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Gabriel M. Gurman, MD. Editor-in-chief gurman@bgu.ac.il I still remember those days during my medical studies, many years ago, when we used to spend half a day every week in the autopsy room of the department of pathology, to learn how to use this postmortem method of investigation to improve the quality of our clinical activity, […]

CRASH-3: What is the relevant outcome we are looking for? Marc Giménez-Milà Robert G. Hahn gimimarc@gmail.com CRASH-3 is a recent controlled clinical trial that deals with the potential benefit of tranexamic acid in isolated Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) (1). The topic is highly relevant and appropriate, especially after results of CRASH-2 and WOMEN where tranexamic […]

The chief editor note: As every year we publish some abstracts of lectures to be presented at the annual Euroanaesthesia November 28-30 2020, Barcelona. Kemal Tolga Saracoglu, MD saracoglukt@gmail.com Providing effective airway and oxygenation are among the main components of advanced life support. The points that determine the issue to be controversial are the absence […]

This new issue of our Newsletter is aired in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, a situation which is affecting all the world and is endangering and taking the lives of many citizens across the globe. Due to these circumstances all the medical teams, in each country and hospital, are busy day and night trying […]

Marc Gimenez gimimarc@gmail.com José Saramago and his exceptional novel “Blindness” move us to a crude catastrophic situation where dehumanised behaviours are endured to survive. In the magnificent story, the only character that preserves vision is the wife of a doctor serving as the narrator, guide and protector of the community. The fiction was seen as […]

Dear ESAIC Members, We, at the ESAIC Examinations Committee (ExC) certainly feel that most of our plans for the development of the EDAIC far exceeded our bravest expectations. This is my final report to you as the ESAIC Examinations Committee Chairman. I have worked in this committee since 2005 in different roles and witnessed the conversion […]

For immediate release Please see link below to paper published in the journal Anaesthesia The paper is published on behalf of the Italian Society of Anaesthesia, Analgesia, Resuscitation and Intensive Care, and the European Airway Management Society For any queries, please e-mail author Dr Massimiliano (Max) Sorbello, Consultant, Anesthesia and Intensive Care, AOU Policlinico San Marco […]

Europe and the World struggle as COVID-19 cases surge The COVID-19 pandemic has gathered pace in multiple European countries, the USA and Australia, and has taken root in almost all areas of the world. So far, only Africa has been spared a huge acceleration of cases, but many experts feel it is a matter of […]

Due to the ever-evolving and challenging situation, we are all currently facing because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the ESAIC is officially postponing Euroanaesthesia 2020 Barcelona, to 28-30 November 2020. Our community of anaesthesiologists and intensivists are still highly impacted by the virus and we realise how vital they are during this time. Being present in […]