📅 Date & Time: October 21, 2025 – 18:00 (Europe/Brussels)
🎓 Accreditation: This activity is accredited with 1.0 European CME credits (ECMEC®s) by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME®).
Webinar Overview
Managing perioperative anxiety is essential to preventing complications and enhancing patient comfort. This live webinar will address the limitations of pharmacological approaches and present innovative digital solutions for sedation and anxiolysis, with a special focus on virtual reality (VR) applications.
Participants will gain valuable insights into safer and effective non-pharmacologic strategies that improve patient comfort, reduce anxiety-related morbidity, and support better perioperative outcomes.
Scientific Faculty
Host
- Dr Hugo Vereecke (BE)
Department of Anaesthesiology, AZ Sint-Jan Brugge-Oostende AV, Brugge, Belgium
Speakers
- Dr Sabine Maes (BE)
Department of Anaesthesiology, Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem, Belgium - Dr Emmanuel Boselli (NL)
Department of Anaesthesiology, Centre hospitalier Pierre Oudot, Bourgoin-Jallieu, France
Interactive Learning Format
The session will actively engage participants through:
- Polls – to foster interactivity and stimulate discussion.
- Q&A Sessions – real-time interaction with faculty, with audience questions curated for relevance.
Learning Aims
- Recognize the morbidity and complications associated with perioperative anxiety.
- Understand the limitations of pharmacological strategies in perioperative sedation and anxiolysis.
- Explore innovative digital and non-pharmacologic solutions for managing perioperative anxiety.
- Examine the role of virtual reality (VR) in sedation and anxiolysis, highlighting applications, benefits, and effectiveness in improving patient safety and comfort.
👉 Join us on October 21, 2025, at 18:00 (Europe/Brussels) for this cutting-edge educational webinar!
