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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 […]

D. Berrin Gunaydin Regardless of underlying aetiology, massive haemorrhage is a significant cause of maternal mortality and morbidity worldwide. According to health statistics, the maternal mortality rate (MMR) in Turkey is 13.1 in 100,000 live births (https://sbsgm.saglik.gov.tr/Eklenti/44131). Hopefully, evidence-based management to improve patient care could play an important role in decreasing MMR. However, massively bleeding […]

Leila Niemi-Murola, Valentina Almeida Accreditation of Training in Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, formerly the Hospital Visiting and Training Accreditation Programme (HVTAP), has offered a teaching accreditation under the European Training Requirements on a voluntary basis to the academic departments of Anaesthesia and Intensive care Medicine. Since 1989, the ATAIC has performed over 100 international audits. […]