Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the European Association for Cardiothoracic Surgery. Lisbon, Portugal. October 1-5, 2011. Contact: www.eacts.org. Eighteenth International Congress of the Czech Society of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine. Prague, Czech Republic. October 6-8, 2011. Contact: www.csarim2011.cz; e-mail: [email protected] . American Society of Anesthesiologists' Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL. October 15-19, 2011. Contact: ASA, 520 N. Northwest Highway, Park Ridge, IL 60068; www.ASAhq.org. ECMO 2011 International Meeting. Milan, Italy. October 21-22, 2011. Contact: www.ecmo2011.org. Seventh International Meeting on Intensive Cardiac Care. Tel Aviv, Israel. October 30-November 1, 2011. Contact: E-mail: [email protected] . www.isas.co.ie/isas.co.il. Twenty-Second Annual Congress of the European Society of Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care. Hannover, Germany. November 2-5, 2011. Contact: e-mail: [email protected] . Surgery of the Thoracic Aorta. Bologna, Italy. November 7-8, 2011. Contact: www.noema-congressi.it. Sixty-Fifth Postgraduate Assembly, New York State Society of Anesthesiologists. New York, NY. December 9-11, 2011. Contact: NYSSA, 85 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003; e-mail: [email protected] . Thirtieth Annual Symposium Clinical Update in Anesthesiology, Surgery, and Perioperative Medicine. San Juan, Puerto Rico. January 15-21, 2012. Contact: www.clinicalupdateinanesthesiology.org; e-mail: [email protected] . Forty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons. Fort Lauderdale, FL. January 30-February 1, 2012. Contact: www.sts.org. Fifty-Seventh Annual Update in Anesthesiology. University of Utah, Park City, UT. February 12-17, 2012. Contact: www.medicine.utah.edu/anesthesiology/postgraduate; e-mail: [email protected] . Sixth World Congress: World Institute of Pain. Miami Beach, FL. February 4-6, 2012. Contact: e-mail: [email protected] . www.kenes.com/wip. Fifty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Indian Association of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons. Kolkata, India. February 10-12, 2012. Contact: www.iacts2012.com. Thirty-Second International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine. Brussels, Belgium. March 20-23, 2012. Contact: Erasmus University Hospital, Route de Lennik 808, B-1070 Brussels, Belgium; www.intensive.care; e-mail: [email protected] . Fifteenth World Congress of Anesthesiologists. Buenos Aires, Argentina. March 25-30, 2012. Contact: www.wca2012.com. Sixty-First International Congress of the European Society for Cardiovascular and Endovascular Surgery. Dubrovnik, Croatia. April 25-28, 2012. Contact: e-mail: [email protected] . Ninety-Second Annual Meeting of the Association of Thoracic Surgeons. San Francisco, CA. April 28-May 2, 2012. Contact: www.aats.org. Thirty-Fourth Annual Meeting and Workshops of the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists. Boston, MA. April 28-May 2, 2012. Contact: www.scahq.org. Annual Meeting of the International Anesthesia Research Society. Boston, MA. May 18-21, 2012. Contact: www.iars.org. European Association of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia (EACTA). Amsterdam, The Netherlands. May 23-25, 2012. Contact: www.eacta.org. Second International Congress: Anesthesia for Seniors. Prague, Czech Republic. June 7-9, 2012. Contact: www.anesthesiaforseniors2012.cz. Twentieth European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery. Essen, Germany. June 10-13, 2012. Contact: e-mail: [email protected] . Fifteenth World Congress of Pain Clinicians. Granada, Spain. June 27-30, 2012. Contact: e-mail: [email protected] . Thirteenth International Meeting of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia and the New Zealand Anesthesia Annual Scientific Meeting. Auckland, New Zealand. November 14-17, 2012. Contact: www.iccva2012.com. Fifth International Congress: Aortic Surgery and Anesthesia “How to do it.” Milan, Italy. December 2012 (DTBA). Contact: www.aorticsurgery.it. 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. Complete information must be received at least 4 months before the date of publication and should be addressed to George Silvay, MD, PhD, Editor, Professor of Anesthesiology, Department of Anesthesiology, Mount Sinai Medical Center, 1 Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1010, New York, NY 10029-6574; e-mail: [email protected] .