We are already working at the preliminary programme of the next ISVRA Congress. The Congress will be the 14thof June 2014 at Palazzo dei Congressi in Riccione, in conjunction with the Merial International Congress. One of the invited speakers is Marco Ruffato, DVM, Staff Anesthesiologist and Emergency Clinician at Palm Beach Veterinary Specialists (West Palm Beach, Florida). Marco completed a standard ACVAA residency at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University in 2012, and moved to Florida then. He has accepted to talk about anaesthesia and the emergent patient including BLS-ACLS, preoperative assessment, anaesthetic planning, and special situations.