Johns Hopkins Perioperative Management – In Its 41st Year 2026 (Videos)

Comprehensive Perioperative Medicine, Preoperative Assessment, Anesthesia, POCUS, AI & Surgical Patient Management

Advance your expertise in perioperative medicine with Johns Hopkins Perioperative Management – In Its 41st Year 2026, a comprehensive continuing medical education (CME) program that provides the latest evidence-based strategies for managing surgical patients before, during, and after surgery.

Held February 15–18, 2026, this internationally recognized annual conference from Johns Hopkins Medicine delivers four days of expert-led education covering every phase of perioperative care. The program integrates current clinical guidelines, multidisciplinary collaboration, cutting-edge research, and practical case-based learning to help clinicians optimize outcomes for increasingly complex surgical patients.

Featuring lectures, panel discussions, and optional hands-on workshops in Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) and clinician wellness, this course equips healthcare professionals with practical tools for modern perioperative practice.

Product Details

• Course: Johns Hopkins Perioperative Management – In Its 41st Year 2026
• Provider: Johns Hopkins Medicine
• Conference Dates: February 15–18, 2026
• Format: Videos
• Language: English
• Educational Level: Advanced
• Learning Format: Expert Lectures, Case-Based Discussions, Interactive Panels, POCUS Workshops

Course Overview

More than 300 million surgical procedures are performed worldwide each year, and today’s surgical patients are older, medically complex, and increasingly managed in outpatient and ambulatory settings. Successful perioperative care now requires close collaboration among anesthesiologists, surgeons, cardiologists, pulmonologists, internists, intensivists, and numerous other specialists.

Johns Hopkins Perioperative Management 2026 delivers an up-to-date review of perioperative medicine, incorporating the latest evidence, clinical guidelines, and technological advances. Participants will explore perioperative cardiovascular and pulmonary evaluation, blood management, anticoagulation, diabetes optimization, renal and hepatic disease, postoperative pain control, infection prevention, artificial intelligence, continuous physiologic monitoring, and ultrasound-guided perioperative procedures.

The curriculum also addresses clinician wellness and burnout while emphasizing patient safety, multidisciplinary teamwork, and evidence-based perioperative decision-making.

What You’ll Learn

After completing this course, participants will be able to:

• Perform evidence-based preoperative cardiac and pulmonary risk assessments.
• Optimize perioperative management of patients with complex medical comorbidities.
• Apply modern blood conservation and anticoagulation strategies.
• Improve perioperative pain management using multimodal analgesia.
• Prevent and manage healthcare-associated surgical infections.
• Integrate AI and advanced physiologic monitoring into perioperative workflows.
• Utilize point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) for vascular access, cardiac, pulmonary, and regional anesthesia applications.

Comprehensive Topics Covered

Preoperative Evaluation

Optimize surgical risk assessment.

Topics include:

• Preoperative assessment
• Cardiac risk stratification
• Pulmonary evaluation
• Surgical optimization
• Functional assessment
• Risk prediction
• Clinical guidelines

Cardiovascular & Pulmonary Medicine

Improve perioperative outcomes.

Topics include:

• Cardiac complications
• Pulmonary complications
• Heart failure
• Hypertension
• Cardiopulmonary physiology
• Hemodynamic management
• Perioperative monitoring

Blood Management & Anticoagulation

Reduce perioperative complications.

Topics include:

• Perioperative anemia
• Blood transfusion
• Antithrombotic therapy
• Anticoagulation management
• Coagulation testing
• Antifibrinolytics
• Bleeding prevention

Medical Optimization

Manage complex comorbidities.

Topics include:

• Diabetes
• Chronic kidney disease
• Liver disease
• Frailty
• Delirium
• Obesity
• Endocrine disorders

Pain Management

Enhance postoperative recovery.

Topics include:

• Acute postoperative pain
• Multimodal analgesia
• Opioid stewardship
• Non-opioid analgesics
• Cannabis considerations
• Enhanced recovery
• Patient comfort

Infection Prevention

Improve surgical safety.

Topics include:

• Surgical site infections
• Healthcare-associated infections
• Antimicrobial strategies
• Infection prevention
• Perioperative antibiotics
• Patient safety
• Quality improvement

Artificial Intelligence & Digital Health

Explore future perioperative medicine.

Topics include:

• Artificial intelligence
• Clinical decision support
• Continuous physiologic monitoring
• Predictive analytics
• Workflow optimization
• Digital medicine
• Future healthcare technologies

Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS)

Strengthen procedural and diagnostic skills.

Topics include:

• Ultrasound-guided vascular access
• Cardiac ultrasound
• Lung ultrasound
• Transthoracic echocardiography
• Peripheral nerve blocks
• Hemodynamic assessment
• Unstable patient algorithms

Wellness & Professional Development

Promote clinician well-being.

Topics include:

• Burnout prevention
• Emotional resilience
• Gratitude
• Workforce wellness
• Patient safety
• Professional satisfaction
• Healthcare quality

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this educational activity, participants will be able to:

• Apply current guidelines for preoperative cardiac and pulmonary risk assessment and reduce perioperative complications.
• Implement evidence-based strategies for managing perioperative anemia, blood transfusion, anticoagulation, and coagulation disorders.
• Optimize perioperative care for patients with diabetes, renal insufficiency, liver disease, frailty, and delirium.
• Utilize multimodal analgesia and contemporary pain management strategies, including non-opioid therapies.
• Prevent, recognize, and manage healthcare-associated infections in surgical patients.
• Optimize perioperative medication management for hypertension, diabetes, obesity, heart failure, and immunomodulatory therapies.
• Recognize the impact of clinician well-being on patient safety and healthcare quality.
• Evaluate current and emerging applications of artificial intelligence in perioperative medicine.
• Perform basic ultrasound-guided vascular access and interpret essential cardiac and pulmonary ultrasound views.
• Apply POCUS algorithms in unstable perioperative patients and facilitate ultrasound-guided peripheral nerve blocks.

