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Friday December 17, 11:00 – 11:45 : Channel 2 The first-ever Prof Andreas Hoeft Research lecture will this year be given by Professor Jennifer Hunter of the University of Liverpool. She will start with a quote from German Poet Johann Wolfgang van Goethe: “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough, we […]

It was decided that the operation, one of the first in the world, was his best chance of survival “It is through pushing boundaries like these that discoveries – and medical advances – are made,” says his doctor In the first of our abstract watch articles this year, Doctors in Brazil describe a heart transplant […]

Friday December 17, 16:30 – 17:15   –  Channel 2 This review of important papers in general anaesthesiology will be given by Professor Anthony Absalom, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen University, Netherlands. He says: “We look back wistfully on another tumultuous year during which anesthesiologists around the world have been at the forefront caring for […]

Friday December 17, 17:45 – 18:45 – Channel 8 This three-part session reflecting on the COVID-19 pandemic to date will be opened by Dr Kariem El-Boghdadly, Consultant Anaesthetist at Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK, who will discuss the timing of surgery after SARS-CoV-2 infection. He will explain how surgery with active […]

Over 1kg of plastic waste is generated per anaesthesia procedure, an audit of surgical patients in a burns unit in Spain presented at this year’s Euroanaesthesia has revealed. Plastic wrappers are the most common item of waste. It is estimated that hospitals contribute up to 1% of solid waste in developed countries, with 21-30% of […]

Tzima Maria,MD,MSc,PhD(c) Hippokrateion General Hospital of Thessaloniki, Greece martzi88@yahoo.gr Albert Einstein had once said, ‘a person who never made a mistake never tried anything new’. Last year marks the 10th anniversary of the Helsinki Declaration on patient safety in Anaesthesiology and September 17th is established as World Patient Safety Day. Nowadays, there is a great […]

Dr Magdalena Fleming and Dr Carolina Soledad are taking part in the ESAIC Mentorship Programme 2020 – 2022 and earlier this year started the Mentee Club, and they continue to coordinate it. All Mentees currently participating in the Mentorship Programme have been invited to participate. The Mentee Club is run independently of the Mentorship Programme, […]

Cheah Kean Seng,MD Department of Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Tallaght University Hospital dkscheah@gmail.com High flow nasal oxygen therapy (HFNO2) is gaining popularity of late and rapidly recognised as new oxygen therapy in the treatment of respiratory failure, and the fame exploded exponentially after the COVID-19 pandemic. HFNO2 was initially invented for neonates to provide continuous […]

Gabriel M. Gurman, MD Chief Editor The question as to why this topic shows up once again in our Newsletter after the splendid editorial written by our co-editor, Dr Liana Valeanu (Gender gap-the discussion is here to stay, ESAIC Newsletter, February 2021) should be asked. The answer is a double one. First, because although that […]