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‘This accident should only happen once.’ How can lessons in aviation apply to healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic? ROMERO GARCIA, Carolina Soledad and Andrea Brandi carolinasoledad.md@gmail.com Twitter: @AnesthesiArt The virus that caused the COVID-19 disease has marked an inflecion point in the modern era, before and after coronavirus. It has been not only a health […]

The study also found mortality was driven by age, the severity of disease and the presence and extent of organ failure, rather than mainly due to underlying conditions New research reveals that the COVID-19 intensive care (ICU) mortality rate in Sweden was lower during the first wave of the pandemic than in many studies from […]

Prof Zoka Milan King’s College Hospital. London UK zoka.milan@kcl.ac.uk    The COVID-19 pandemic has had a huge impact on our lives, and this holds true for the ESAIC and Trainee Exchange Programme (TEP) Committee activities as well. Over the past 20 years, the TEP Committee has gone from strength to strength in terms of the […]

Olguta Lungu, Iasi, Romania lunguolguta@yahoo.com   In September 2020, the pandemic’s safe window allowed me to participate in the ESAIC Trainee Exchange Program and I am glad and thankful I did. I had the opportunity to live for three months in a beautiful and quiet city, Dresden, Germany and to work in Dresden’s University Hospital […]

Dr Andrey Varvinskiy ESAIC Examinations Committee Immediate Past Chair a_varvinski@hotmail.com   First of all, as I write this article at the beginning of January, I really hope that most of you had a chance to spend some good quality time with your families over the festive period. It is right I believe to mention that […]

Marcelino Murillo Deluque, Sebastian Amaya, Jose Jorge Maya Gomez, Valentina Monsalve, María Paula Pérez Mosquera marcelmoro04@gmail.com The SARS-CoV-2 virus is transmitted mainly by aerosols that can be produced when manipulating the airway of an infected patient, which translates to a greater risk of infection by direct contact to which the anaesthesiologist is exposed during surgery […]

Liliana Suárez Anaesthesiologist, Scientific Director, HYPNOS Sedaciones. Bogotá, Colombia. lilisuareza@gmail.com   Today’s society has never faced a situation like the current crisis: a pandemic due to SARS-CoV-2 (Coronavirus Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome 2) and its disease COVID-19; which has led to drastic changes in lifestyle regardless of academic, cultural, racial, religious, political or economic considerations. […]

Liana Valeanu, MD, DESA Deputy Editor ESAIC Newsletter liana.valeanu@yahoo.com   During my first year as a specialist in anaesthesia and intensive care, I was conducting a routine pre-anaesthetic check-up for a scheduled coronary artery bypass surgery. The patient, a male in his 60s, was a successful businessman whose genetic background and disorganised lifestyle had led […]

New research shows that a majority of European anaesthesiologists and intensive care specialists believe that precious intensive care (ICU) capacity should be shared between nations during international emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic, allowing countries with excess capacity to help those that are being overwhelmed at any particular moment. The study is published in the […]