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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 […]

Alex Rawlings – ESAIC Patient Safety and Simulation Project Manager alex.rawlings@esaic.org 2022 World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit April 29 @ 8:00 am – April 30 @ 5:00 pm PDT Since 2017, ESAIC has co-convened the Patient Safety Movement Foundation’s annual summit. This relationship has been important in talking the ESAIC’s message on Patient […]

Igor Abramovich, Albert de Bettignies, Nadine van Veenendaal, Alexandra Trinks, Diogo Mendes Morais, Georgios Karras, Iulia Crisan, Žilvinas Jucius trainees-committee@esaic.org Following up on our article from last April we would like to present the new Trainee Committee in place since January 2022. The ESAIC Trainee Committee (ESAICTC) continues the mission to establish a network between […]

Jyoti Gupta, MD jyoti.yogesh.gupta@gmail.com INTRODUCTION As per the IASP definition, pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with or resembling that associated with actual or potential tissue damage.1 Modern-day anaesthesia, with its focus on fast-track techniques and enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS), demands equally good perioperative analgesia with minimum possible side effects. There […]

Chief Editor notes: We are pleased to publish in this issue summaries of two very interesting lectures to be presented during Euroanaesthesia 2022, and thank those speakers who answered our invitation to send their papers to the ESAIC Newsletter. Tamara Skrisovska Tamara.skri@seznam.cz Despite its huge potential to improve healthcare and affect patient outcomes, patient blood […]

Carolyn Weiniger, Ruth Shaylor ruth@shaylor.co.uk See one do one teach one is the way many of us today learned anaesthesia techniques. But this era has passed. Didactic lectures are important, enabling information to be succinctly presented and given to a largely receptive audience. Appealing and useful audiovisuals can enhance these lectures, enabling participants to take […]

Joana Berger Estilita & Marko Zdravkovic markozdravcovic@gmail.com Over the last 10 years, much data concerning gender equity in anaesthesia and intensive care have been published (1,2). Mostly, these data show numerical differences between men and women in leadership positions and in research. This is usually measured as the number of women authors, the number of […]

Byron Rosero-Britton, Sebastian Amaya, Gabrielle Amaya, María José Andrade sebass13@live.com Technological advancements in the 21st century have allowed for a significant evolution in medicine. However, certain devices may be overlooked in specific settings, as is the case for smart devices in diabetic surgical patients. Smart devices have proven to have promising potential within medicine, as […]

Gabriel M. Gurman, MD Chief Editor The idea to approach the subject of the old patient and our professional attitude toward advanced age came to me after I read a paper recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine (1) by authors Bertagnolli from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston and Singh from the US […]