World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists 19th World Congress of Anaesthesiologists 2026

1. Overview
The World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists 19th World Congress of Anaesthesiologists provides a massive, global perspective on the evolution and current challenges of modern anaesthesia. The program explores a wide array of disciplines, including advanced airway management, critical care, obstetric and pediatric anaesthesia, the integration of artificial intelligence, and strategies for global sustainability and patient safety.
Course Dates: April 16-19, 2026
In 2026, it heads to Morocco, marking a vibrant new chapter for this premier event. WCA2026 promises an extraordinary setting in the heart of North Africa, where anaesthesiologists and perioperative specialists from 130+ countries will converge to advance science, education, and collaboration in anaesthesia.
Against the stunning backdrop of Marrakech, WCA2026 will offer a uniquely immersive experience, fostering knowledge exchange, hands-on training, and meaningful global connections, all within a rich cultural landscape that amplifies the congress’s spirit of innovation and diversity.
2. Learning Objectives

Apply advanced airway management and ventilation strategies across diverse patient populations, including pediatric and critically ill cases.

Evaluate and implement innovations in perioperative pain management, neuroanaesthesia, and obstetric anesthesia to optimize patient outcomes.

Integrate artificial intelligence, big data analytics, and non-invasive monitoring into daily clinical decision-making.

Address global health challenges, including workforce shortages, medication access, and ethical issues in international partnerships.

Develop practical strategies for sustainability, the circular economy, and improving high-value care in both ambulatory and operating room settings.

3. Target Audience

Best for anesthesiologists, critical care physicians, and pain specialists who want updates on global anesthesia practices, airway management, and AI.

4. Topics

April 16 D.17.01 – Pro Con Debate

April 16 IND.01 Global Perspectives on Supply Chain Resilience Error from the original video publisher

April 16 L.01.01 – Oxygenation

April 16 L.01.02 Airway Pathologies

April 16 L.01.03 – Optimising Videolaryngos copy (VL)

April 16 L.01.04 – Supraglottic Airways

April 16 L.01.05 Awake Intubations

April 16 L.01.06 Patient at Risk for Aspiration

April 16 L.04.01 – Pulmonary Hypertension in Non-Cardiac Surgery

April 16 L.04.02 – The Changing Face Of Cardiac Anaesthesia

April 16 L.04.03 Congenital Heart Disease for Non Cardiac Surgery

April 16 L.04.04 Advanced Haemodynami c Monitoring in the Critically Ill Patient

April 16 L.04.05 Vasopressors and Inotropes in Septic Shock – New Directions

April 16 L.04.06 Cardiodynamic Considerations in Shock

April 16 L.05.01 – New Developments in Critical Care

April 16 L.05.02 Airway Management

April 16 L.11.02 Controversies in paediatric Pain Management, Bridging Theory to Practice

April 16 L.11.03 – Mastering the Paediatric Airway, Innovations and Best Practices in Anestthesia

April 16 L.11.04 – Sedation and Anasthesia Management in Padiatrics

April 16 L.11.05 Paediatric Cardiac Anaesthesia, From basic to Global Surgical Programmes

April 16 L.11.06 Education and Training in Paediatric Anaesthesia

April 16 L.12.02 – Optimising Perioperative Pain Management, Strategies and Solutions HFNC in Anesthesi…

April 16 L.12.03 Chronic Pain Patients, Anaesthesia Challenges

April 16 L.13.01 – Frailty and Ageing Perioperative Patient

April 16 L.13.02 Perioperative Fluid and Hoemodynamics

April 16 L.13.03Risk Assesment and Shared Decision Making

April 16 L.14.01 – Meet the Expert, TIVA and TCI

April 16 L.14.02 Updates in Pharmacology, Meet the Journal Editors

April 16 L.14.03 Neuroscience

April 16 L.14.04 Neuromuscular Block

April 16 L.14.05 Meet the Experts – Automation in Anaesthesia

April 16 L.15.01 – Gender – Is It Still a Source of Inequitymkv

April 16 L.15.02 How Do We Use Assessment To Support Wellbeing

April 16 L.15.03 Current Issues in Professional Practice

April 16 L.17.01 – Breast Surgery

April 16 L.17.02 – Abdominal Wall

April 16 L.17.03 Upper Limb

April 16 L.17.04 – Lower Limb

April 16 L.17.05 Chest Wall

April 16 L.18.01 – One Lung Ventilation

April 16 L.18.02 – HFNC in Anesthesia

April 16 L.18.03 – Meet the Experts – Brain Trauma and Ventilation

April 16 L.19.01 – Sad but True, Anaesthesia Safety During Disaster and Violence

April 16 L.19.02 – Is Our Work Unsafe When We Are Leaving the OR

April 16 L.19.03 – World Health Organization (WHO) Guidance on Implementing Patient Blood Managem…

