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Chief Editor’s note: We are pleased to host in this issue a short report from the Patient Safety and Quality Committee. We would like to encourage other ESAIC committees to contribute to our Newsletter by sending material related to their activity. Alex Rawlings (on behalf of the ESAIC Patient Safety and Quality Committee) patient.safety@esaic.org In […]

Marcelo Sperandio Ramos marcelosperandioramos@yahoo.com Clinical corner – The quest for smooth extubation! – I banned air from the ETT cuff for good… It is known for a fact that tracheal extubation is associated with a significant risk of complications, – The Difficult Airway Society (DAS) developed a guideline for the management of tracheal extubation in […]

Gabriel M. Gurman, MD Chief Editor I have no doubt that recently our readers noticed an important change in the Newsletter functionality. Since the beginning of this year, everyone can insert his/her comment on any of the monthly issued papers. The editorial board took this decision with the aim of improving the bilateral link to […]

Jennifer Rose ESAIC Communication Manager communication@esaic.org ENGAGING MINDS, EMPOWERING CHANGE The ESAIC is excited to officially announce the Euroanaesthesia 2021 hybrid event! Despite the ongoing challenges our community and field continue to face while leading the charge against COVID-19, our Scientific Committee has built an extensive and excellent scientific programme conceived by and for the […]

Dr Bibiana Metelmann bibiana.metelmann@uni-greifswald.de Department of Anaesthesiology at University Medicine Greifswald Greifswald, Germany Host Centre: Gottsegen Hungarian Institute of Cardiology “Édes napok Budapest” – sweet days Budapest “Édes napok Budapest” is the name of a 3-day food festival focusing on chocolate and sweets and taking place in the centre of Budapest right in front of […]

Dr Anil Gupta anil.gupta@sll.se Epidemiology of Post dural puncture headache (PDPH) In the European Union, including 28 countries, the number of live births has remained fairly constant, between 5.2 – 5.4 million each year, 2010-2012 (1). Of these, approximately 20-30% of all babies are born by caesarean delivery where spinal or general anaesthesia is the […]

Christopher Blacker Christopher.blacker@gmail.com Trainee representative ESAIC Newsletter editorial team Dear Trainee! The ESAIC Newsletter editorial team is expanding and wants to create a “Resident Corner“ in the Newsletter section. The editorial team is therefore looking for 4-8 trainees throughout Europe to be part of this team and become regular contributors to this “Resident Corner.” More […]

Marc Giménez Milà MD, PhD, EDAIC, EDIC Department of Anesthesiology. Hospital CLINIC de Barcelona. Spain gimimarc@gmail.com No one can doubt that society, the medical profession and individual patients and their families all over Europe have experienced profound changes to accommodate the arrival of this new disease. We will probably take years to realise the real […]

Gabriel M. Gurman, MD Chief editor gurman@bgu.ac.il I am writing this without having any precise data about the percentage of the healthcare workers who have been already vaccinated against COVID- 19, neither in Israel nor anywhere in the world. I can imagine that a high percentage of all those whose professional activity implies getting in […]