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what we all need   Patient safety is a critical component of healthcare that directly impacts patient outcomes, healthcare costs, and overall quality of care. Understanding and prioritising patient safety is particularly vital for anesthesiology and intensive care residents, who are in the early stages of their careers. As the healthcare system becomes increasingly complex, the […]

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used to create them!”  The quote attributed to Albert Einstein  Even in the early days of anaesthesia, clinicians recognised that prolonged preoperative fasting exacerbated existing states of exhaustion [1]. This changed radically in 1946 when the obstetrician Mendelson described 66 cases of aspiration of gastric […]

I received this morning the following message from Lise Carratala and Hugues Scipioni from ESAIC Headquarters in Brussels: “Hugues and I wanted to share some amazing news with you: We can already communicate with certainty that we have reached 4,000 EDAIC Part I candidates on the 40th anniversary of the EDAIC!  We thought you would […]

European study on perioperative management and outcome following Preoperative Transthoracic Echocardiography in noncardiac surgery patients  The ESAIC vision, “Together for improved health outcomes, patient safety, and greater environmental sustainability across anaesthesiology and intensive care”, is put into action in multiple research activities. Excellence and cooperation or more appropriately excellence through cooperation are the pillars on […]

Join the ESAIC-endorsed STARGATE project!  The  International obServational sTudy on AiRway manaGement in operAting room and non-operaTing room anaEsthesia – STARGATE study – is an ESAIC endorsed international observational study aiming at collecting information on advanced airway management during anaesthesia and non-operating room anaesthesia (NORA). It will collect prospective information on worldwide practice of supraglottic […]

No guidelines on the use of muscle relaxants in anaesthetised children have been published so far, although they are frequently used in this population. For example, in APRICOT, 60.8 % of tracheal intubations were performed with a muscle relaxant1. In addition, muscle relaxation is rarely monitored in children, especially in neonates and infants: neuromuscular monitoring […]

Neuromuscular blocking agents (NMBAs) form a pivotal drug category in daily perioperative care. NMBAs agents improve intubating conditions, reduce laryngeal morbidity, and facilitate surgery. Hence, appropriate dosing, monitoring & reversal are essential to mitigate postoperative residual paralysis (RP) and postoperative pulmonary complications (POPC). However, the incidence of RP and POPC remains unacceptably high. An incomplete […]

The ESAIC venous thromboembolism (VTE) guidelines provide a comprehensive and evidence-based framework for the prevention of VTE in clinical practice. These guidelines are pivotal for clinicians in improving patient outcomes by standardizing care protocols for VTE, which includes deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE). They will be published as a whole in the […]

Towards a European improvement in the management of failing epidural analgesia during labour Recent History of labour epidural analgesia.  Labour Epidural Analgesia (LEA) has been the gold standard for pain relief during delivery for several decades1. In the last years, advancements in the techniques and administration methods of LEA made delivery safer and more comfortable […]