April 16 L.19.04 Debate, Sustainability Versus Patient Safety, Do They Compete With Each Other

April 16 L11.01 – Non-invasive Monitoring and Standardisation in Pediatric Anaesthesia

April 16 L12.01 Chronic Presistent Postoperative Pain

April 16 SYMP.01 Continuous Noninvasive Blood Pressure Management, The New Standard

April 16 SYMP.02 Masimo Total Oxygen Delivery and Vital Organ Protection Platform , Optimizing Sedati…

April 16 SYMP.03 Innovation and Insights, Design a multimodal, data-integrated clinical pathway for opti…

April 16 SYMP.04 – Improving Patient Safety in the Operating Room

April 16 SYMP.08 Launching the Gradian Institute, Strenghtening Anesthesia and Critical Care Capacity

April 17 HGL – Harold Griffith Lecture, Can Anaestheologists Lead on Patient Safety Again

April 17 L.01.07 – Speciality Airway

April 17 L.01.08 Airway Management in the Critically Ill

April 17 L.01.09Airway Guidelnes

April 17 L.01.10 – Tracheotomy an Extubation

April 17 L.01.11 – Airway Management with Limited Ressources

April 17 L.05.04 Cancer in the ICU

April 17 L.06.01 Ethics in International Partnership

April 17 L.06.02 Accessing Grant Funding for Education and international Development initiatives in Glob…

April 17 L.06.03 Unwritten Lessons in Anaesthesia, How We Learn, Teach and Evolve

April 17 L.06.04 Training Medical Students in Anaesthesia, Preoperative Medicine Critical Care And Pain, Ex…

April 17 L.07.01 Comment Optimiser le Parcours en Chirurgie Majeure

April 17 L.07.02 – Comment Réduire la Morbi-Mortalité Maternelle

April 17 L.07.03 – Enejux de l’Anethésie Pediatrique

April 17 L.07.04 – Mise au Point en Neuro-Réanimation

April 17 L.07.05 – Gestion d’une Catastrophe au Bloc Opératoire ou Juste Après

April 17 L.08.01 Workforce Challenges, The Big Picture

April 17 L.08.02 – Workforce Storages Affect All Of Us, Challenges and Solutions From Around The World….

April 17 L.08.03 – Medication Access Plagues Us All

April 17 L.10.01 – Clinical Scenarios in Obstetric Anaesthesia and Analgesia

April 17 L.10.02 Management of Pain During Delivery, Improving Patient Care

April 17 L.10.03 Ultrasounds in Obstetric Anaesthesia

April 17 L.11.07 Next Generation Paediatric Anaesthesia, Safe Practices and Cutting-Edge Solutions

April 17 L.12.04 – Comprehensive Pain Management in Cancer Care, Best Practices and Innovations

April 17 L.12.05 – Decolonising Pain Management, a Global Perspective V2

April 17 L.13.04 perioperative Nutrition, Managing Obesity and Malnutrition

April 17 L.14.06 Artificial Intelligence In Anaesthesiology, Practical Applications and Innovations

April 17 L.14.07 AI-Enhanced Perioperative Care, From Analytics to Generative AI

April 17 L.14.08 Global Perspectives on AI, Multilingual Applications, Environmental Impact and Governan…

April 17 L.14.09 Lessons Learned From AI Implementation

April 17 L.14.10 Future of Anaesthesiology

April 17 L.17.06 Case-Based Discussions for The Regional Anaesthiologist

April 17 L.17.07 – Learning from Big Data

April 17 L.17.08 Opioids

April 17 L.17.09 The Future of Regional Anaesthesia

April 17 L.17.10 Safety and Complications

April 18 L.18.04 Lung Protection in the operating Room

April 18 L.18.05 – Mechanical Ventilation in Children

April 17 L.20.01 Circular Economy

April 17 L.20.02 – Implementing Solutions

April 17 L.20.03 Inhaled and Injectable Anaesthetics

April 17 SYMP.06 Desflurane in Modern Anaesthesia, Best Practices and Environmental Clarity