Educational Highlights

• Perioperative Medicine
• Anesthesiology
• Preoperative Assessment
• Postoperative Care
• Cardiac Risk Assessment
• Pulmonary Evaluation
• Blood Management
• Anticoagulation
• Multimodal Analgesia
• Postoperative Pain
• Surgical Infections
• Artificial Intelligence
• Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS)
• Vascular Access
• Lung Ultrasound
• Cardiac Ultrasound
• Peripheral Nerve Blocks
• Clinician Wellness
• Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS)
• Continuing Medical Education (CME)

Why This Course Stands Out

Johns Hopkins Perioperative Management – In Its 41st Year 2026 is one of the most comprehensive educational programs in perioperative medicine. Combining expert faculty, multidisciplinary perspectives, evidence-based guidelines, hands-on ultrasound education, AI innovations, and practical management strategies, it prepares clinicians to care for increasingly complex surgical patients while improving safety, efficiency, and long-term outcomes.

Target Audience

This educational activity is ideal for:

• Anesthesiologists
• Cardiologists
• Pulmonologists
• Surgeons
• Hospitalists
• Intensivists
• Nephrologists
• Endocrinologists
• Infectious Disease Specialists
• Geriatricians
• Internal Medicine Physicians
• Nurse Practitioners
• Physician Assistants
• Residents
• Fellows
• Healthcare Professionals involved in perioperative care

Why Choose This Course?

Whether you practice anesthesiology, surgery, hospital medicine, or perioperative consultation, Johns Hopkins Perioperative Management – In Its 41st Year 2026 provides a comprehensive, evidence-based update on modern perioperative medicine. Through expert-led lectures, multidisciplinary discussions, and practical POCUS instruction, participants gain immediately applicable knowledge that improves perioperative assessment, intraoperative management, postoperative recovery, and patient safety.

Topics

Day 1: Sunday, February 15, 2026

• Introduction and Conference Goals

• Preoperative Cardiac Risk Assessment and Testing

• Prevention and Treatment of Perioperative Myocardial Injury

• Perioperative Management of Patients with Cardiomyopathy

• Preoperative Evaluation: Optimized, Not Cleared

• Perioperative Management of Patients on Anti-Platelet Therapy

• Perioperative Management of Patients on Warfarin and Direct Oral Anticoagulants (DOACs)

• Preoperative Evaluation and Management of the Patient with Heart Failure

• Preoperative Management of the Patient with “New ECG Abnormalities”

• Practical Interpretation and Perioperative Implications of an ECHO Report

• To Stop or Not to Stop: Managing Immune Modulating Agents and other meds before surgery

• Resolving Common Perioperative Conundrums: The Role of Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS)

Day 2: Monday, February 16, 2026

• Preoperative Pulmonary Risk Assessment and Testing

• Perioperative Management of the Patient with Pulmonary Hypertension

• Management of Perioperative Anemia, Transfusion, and Bleeding

• Burnout and Emotional Exhaustion- Impact on Healthcare Outcomes

• Improving your Wellbeing and Patient Outcomes through Better Work-Life Integration

• Perioperative Respiratory Insufficiency: Mechanisms and Management

• Perioperative Management of the Patient with a Pacemaker or ICD

• To Cath or Not to Cath: What to do with the Patient with a Positive Postop Troponin

• Perioperative Hemodynamic Management- Can Goal Directed Therapy and Individualized Targets Improve Outcome?

• Incidence, Implications, and Management of Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation

• Challenging Airways: Keeping You and Your Patient Safe

• “It’s only a sedation case…”: Strategies to Prevent a Cardiopulmonary Catastrophe

• Acute Hypoxia in the PACU or Ward: Differentiating the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

• Optional Workshop: Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS)

Day 3: Tuesday, February 17, 2026

• Perioperative Management of Diabetes and Hyperglycemia

• Perioperative Renal Dysfunction

• Acute Pain Management: Limiting Narcotics through Multimodal Analgesia

• Prevention and Treatment of Surgical Site Infections

• Preventing, Identifying, and Managing Common Healthcare Associated Infections

• Managing the Pregnant Patient for Obstetrical and Non-Obstetrical Surgery

• Managing Surgical Patients with Diabetes and Hyperglycemia: Case presentations

• Perioperative Management of Hyponatremia and Other Electrolyte Abnormalities

• Perioperative Management of the Patient with Chronic Opioid Use Disorder: Methadone, Buprenorphine, and more

• What’s New in Pain Management: suzetrigine and cannabis

• Can we reduce acute kidney injury by improving perioperative hemodynamic management?

• Perioperative Fluid Management

• Identifying and Mitigating Perioperative Risks in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea

• Optional Workshop: Wellness Workshop

Day 4: Wednesday, February 18, 2026

• Perioperative DVT and Pulmonary Embolism

• Post-Operative Delirium: Prevention and Treatment

• Identifying and Managing Risks in Ambulatory Surgery Patients

• Perioperative Management of Hepatic Dysfunction

• Improving Perioperative Quality and Safety through System and Culture Change

• Frailty: Measurement, Prehabilitation, and Periop Management

• Managing End of Life Care in Surgical Patients

• ERAS (Enhanced Recovery After Surgery) for Ambulatory Surgery

• Postoperative Mental Status Changes in Geriatric Patients – Head CT and Call Neurology?

• Improving the Quality of Sepsis Care

• Continuous Physiologic Monitoring After the PACU: Which one and for whom?

• AI in Perioperative Medicine: Hype or Reality?