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After signing an MOU in 2019 at Euroanaesthesia Vienna, ESAIC and EACTAIC now further strengthen their professional relationship and cooperation by a formal signing of a Consensus Statement on Adult and Paediatric Fellowship Training in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anaesthesia and Intensive Care and a document on cooperation between both societies for the launch of an […]

Charles Marc Samama, MD Editor-in-Chief European Journal of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care As ESAIC members and readers of the EJA and EJAIC, you will notice many exciting changes in the coming months! Don’t forget that you receive the journals as part of your membership, which can be accessed by logging into MyESAIC on the ESAIC […]

Natalia Belii, MD After two years of COVID pandemics, and only 187 km from the Odessa frontline, the Moldavian Society of Anaesthesiologists (MSA) organized the 6th module of the course  (June 23-25, 2022) under the auspices of the European Committee for Education in Anaesthesiology (CEEA), this time with participants in the audience. Despite the restrictions […]

A note from the Chief Editor: We are pleased to initiate a new rubric, the Literary corner, in which we intend to publish short stories related to our profession and daily activity. The readers and ESAIC members are encouraged and invited to contribute to this new initiative. Andrei Schwartz, MD My patient, P.T., was a […]

Dr. Bazil Ateleanu MD, DEAA, FRCA, FESAIC Examinations Committee Chair ESAIC Board Member 2022 signalled the beginning of a long-awaited return to normality. Nevertheless, COVID is still among us, not only influencing healthcare models but also on political decisions, often impossible to predict. Faced with all of these restrictions and adversities, the Examinations Committee, respecting […]

Gabriel M. Gurman, MD – Chief editor Ioana Grigoras, MD The last century witnessed a dramatic change in the anaesthesia field: from an activity covered by nonmedical personnel, anaesthesiology became a medical speciality, practised by physicians worldwide. The anaesthesiologist became a clinician, and his/her expertise included – among others – vast knowledge regarding those diseases […]

HQ@nyssa-pga.org We are excited to host the 76th PostGraduate Assembly in Anesthesiology — live and in person — at the newly renovated New York Marriott Marquis. PGA76 will feature 150+ didactic, interactive, and hands-on sessions. Don’t miss Engaging with the Experts, where you can interact with faculty in real time to solve difficult clinical issues. […]

Result of an interdisciplinary study supported by European Scientific Societies Prof. Jean-Michel Constantin, Virginie Delplanque, Xavier Delplanque A collective supported by ESAIC and in partnership with two French scientific societies, the Société Française d’Anesthésie-Réanimation (SFAR) and the French Society of Emergency Medicine (SFMU), has just published an independent and international study report. This international study […]

Diogo Mendes Morais, Igor Abramovich ESAIC Trainee Representative, Trainees Committee Chair During June 4-6. the Euroanaesthesia congress was held in Milan, Italy. Finally, after 3 years since the last congress, Vienna 2019, the trainees were once more reunited in person. This year, the trainees’ scientific programme included three sessions. The first one, “How to succeed […]