April 17 SYMP.07 Beyond the Pulse, Integrating Ultrasound and Cardiac Output Monitoring for Intraoper…

April 17 SYMP05 – From Innovation to Insights, Optimize Clinical Decisions in Perioperative Care

April 18 BBS. Best Basic Science Research Competition

April 18 BCR – Best Clinical Research Competition

April 18 FS1.15.01 – Unapologetically Ambitious Women in Leadership

April 18 L.02.01 Evolution of Ambulatory Anaesthesia

April 18 L.02.02 – Controversies in Ambulatory Anaesthesia

April 18 L.02.03 Non Operating Room Anaesthesia NORA

April 18 L.03.01 Oxygen – A Discussion of Its History and Accessibility

April 18 L.03.02 Ethical Issues in Anaesthesia

April 18 L.03.03 – Communicating Knowledge-A Journey Through the Ways and Means of Sharing Knowl…

April 18 L.04.07 Perioperative Haemodynamic Management

April 18 L.04.08 – New Insights Into Cardiovascular Disease Among the Critically Ill

April 18 L.04.09 – From Resuscitation to Deresuscitation

April 18 L.05.05 – Sepsis

April 18 L.05.06 ARDS In 2026

April 18 L.05.07 Status Epilepticus

April 18 L.05.08 Communication in the ICU

April 18 L.05.09 Artificial Intelligence in the ICU

April 18 L.09.01 – Recent Advances in Neuroscience

April 18 L.09.02 Traumatic brain and Spine Injury

April 18 L.09.03 – The Brain Hypotension

April 18 L.09.04 Postoperative Delirium

April 18 L.09.05 – The Electroencephalogram, EEG, During Anaesthesia

April 18 L.10.04 – Best Practice in Delivery Anaesthesia and Analgesia

April 18 L.10.05 Postpartum Haemorrhage

April 18 L.10.06 Obstetric Anaesthesia in LMIC

April 18 L.12.06 Undertreatment and Disparities in Management of Pain

April 18 L.13.05 – Diagnosis and Optimising Medical Conditions Before Surgery

April 18 L.13.06 Prehabilitation, The What, The WHy, The How

April 18 L.13.07 – Perioperative Blood Management

April 18 L.13.09 Perioperative Cancer Care

April 18 L.16.01 – AI, The Future of Research

April 18 L.16.02 Ethical Issues in Research and Publication

April 18 L.16.03 Tips and Tricks to Succeed in my Submission

April 18 L.16.04 – How to Improve the Impact of My Future Publication

April 18 L.18.06 – Innovations in Ventilation

April 18 L.18.07 Pulmonary Phisiology in the Operating Room

April 18 SYMP.09 Global Data, Local Impact, LASOS-Peds and the Future of Pediatric Surgical Equity

April 18 WFSA Innovation Awards

April 19 L.02.04 – Sate of The Art Care in Ambulatory Anaesthesia

April 19 L.02.05 Patient Selection in Ambulatory Anaesthesia

April 19 L.05.10 Magic Drugs

April 19 L.05.11 Avoiding Intubation

April 19 L.06.05 Low-Cost Innovative Options for Medical Education

April 19 L.06.06 Artificial Intelligence in Medical Education

April 19 L.09.06 – Neuroanaesthetic Challenges

April 19 L.09.07 – Stroke

April 19 L.10.09 – Pearls in Obstetric Anaesthesia an Analgesia

April 19 L.10.10 – Care of The Pregnant Patient With Comorbidity

April 19 L.13.10 Global Perspectives on Improving Surgical Outcome and High-Value Care

April 19 L.13.11 Enhanced recovery and Post Op Care

April 19 L.15.04 Culture – When Is It a Source of Inequity

April 19 L.15.05 – Well-Being Leading Out of Adversity

April 19 L.19.05 – Education in Patient Safety – What Are the Opportunities

April 19 L.19.06 – Safety and Advantages of New and Old Drugs