Perioperative Care

London, UK. July 2025.

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POQI 19 - Value Proposition of Perioperative Medicine. Phase IV - Actionable Solutions

Melbourne, Australia. November 2024.

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POQI 18 - Shared Decision Making

Melbourne, Australia. October 2024.

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POQI 17 - Best Practice in Perioperative Nutrition

Southampton, UK. June 2024.

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POQI 16 - Defining the Value Proposition of Perioperative Medicine. Phase III - Global Focus

Singapore. March, 2024.

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POQI 15 - Surgery School

Virtual. January-March 2024 (4 meetings).

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POQI14 - Temporary Mechanical Circulatory Support

San Antonio, TX, USA. January 2024.

POQI-13 - Defining the Value Proposition for Perioperative Medicine. Phase II - United States Perspectives

Charlotte, NC, USA. November 2023.

POQI-12 - Defining the Value Proposition for Perioperative Medicine. Phase I - Principles and Underlying Concepts

Kinsale & Killarney, Ireland. September 2023.

POQI-11 - Best Practices in Perioperative Medicine

London, UK. July 2023.

Workgroups:

• Fluid management
  
• Arterial pressure management
  
• Goal-directed haemodynamic therapy

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POQI-10 - Gut as Motor of Multiple Organ Failure

Cleveland, OH, USA. June 2023.

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POQI-9 - Perioperative Right Heart Function

New Orleans, LA, USA. December 2022.

Workgroups:

• Assessment of right ventricular function
  
• Management of right ventricular failure
  
• Physiology of right heart function

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POQI-8 - Enhanced Recovery after Cardiac Surgery

Sacramento, CA, USA. October 2021.
Joint meeting with the Enhanced Recovery after Cardiac Surgery society (www.erascardiac.org)

Workgroups

• Minimizing opioid use in cardiac surgery
  
• Patient blood management before, during and after cardiac surgery
  
• Prevention of cardiac surgery-associated AKI

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POQI 7 - Perioperative AKI

Cambridge, UK. September 2019.
Joint meeting with the Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative (ADQI).

Workgroups:

• Epidemiology of peri-operative AKI
  
• Definitions of peri-operative AKI
  
• Prevention strategies for patients at high risk of peri-operative AKI.
  
• Prognosis and treatment for patients developing peri-operative AKI.
  
• Outcomes after peri-operative AKI and long-0term management.

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POQI 6 - Role of Neuromonitoring in Perioperative Outcomes

Dallas, TX, USA. December 2018.

Workgroups:

• Postoperative Delirium Prevention
  
• Near-Infrared Spectroscopy
  
• Processed EEG

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POQI 5 - Fluid Physiology

Durham, NC, USA. June 2018.

Workgroups:

• Fluid responsiveness and venous capacitance
  
• Total body water and electrolytes, modified Starling forces, and lymph drainage

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Nashville, TN, USA. January 2018.

Workgroups:

• Burden of opioids
  
• Opioid minimization and opioid free anesthesia
  
• Perioperative management of patients on chronic opioids

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POQI 3 - Perioperative blood pressure

London, UK. July 2017

Workgroups:

• Physiology of BP control
  
• Preoperative BP: risks, goals, and outcomes
  
• Intraoperative BP: risks, goals, and outcomes
  
• Postoperative BP: risks, goals, and outcomes

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POQI 2 - Emerging Concepts within Enhanced Recovery Pathways

Stony Brook, NY, USA. December 2016.

Workgroups:

• Patient reported outcomes
  
• Perioperative nutrition
  
• Postoperative Gastrointestinal Dysfunction

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POQI 1 - Key topics within Enhanced Recovery for colorectal surgery

Durham, NC, USA. March 2016.

Workgroups:

• Perioperative fluid management
  
• Perioperative analgesia
  
• Preventing nosocomial infection
  
• Measurement to maintain and improve quality of Enhanced Recovery Pathways

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