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During surgery, there is a potential risk of being exposed to a prolonged apnoea followed by an arterial haemoglobin desaturation. Obese, neonatal, paediatric, pregnant, septic, and critically ill patients are at a higher risk of showing a reduced oxygen reserve. When apnoea occurs, the oxygen extraction from the alveoli to the arterial blood flow develops […]

An announcement from the ESAIC Board of Directors and Staff It is with the greatest sadness that we must inform you that, on November 24, 2020, our much-respected colleague Prof. Dr Andreas Hoeft has passed away after a short illness, aged 66 years. We offer our sincerest and heartfelt condolences to Andreas’ family and friends. […]

2020 has penned out to be a year that is unmatched for a lot of us. Confronted with a pandemic that stressed out our speciality to the maximum we proved again how invaluable our expertise as anesthesiologists is. It has also changed our approach on how we enhance our knowledge base as we had to […]

Webcast still available until December 31st, 2020 Alex Rawlings – alex@esaic.org Patient Safety and Simulation Project Manager   On World Patient Safety Day, 17th September 2020, The European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, along with the American Society of Anesthesiologists, the Anaesthesia Patient Safety Foundation, and World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists, presented an […]

The BJA-ESAIC Grant Steering Committee is happy to announce the first winner of the ESAIC-BJA Grant 2020. This Grant was born from the collaboration between ESAIC and the British Journal of Anaesthesia willing to enhance clinical practice in the field of anaesthesia, offering the unique possibility to win a 100 000 euros grant for research. […]

Facts and reflections regarding the public and private health system Public Health System Maria Carmona, MD – maria.carmona@fm.usp.br   Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world, and it has more than 211 million inhabitants, and about 20% of them living in the state of São Paulo, the venue of the first and majority of […]

Eva Klabusayová – eva.klabusayova@gmail.com ESAIC Trainees Committee Euroanaesthesia Task Force Coordinator ESAIC Scientific Committee Trainee Representative   In recent years the Euroanaesthesia congress was always the highlight of Trainee Network activities. Every year hundreds of trainees from all across Europe met, not only to gain and deepen their knowledge in our common area of interest of […]

Dr Fethi and Dr Rakic – dragana.rakic@hotmail.com Clinic of anaesthesia, intensive therapy and pain therapy, Clinical center of Voivodina, Serbia   Our profession is very challenging because we need to improve ourselves every day, to extend our experience and knowledge. And I think if we have an opportunity to see different techniques or improve our […]

Marcelino Murillo Deluque – marcelmoro04@gmail.com Sebastian Amaya, Nashla Fayad Fayad Natalia González Zárate, Gabriela Rosero     The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has changed priorities for the general population and has been a challenge for healthcare professionals as well. The situation has placed a burden of stress, trauma and panic on health professionals as the fear of […]