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In 2010 the European Board of Anaesthesiology/European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS)and the European Society of Anaesthesiology launched the Helsinki Declaration on Patient Safety in Anaesthesiology which provides a shared European opinion of what is worth doing and practical to improve patient safety in perioperative care. 2020 marks the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the […]

Gabriel  M. Gurman Chief editor gurman@bgu.ac.il In the last years, since I became ESAIC Newsletter chief editor, I have had more than one opportunity to refer to the fact that anaesthesiology is a medical domain which, for many reasons, does not resemble any other. We are special because of the many demands the profession has […]

Kyle Robinson President-Elect, Resident Component, American Society of Anesthesiologists robinsky@ohsu.edu We hope to provide a brief overview of the requirements to train or work as an anesthesiologist in the United States as a Foreign Medical Graduate (FMG). This is intended to be nothing more than friendly advice and a starting point for someone considering anesthesia […]

Sara Pedrosa saramcpedrosa@gmail.com My name is Sara Pedrosa and I’ve been an anaesthesiology consultant in Centro Hospitalar Baixo Vouga, Portugal, for two years. I was selected for the 2019 Trainee Exchange Programme in Cork University Hospital (CUH), Ireland, for a Regional Anaesthesia Fellowship. I spent three months learning from some of the best anaesthesiologists in […]

Kurt Ruetzler kurt.ruetzler@reflex.at When I saw the announcement for the first ESAIC mentorship program about 4 years ago, I just left Switzerland to join a large academic institution in the United States. As a person who wants to accomplish much in the future, it was a no-brainer for me that I will apply. But, of […]

Dr R Mellado Artigas MD, EDAIC, EDIC. Dr M Giménez-Milà MD, EDAIC, EDIC rmartigas@gmail.com Protective ventilation is a cornerstone in the management of patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in the ICU. In the last decade, we have seen physiological evidence showing that protective ventilation also confers benefit to patients in the operating room […]

Gabriel M. Gurman, MD Chief editor gurman@bgu.ac.il Once upon a time, when I started my residency in anaesthesia, one of the absolute contraindications for surgery was the very old patient. Nobody wanted to touch a very old patient with significant comorbidities, except in case of emergency. The postoperative morbidity and mortality were high enough to […]

Martina Klincova National Trainee Representative for the Czech Republic and chairwoman of the Czech Young Anaesthesiologists Section Klincova.Martina@fnbrno.cz A few months before the Euroanaesthesia Congress in Geneva in 2017, the chief of our Department, Assoc. Prof. Petr Stourac (who is also a member of ESAIC Council), addressed me to become the National Trainee Representative (NTR) […]