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Niño MC, Pauwels A, Raffan F, Arango E, López JP. Gigi87@yahoo.com   Introduction In Colombia, 500,000 COVID-19 cases and 15,800 deaths have been reported, among which health personnel cases and deaths amount to 5,619, and 43 respectively (1). Age is an independent risk factor for suffering from a severe disease, with the ages of 65 […]

Dear ESAIC Member,   We are pleased to inform you that we have recently launched the election procedure for the new ESAIC Council Members. Council Members are to be elected for the next term of office starting on 1 January 2021 in the following countries: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Estonia, North Macedonia and Serbia. Active Members are eligible […]

Manuel Otero-Lopez, Hôpital Avicenne, AP-HP, Bobigny, France Pablo Monedero, Clínica Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain motero@doctors.org.uk   The European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC) has decided to add explicitly “Intensive Care” to its name. The proposal to change the name of ESA to ESAIC, The European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, has […]

Chief editor’s note: With this paper, we intend to open a new rubric: The residents’ corner, hoping that our readers and members will gladly contribute to it and take this opportunity to share information on their work conditions, research activities and future plans. Alberto Barbieri1, Enrico Giuliani2, Gabriele Melegari3, Elisabetta Bertellini3 School of Anaesthesia and […]

Up to 206 Million People Reached and Over 5.4 Million Trained in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Worldwide Nadine Rott1, Andrew Lockey2, Bernd W. Böttiger1 bernd.boettiger@uk-koeln.de 1 Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne, Germany 2 Emergency Department, Calderdale Royal Hospital, Halifax, United Kingdom     “All citizens of the world can save a life: “CHECK— […]

  SARS-CoV-2 continues to be among the most challenging global health crises for decades. Anaesthesiologists may have contact with COVID-19 patients in numerous settings, e.g. (emergency) surgery or critical care. Ways and mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 transmission are still under investigation, yet both direct droplet transmission, as well as indirect transmission via aerosols, seem to be […]

Gabriel M. Gurman, MD Chief editor gurman@bgu.ac.il   We are living an unusual and very demanding period. The numbers say everything. As per mid-September 2020, the number of patients with COVID-19 varied between 20,000 per million population in the USA and 5,500 in the UK, and the death rate was 600 per million people in […]

Dear Colleagues, dear Friends, The European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) is reaching out to you to announce that we are to carry out a training programme financed by the European Commission to provide training in Intensive Care across the EU. The training programme, COVID-19 Skills Preparation Course (C19 SPACE), is aimed at healthcare […]

The ESAIC is very happy to welcome aboard our newest Editor-in-Chief (EIC) for the European Journal of Anaesthesiology (EJA), Charles Marc Samama. His role officially started on 14 September 2020. Charles Marc Samama is currently Professor in the Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Perioperative Medicine,  AP-HP Centre–Université de Paris, Hôpital Cochin, Paris, France. He […]