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Christopher Blacker, Elena Gjorchevska, Alexandra Trinks, Sanja Golobic, Emelie Risberg ESAIC Trainee Committee Social Networks Task Force trainees-committee@esaic.org The ESAIC trainee network aims to establish a link between all European Anaesthesiology Trainees while putting a variety of ESAIC resources in their service. We are currently represented in various social network platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, […]

Daniel Arnal  Chair ESAIC Patient safety and Quality Committee darnal@sensar.org   The vision of the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC) and its Patient Safety and Quality Committee is to promote quality of care and patient safety through the strategic implementation of the Helsinki Declaration for Patient Safety in Anaesthesiology (HD) followed up […]

Cheah Kean Seng,MD Department of Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Tallaght University Hospital dkscheah@gmail.com Post-operative nausea and vomiting (PONV) is a common side effect after anaesthesia. It affects up to 30% of post-surgical patients, and 80% among the high risks group¹. PONV is not only common but deemed debilitating for the patient. It is the most […]

Alan Aitkenhead Alan.aitkenhead@notingham.ac.uk John Popovich, the first Executive Director of the original ESA (European Society of Anaesthesiologists), died suddenly early in the morning on 5 September 2021, aged 71 years. John was born and brought up in the USA but spent his whole working life in various European countries, becoming fluent in French, Dutch, Italian […]

Gabriel M. Gurman, MD Chief Editor Many years ago, during my residency in anaesthesia and critical care, a patient with a serious comorbidity could only very seldom become a candidate for elective surgery. The postoperative mortality rate was significantly higher in those cases in which a seriously chronically ill patient had to pass a surgical […]

The aim of PANDOS is to document perioperative opioid use and its safety in Europe and to describe its association with adverse events and persistent pain. This is a call for expression of interest for this one-week international, prospective, observational cohort study. Our goal is to include as many hospitals as possible in Europe. We […]

Chief editor note: We are pleased to host in this issue a paper from Colombia, which touches an important aspect of our life as physicians, namely financial independence. We encourage our readers and members to send us their comments and thoughts on this topic. Sebastian Amaya Universidad El Bosque Colombian School of Medicine, Anaesthesiology and […]

Chief editor note: We are pleased to host another paper from a very distinguished speaker at our next Euroanaesthesia 2021, this time about a topic of a special interest, due to the significant changes in the world climate. Dr Jane Muret Chief, Department of Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Institute Curie Paris, France jane.muret@curie.fr   […]

Dr Cheah Kean Seng Department of Anaesthesia & Intensive Care. Tallaght University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland. Email: dkscheah@gmail.com   Abstract The use of laryngeal mask airway (LMA) devices became common practice in anaesthesia since their first use in 1987. Newer generations of LMA from various manufacturers improvised the features for safety, ease of insertion and various […]