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New Orleans is famed for its haunted cemeteries, Creole cuisine, and hypnotic jazz music. But in October of 2022, in addition to beignets and Bourbon Street, New Orleans will be home to the world’s leading annual anesthesiology meeting, ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2022. A truly unique American city, New Orleans is a perfect fit for this global event […]

Marc Lazarovici – SESAM President                           marc.lazarovici@med.uni-muenchen.de Doris Ostergaard – ESAIC Simulation Committee Chair      Doris.OEstergaard@regionh.dk The ESAIC Simulation Committee The ESAIC Simulation Committee has the ambition to promote simulation as an educational methodology for improving clinical practice. This includes developing non-technical skills and the social and cognitive standards for trainees and board-certified anaesthesiologists at the […]

Marcelino Murillo MD, Ricardo Salamanca Parra (Medical Student), Sebastian Amaya MD, María José Andrade (Medical Student), Maria Alejandra Zuñiga (Medical Student), Laura Aponte Camacho (Medical Student), María Isabel Daza Morelli (Medical Student) rsalamancap@unbosque.edu.co As science is a subject to constant change, medical research plays an important role in technological, social, diagnostic and therapeutic advances (1). […]

Cheah Kean Seng (MBBS, FCAI), David Chiang (MBBS, MMed Anaes) dkscheach@gmail.com Case description: We encountered an interesting case of a 52 year-old lady with underlying ‘Stiff Person Syndrome’ (SPS) scheduled for day-care upper gastrointestinal scope and colonoscopy. She was diagnosed with SPS in 2018 with Hashimoto Thyroiditis and chronic headache. She is taking Baclofen, Myonal, […]

Antonia Kustura, Dilara Akcal Trainees Committee Education Taskforce Trainees-committee@esaic.org Almost every study puts anaesthesiologists in the top five specialities with the highest prevalence of burnout syndrome. A combination of demanding patient responsibilities and long working hours with sleep deprivation can be quite strenuous. It’s clear why specialities with fewer shifts and emergency work are associated […]

Gabriel M. Gurman, MD Chief Editor Gurman@bgu.ac.il The COVID-19 pandemic has brought sorrow, pain and desperation to many families, all over the world, and our continent has not been spared. Up to now, almost 2 million died from the disease just in Europe, and more than 6 million all over the world. This catastrophe brought […]

During Euroanaesthesia 2022 held in Milan this year, the Council members voted for the incoming president of the society. Prof. Wolfgang Buhre (Maastricht University Medical Centre, The Netherlands) was voted as President-Elect and will assume his role as from 1 January 2023. We spoke with Prof. Buhre on his interests, his life at ESAIC and […]

We would like to extend our most sincere gratitude to all our attendees who were able to join us in Euroanaesthesia 2022. It was a real joy to be able to meet again and, after the last 2 years’ experience, we succeeded to come out stronger as a community. This year’s Euroanaesthesia proved to be […]

There were many different things competing for news during our congress this year, including of course the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, Queen Elizabeth’s 70th Jubilee celebrations in the UK, and the annual meetings of both the American Diabetes Association and the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Despite this, Euroanaesthesia was covered in major outlets, with […]