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Hands-on interactive sessions have been a key part of Euroanaesthesia for several years now. This year, a new set of interactive sessions is being introduced – ‘Serious Games’ – which are a combination of problem-based learning discussions and an escape room. They use short fun-focused games to teach clinical information and develop management skills in a […]

  Prof Ibsen Lecture – from pandemic to ESAIC Today, Saturday 4 June, 1000-1030H, Silver Room In January this year, Prof Kai Zacharwoski finished his term as ESAIC President, having been at the helm during some of the society’s most challenging years as our members and the organisation itself battled and adjusted to pandemic life. […]

Today Saturday, June 4, 0930H-1000H AM, Silver Room This year’s Sir Robert Macintosh Lecture will be given by Kate Prior, who is Surgeon Captain in the British Royal Navy and also a Consultant in Anaesthetics and Major Trauma, at King’s College Hospital, London, UK. She will deliver her perspectives on serving as an anaesthesiologist in […]

In January of this year, Prof Edoardo De Robertis, Director of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care at the University of Perugia, Italy, became the President of ESAIC, taking over from Professor Kai Zacharowski. On behalf of the entire Executive Committee and ESAIC staff, he is wishing the warmest of welcomes to all our delegates, both those […]

ESAIC is pleased to announce that Prof. Dr Michel MRF Struys has been appointed by the Board of Directors to serve as Scientific Committee Chair for the period 1 January 2024 to 31 December 2026. As of 1st July 2022, he will start in the position of Chair-Elect and he will join Prof. Dr Idit […]

Georgios Karras Trainee Representative trainees-committee@esaic.org The Hellenic Anaesthesiology Trainees Society (H.A.T.S.) has been proudly part of the ESAIC Trainee Network since 2017. Despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we aimed to establish an official connection with our European colleagues and within our National Society. These goals were also presented at the Euroanaesthesia 2020 Virtual Congress. During […]

Gabriel M. Gurman, MD Chief Editor gurman@bgu.ac.il The Ukrainian tragedy of the last weeks, the increasing number of soldiers and civilians wounded or killed, the destruction of thousands of houses, schools, hospitals and any other normal facilities of human existence brought to my memory scenes from those wars in which I took part as a […]

Dr Cheah Kean Seng MBBS, FCAI dkscheah@gmail.com Wallace Wattles, an American author once said, ‘It is essential to have good tools, but it is also essential that the tools should be used in the right way’. This quote couldn’t be more legitimate in describing our use of capnography in practice. The use of capnography is […]

Gabriela Sousa gscsousa@gmail.com Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de São João, Porto, Portugal My name is Gabriela Sousa and I work in a tertiary hospital in Oporto, Portugal, as an anaesthesiologist, since 2017. A couple of years ago I felt the need to challenge myself, get out of my comfort zone and improve my expertise in […]