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Gabriel M. Gurman, MD Chief Editor gurman@bgu.ac.il This time I did not need to go searching in the literature, because what I do know, and write here, comes from tens of years spent in the operating room and near the critically ill patient. Not long ago I touched on this subject, but I have the […]

The cold truth about hypothermic therapy post-cardiac arrest. Dr Cheah Kean Seng Tallaght University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland dkscheah@gmail.com Long we have been taught that patients who have sustained an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest should be placed under hypothermic therapy in the hospital for a better outcome. This eventually became the backbone of post-cardiac arrest care for […]

Letter to editor Tzima Maria Trainee Anaesthesiologist martzi88@yahoo.gr Mendonça et al1 recently published their work on intra-operative esmolol administration in relation to pain treatment following mastectomy. In their work, as a primary outcome, they assess postoperative pain and as secondary, postoperative nausea and vomiting(PONV), blood pressure, heart rate, Bispectral Index(BIS), use of anaesthetics, analgesic medication […]

Chief editor note: we continue our tradition of inserting, here and in the next issues, some abstracts of paper to be presented at the next Euroanaesthesia, December 2021 Sean Coeckelenbergh, M.D.1, Alexandre Joosten, M.D. Ph.D.1,2 joosten-alexandre@hotmail.com Automatisation and robotics are all around us. Self-driving cars are a reality, aeroplane autopilot has been the norm for […]

Peter Biro peter.biro@usz.ch I have to confess that I am a person prone to nostalgic feelings, which certainly apply also for my professional life. However, those warm remembrances that come over me when thinking on the meanwhile rarely used succinylcholine, may have definitely a justifiable reason in some of the unique features of this drug. […]

Gabriel M. Gurman, MD Chief Editor I would dare to say that lately, I became an expert in this topic. Sixteen years since my retirement from my half-a-century of daily clinical and didactic activity I  have the certitude that during that over a long period I have accumulated a large experience regarding the life of […]

Petramay Attard Cortis Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, Mater Dei Hospital, Malta, Europe petramay.cortis@gov.mt The European Diploma in Obstetric Anaesthesia (EDOA) does not exist… but should it? What would it look like? What need would it address? And who is even looking for it? The European Society for Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care […]

With great sadness, we try to understand and come to terms with the sudden and unexpected death of our colleague and friend Torsten L. B. Lauritsen. Torsten was for many years a great and respected paediatric anaesthetic capacity in Denmark, Scandinavia, and Europe, professionally as well as a member and chairman of various committees and […]

Igor Abramovich, Bernardo Matias, Christopher Blacker, Elena Gjorchevska ESAIC Trainees Committee Chair, Past-chair and Trainee Representatives trainees-committee@esaic.org   The Covid pandemic has had a major impact on all different parts of our society. The effect on trainees is a huge burden. Trainee wellbeing suffered majorly and fatigue has become an ever-growing issue. In their free […]