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Today, we lost Professor Paolo Pelosi, an esteemed figure in the field of anaesthesiology and intensive care medicine. On May 30, 2023, Professor Pelosi passed away, leaving behind a legacy of exceptional contributions to medical research, clinical practice, and education. His untimely departure is a great loss to the medical community worldwide. Born in Milan, […]

Anne Marie Camilleri Podesta Member of the ESAIC National Anaesthesiologists Societies Committee (NASC) – Malta Representative, Federico Bilotta Chair of the ESAIC National Anaesthesiologists Societies Committee (NASC) Review of 2022 and projects for 2023 The NASC comprises representatives from each National Society of Anaesthesiologists in Europe, promoting education and safe anaesthesiology practice. In 2022, the […]

ESAIC and SESAM collaborate to run Simulation Instructors Training in Advanced Airway Management in Romania Crina Burlacu Member of the ESAIC Simulation Committee Creating a national simulation-based education and training (SBET) curriculum for training anaesthesiology residents is no small task. Very few countries in Europe have attempted to do so, and even fewer have implemented […]

Benedikt Preckel Chair of the ESAIC Patient Safety and Quality Committee Last year was busy yet fruitful for the Patient Safety and Quality Committee. Two main projects kept the committee members, as well as previous members who were co-opted for the different projects, busy: Safer Care to Save Lives – a complete training programme built […]

Gabriel M. Gurman, MD Chief Editor The first intensive care unit (ICU) appeared concomitantly on both continents, Europa and North America, at the end of the 6th decade of the last century. This was not a pure coincidence. The polio pandemic, which started in Scandinavia a couple of years earlier, obliged the medical administration all […]

Peter Kranke – Chair of the ESAIC Guidelines Committee Sylvia Daamen, Pierre Harlet and Sophie Debouche The ESAIC Guidelines Committee has established several task forces to elaborate guidelines on the related subject. The task forces are made up of anaesthesiologists nominated by the Taskforce chairs to include expertise from the necessary scientific fields. Others complement these […]

Marc Samama EJA Editor-in-Chief The EJA-EJAIC Editorial Team is the largest ESAIC committee, with eight Deputy-Editors-in-Chief, nine Associate Editors, six Deputy-Associate Editors, and four Language Scientific editors, two Methods, Statistics, and Epidemiology Editors, one Book and Media Reviews Editor, and an Editor-in-Chief (EIC). Our editors come from twelve different European countries. We also benefit from […]

Jan F.A. Hendrickx, Stefan De Hert, Andre M. De Wolf When preparing for a lecture, “Using automation and advanced medical technology to enhance patient safety” presented at the “International Forum on Patient Safety” at the 2021 ISQ EASAIC/ASA Annual meeting [1], the first inclination of the presenter (JHX) was to inundate the audience with the […]

Bazil Ateleanu Chair of the ESAIC Examinations Committee Dear Examination Committee and Subcommittees Members, Fellow Examiners, Invigilators, Hosts, Candidates and ESAIC Members, as a Chair of the Examinations Committee, I will try to summarise the events we encountered in 2022 and highlight our strategy for 2023. OLA 1877 candidates registered for the OLA 2022. Candidates […]