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Saturday 28 November, 1500-1600H, Channel 8 This three-part panel discussion will begin with a talk on the history of intensive care medicine by ESAIC’s President Professor Kai Zacharowski, Director of the Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine & Pain Therapy, University Hospital Frankfurt, Germany. He will take us back in time to the very beginnings […]

Saturday 28 November, 1500-1545H, Channel 6 In this refresher course session on Saturday afternoon, Professor Michel Struys (University Medical Centre Groningen, Netherlands) will review drugs for anaesthesia that are in the later stages of clinical development (phase 2 or 3 trials), as well as some molecules that are earlier in the process, and some where […]

Saturday 28 November, 0930-1015H, Channel 1 This year’s Sir Robert Macintosh Lecture will be delivered by our former President Daniela Filipescu, Professor of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, University of Medicine ‘Carol Davila’, and Emergency Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases “Prof. Dr C.C. Iliescu”, Bucharest, Romania. “The year 2020 marks several important milestones: the 10th Anniversary […]

Vygon is pleased to announce the future range of NRFit® Epidural anesthesia that will be available shortly. Want to know more? We will answer your main questions below What is NRFit®? A good question to begin with. Back to basics, NRFit® is the secure connection for neuraxial application. In other words, the ISO 80369 series […]

Saturday 28 November, 1500-1545H, Channel 2 In this session, Professor Christian Putensen, University Hospital Bonn, Germany, will review some important papers across various areas of intensive care medicine, including COVID-19, ARDS,  sepsis, vasopressor therapy, acute kidney injury, nutrition and vitamins, and sedation and delirium. Some of his selections are outlined below – to hear about […]

During surgery, there is a potential risk of being exposed to a prolonged apnoea followed by an arterial haemoglobin desaturation. Obese, neonatal, paediatric, pregnant, septic, and critically ill patients are at a higher risk of showing a reduced oxygen reserve. When apnoea occurs, the oxygen extraction from the alveoli to the arterial blood flow develops […]

An announcement from the ESAIC Board of Directors and Staff It is with the greatest sadness that we must inform you that, on November 24, 2020, our much-respected colleague Prof. Dr Andreas Hoeft has passed away after a short illness, aged 66 years. We offer our sincerest and heartfelt condolences to Andreas’ family and friends. […]

2020 has penned out to be a year that is unmatched for a lot of us. Confronted with a pandemic that stressed out our speciality to the maximum we proved again how invaluable our expertise as anesthesiologists is. It has also changed our approach on how we enhance our knowledge base as we had to […]

Webcast still available until December 31st, 2020 Alex Rawlings – alex@esaic.org Patient Safety and Simulation Project Manager   On World Patient Safety Day, 17th September 2020, The European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, along with the American Society of Anesthesiologists, the Anaesthesia Patient Safety Foundation, and World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists, presented an […]