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Gabriela Goncalves Gabrielasofia@hotmail.com Centro Hospitalar do Porto, Portugal As a native French speaker and having paediatric anaesthesia as one of my main areas of interest in the field of anaesthesiology, the option to perform the ESA Trainee Exchange Program (TEP) at the Hôpital Femme-Mère-Enfant (HFME), in Lyon, seemed an obvious choice. It combined the possibility […]

Adela Hilda Onutu Orthopaedic and Trauma Clinic, Emergency County Hospital, Cluj-Napoca, Romania adelaonutu@gmail.com The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic led to significant changes in our professional activity, by modifying our routine decisions regarding each patient. This becomes obvious when the hospital is dedicated to one single speciality, like orthopaedic surgery. Due to this specific profile, access to all […]

Bernardo Matias, Albert de Bettignies, Andrew Grech, Anne Blank, Christopher Blacker, Dora Karmelic, Elena Gjorchevska, Eva Klabusayova, Nadine van Veenendaal, Olivier Duranteau, Tamara Skrisovska ESAIC Trainees Committee Chair, Members and Trainee Representatives trainees-committee@esaic.org Since 2018 the ESAIC Trainees Committee has Trainee Representatives in additional ESAIC Committees and after a first trial period, that evaluated their […]

Dr Inês Valdoleiros Centro Hospitalar do Baixo Vouga, Aveiro, Portugal inesvaldoleiros@gmail.com   Having recently finished my training in anaesthesia in Portugal, after several years of dedicated study and hard work, I still felt like there was a lot to learn. That is one of the pivotal things about being a doctor – and anaesthesia, of […]

‘This accident should only happen once.’ How can lessons in aviation apply to healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic? ROMERO GARCIA, Carolina Soledad and Andrea Brandi carolinasoledad.md@gmail.com Twitter: @AnesthesiArt The virus that caused the COVID-19 disease has marked an inflecion point in the modern era, before and after coronavirus. It has been not only a health […]

The study also found mortality was driven by age, the severity of disease and the presence and extent of organ failure, rather than mainly due to underlying conditions New research reveals that the COVID-19 intensive care (ICU) mortality rate in Sweden was lower during the first wave of the pandemic than in many studies from […]

Prof Zoka Milan King’s College Hospital. London UK zoka.milan@kcl.ac.uk    The COVID-19 pandemic has had a huge impact on our lives, and this holds true for the ESAIC and Trainee Exchange Programme (TEP) Committee activities as well. Over the past 20 years, the TEP Committee has gone from strength to strength in terms of the […]

Olguta Lungu, Iasi, Romania lunguolguta@yahoo.com   In September 2020, the pandemic’s safe window allowed me to participate in the ESAIC Trainee Exchange Program and I am glad and thankful I did. I had the opportunity to live for three months in a beautiful and quiet city, Dresden, Germany and to work in Dresden’s University Hospital […]

Dr Andrey Varvinskiy ESAIC Examinations Committee Immediate Past Chair a_varvinski@hotmail.com   First of all, as I write this article at the beginning of January, I really hope that most of you had a chance to spend some good quality time with your families over the festive period. It is right I believe to mention that […]