Twentieth Annual Congress European Society of Intensive Care. Berlin, Germany. October 7-10, 2007. Contact: ESICM, 40 Ave, Joseph Wybran, B-1070 Brussels, Belgium, www.esicm.org. ASA Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA. October 13-17, 2007. Contact: ASA, 520 N Northwest Highway, Park Ridge, IL 60068, www.asahq.org. Seventh Meeting of the Asian Society of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia. New Delhi, India. October 26-28, 2007. Contact: Department of Anesthesiology, Escort Heart Institute, Okla Road, New Delhi 110025, India, e-mail: [email protected] . Fifteenth ASEAN Congress of Anesthesiologists. Pattaya, Thailand. November 10-13, 2007. Contact: Lawson–Marsh Co, 1/70-71 Paholyotin Soi 40 Ladyo Jatujak, Bangkok 10900, Thailand. Eighteenth Biennal Congress Association of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons of Asia (ATCSA). Bali, Indonesia. November 25-28, 2007. Contact: National Cardiovascular Center, Jl. Let Jend S Parman Kav, 87 Slipi, Jakarta 11420, Indonesia, e-mail: [email protected] . Sixty-First Postgraduate Assembly in Anesthesiology, New York State Society of Anesthesiology. New York, NY. December 7-11, 2007. Contact: NYSSA, 85 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 10003, www.nyssa-pga.org. Twenty-Sixth Annual Symposium, Clinical Update in Anesthesiology, Surgery and Perioperative Medicine. Acapulco, Mexico. January 19-26, 2008. Contact: H. Phillips, Mt Sinai Medical Center, 1 Gustave L Levy Place, Box 1010, New York, NY 10029-6574, e-mail: [email protected] . Forty-Fourth Annual Meeting Society of Thoracic Surgeons. Fort Lauderdale, FL. January 28-30, 2008. Contact: STS 633 N Saint Clair Street, Suite 2320, Chicago, IL 60611, www.sts.org. Third French-American Meeting on Locoregional Anesthesia, Live Videotransmission of Ultrasound-Guided Blocks. Workshops on Phantom and Models. Paris, France. February 2, 2008. Contact: Michel Abiad, MD, The American Hospital of Paris, 63 Boulevard Victor Hugo, 92000 Neuilly sur Seine, France, e-mail: [email protected] . Fourteenth World Congress of Anesthesia. Cape Town, South Africa. March 2-7, 2008. Contact: www.wca2008.com. Thirteenth Annual Update on Cardiopulmonary Bypass. Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. March 9-15, 2008. Contact: SCA, PO Box 11086, 2209 Dickens Road, Richmond, VA 23230-1086, www.scahq.org. Twenty-Eighth International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine. Brussels, Belgium. March 18-21, 2008. Contact: Erasme University Hospital, Route de Lennik, 808, B-1070, Brussels, Belgium, e-mail: [email protected] . IARS Eighty-Second Clinical & Scientific Congress. San Francisco, CA. March 28-April 1, 2008. Contact: IARS, 2 Summit Park Drive, Suite 140, Cleveland, OH 44131, e-mail: [email protected] . Sixty-Fourth Annual Meeting Canadian Anesthesiologists Society. Halifax, Canada. May 15-16, 2008. Contact: CAS, One Eglinton Avenue East, Toronto, ON M4P3A1, Canada. Association of University Anesthesiologists Fifty-Fifth Annual Meeting. Durham, NC. May 16-18, 2008. Contact: AUA, 520 N. Northwest Highway, Park Ridge, IL 60068, www.auahq.org. Fourth International Conference on Pediatric Mechanical Circulatory Support, Pediatric Heart Transplantation and Pediatric Cardiopulmonary Perfusion. Portland, OR. May 22-24, 2008. Contact: Penn State College of Medicine, CME Dept., Box 851, Hershey, PA 17033, www.hmc.psu.edu/ce/pediatrics. Thirtieth International Congress of the International Society of Blood Transfusion. Macao, China. June 7-12, 2008. Contact: Eurocongress Conference Management, Jan van Goyenkade 11, 1075 HP Amsterdam, The Netherlands, e-mail: [email protected] . Thirtieth Annual Meeting and Workshop, Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. June 18-22, 2008. Contact: SCA, PO Box 11086, 2209 Dickens Road, Richmond, VA 23230-1086, www.scahq.org. Twenty-Second Annual Meeting Society for Pediatric Anesthesiology. Orlando, FL. October 7-9, 2008. Contact: SPA, 2209 Dickens Road, Richmond, VA 23230-2005, www.pedanesthesia.org. ASA Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA. October 17-21, 2008. Contact: ASA, 520 N Northwest Highway, Park Ridge, IL 60068, www.asahq.org. Sixty-Second Postgraduate Assembly in Anesthesiology, New York State Society of Anesthesiology. New York, NY. December 12-16, 2008. Contact: NYSSA, 85 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 10003, www.nyssa-pga.org. Forty-Fifth Annual Meeting Society of Thoracic Surgeons. San Francisco, CA. January 26-28, 2009. Contact: STS 633 N Saint Clair Street, Suite 2320, Chicago, IL 60611, www.sts.org. Fourteenth Annual Update on Cardiopulmonary Bypass. Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. March 15-19, 2009. Contact: SCA, PO Box 11086, 2209 Dickens Road, Richmond, VA 23230-1086, www.scahq.org. Thirty-First Annual Meeting and Workshop, Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesia. San Antonio, TX. April 18-22, 2009. Contact: SCA, PO Box 11086, 2209 Dickens Road, Richmond, VA 23230-1086, www.scahq.org. Fourteenth Annual Meeting of Japanese Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists and Eighth Meeting of the Asian Society of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia. Tokyo, Japan. September 10-12, 2009. Contact: Minoru Nomura, MD, Department of Anesthesiology, Women’s Medical University, 8-1 Kawada-Cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162 86666, Japan, e-mail: [email protected] . The journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia welcomes announcements of interest to physicians, researchers and others concerned with cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesiology, medicine, pharmacology, and related areas. All copies are reviewed and edited for style, clarity, and length. Information is due at least 90 days before the date of publication and should be addressed to George Silvay, MD, PhD, Editor, Department of Anesthesiology, Mount Sinai Medical Center, 1 Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1010, New York, NY 10029-6574.