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Gabriel M. Gurman, MD Chief Editor A tragic event took place in the operating room. A very sick patient, who just passed a complicated emergent surgery, developed a massive haemorrhage which led to disseminated intravascular coagulation and the patient then died because of massive blood loss. The family was informed, the complication details have been […]

Like many others, our community has faced many challenges and loss of life due to this pandemic. We would like to recognize all of you who have continued to work tirelessly during these times to continue to save lives. We had hoped to be able to meet in person this year in Munich, but due […]

The stories selected for media releases from this year’s abstracts were from a variety of themes including COVID-related, environmental, 3D printing, the effects of general anaesthesia and differences in surgery outcomes between genders. However, the ongoing crisis of the new omicron variant of COVID-19 meant that these very worthy stories only received limited coverage. Below […]

Austrian study suggests that dialysis treatment does little to improve chances of survival in intensive care New research presented at this year’s Euroanaesthesia suggests that among COVID-19 patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU), those who have an abrupt decline in kidney function are more likely to die during hospitalisation than those with pre-existing […]

Saturday December 18, 14:00 – 15:00  – Channel 7 This three-part session on the middle day of Euroanaesthesia tackled various aspects of the opioid crisis. In her talk on the opioid-sparing effect of low-dose ketamine, Dr Marieke Niesters of Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands, discussed how normally moderate to severe postoperative pain is, in current […]

Sunday 19 December, 09:45 – 10:30 – Channel 4 This Sunday morning session on pain in the elderly was presented by Dr Peter Lee, Consultant Anaesthesiologist Bon Secours Hospital Cork, Ireland. “The undertreatment of postoperative pain in older people has been recognised as a problem in hospitals worldwide for at least 20 years,” he explained, […]

The 61-year-old patient suffered from severe post-COVID-19 respiratory failure after three months on an artificial lung that oxygenates blood and multiple treatment-related complications This Euroanaesthesia saw doctors in Lisbon report on the case of a 61-year-old man who received a double lung transplant after his lungs were irreparably damaged by COVID-19, in an abstract case […]

Professor Marc Samama (Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Perioperative Medicine, GHU AP-HP. Centre – Université de Paris) has taken over as the Editor-in-Chief of the society’s official journal EJA, and the soon to be established new journal EJAIC, which will incorporate more intensive care medicine. Q: Hello Marc and we hope you enjoyed Euroanaesthesia […]

In January 2022, Prof Edoardo De Robertis, Director of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care at the Università degli Studi di Perugia, will become the next President of ESAIC, taking over from Professor Kai Zacharowski. Here Edoardo tells us about his career and roles within the Society, and how he is looking forward to moving beyond COVID […]