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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 […]

Prof. Jean-Michel Constantin, Virginie Delplanque, Xavier Delplanque vfdelplanque@gmail.com The global health context requires international collaboration. There is an urge to team up more effectively to better treat patients during emergency procedures. Today, and worldwide, caregivers are suffering because of: The Covid crisis, that lasts… In some countries, situations of war and state of emergency Understaffed […]

Marc Van de Velde, Esther Pogatzki-Zahn, Anne -Claire Lukaszewicz, Dan Longrois, Tom G. Hansen, Patrice Forget, Michelle S. Chew, Nicolas Bruder, and Charles Marc Samama marc.samama@aphp.fr The European Journal of Anaesthesiology (EJA) has long been the main academic journal of the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC). It has been recognised for years […]

Ruth Shaylor, MD Ruth.shaylor@gmail.com To be featured in the Euroanaesthesia Milan Session 11P1 Airway management future: ingenious ideas! – on Saturday 4 June, 1630H, Room Amber 3 It has been impossible to avoid three-dimensional (3D) printing over the last two years whether it’s a 3D-printed ventilator, a 3D-printed mask, or even the 3D-printed ear protectors […]