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Saturday December 18, 08:15 – 09:15 – Channel 3 This three-part session on the complicated pathogenesis of Covid-19 induced respiratory failure will be opened by Professor Paolo Pelosi, Anesthesia and Critical Care – San Martino Policlinico Hospital – IRCCS for Oncology and Neurosciences – Genoa and Department of Surgical Sciences and Integrated Diagnostics – University […]

Saturday December 18, 09:30 – 10:30 – Channel 6 There is widespread recognition that anaesthesia must play its part in reducing the global carbon footprint. This three-part session on exactly this topic starts with a talk by Dr Nicolaas Sperna Weiland, Dept of Anaesthesiology and Centre for Sustainable Healthcare, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He […]

Saturday December 18, 14:00 – 15:00 – Channel 3 This four-part session on Saturday afternoon will feature specialists from a range of disciplines. The management of cardiac arrest with a focus on hypothermic patients will be presented by Dr Peter Paal, Hospitallers Brothers Hospital, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria, who will say: “Hypothermic compared to normothermic […]

Saturday December 18, 17:00 – 18:00 – Channel 4 Pro-con debates have been a regular fixture of Euroanaesthesia for more than a decade, and this Saturday afternoon debate focuses on the issue of premedication in the elderly. Pro Position: Mark Coburn; Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine; University Hospital Bonn; Bonn; Germany Surgery in […]

Israel study reports on 20 patients undergoing lung and chest surgery, including a 35-week-old fetus in the womb and 11 children. Anaesthesiologists used CT scans to create exact 3D printed plastic models and virtual reality reconstructions of patient airways on which to plan and practice anaesthetic procedures. One of the abstracts being presented at this […]

Below you can find the direct links to the various news sources covering our congress and sessions, such as our recent stories on heart and lung transplantation in seriously ill COVID patients. La Repubblica (Italy) – In Portugal double lung transplant on Covid patient, the man is well – the Republic (repubblica.it) Breaking news – In […]

Friday December 17, 10:00 – 10:30 – Channel 2 This year’s Sir Robert Macintosh lecture discussing the anaesthesia workforce will be given by Professor of Anaesthesia Bisola Onajin-Obembe, the University of Port Harcourt and Consultant Anaesthesiologist at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Nigeria. She will explain that the insufficient surgical workforce including a […]

For the second year in succession, the ESAIC Board of Directors and Secretariat have made the difficult decision to hold an entirely online Euroanaesthesia 2021. Due to rising COVID-19 cases across Germany and Europe in general, it is no longer possible to hold an in-person event. ESAIC President Prof Kai Zacharowski warmly welcomes all delegates […]

Session 01L1 – Friday December 17, 15:15 – 16:00  – Channel 5 This lecture on future technology will be given during Friday afternoon’s sessions by Dr Alexandre Joosten, Department of Anesthesiology, Erasme Hospital, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium. “As most of us are aware, almost every facet of our society is becoming, for better […]