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  SARS-CoV-2 continues to be among the most challenging global health crises for decades. Anaesthesiologists may have contact with COVID-19 patients in numerous settings, e.g. (emergency) surgery or critical care. Ways and mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 transmission are still under investigation, yet both direct droplet transmission, as well as indirect transmission via aerosols, seem to be […]

Gabriel M. Gurman, MD Chief editor gurman@bgu.ac.il   We are living an unusual and very demanding period. The numbers say everything. As per mid-September 2020, the number of patients with COVID-19 varied between 20,000 per million population in the USA and 5,500 in the UK, and the death rate was 600 per million people in […]

Dear Colleagues, dear Friends, The European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) is reaching out to you to announce that we are to carry out a training programme financed by the European Commission to provide training in Intensive Care across the EU. The training programme, COVID-19 Skills Preparation Course (C19 SPACE), is aimed at healthcare […]

The ESAIC is very happy to welcome aboard our newest Editor-in-Chief (EIC) for the European Journal of Anaesthesiology (EJA), Charles Marc Samama. His role officially started on 14 September 2020. Charles Marc Samama is currently Professor in the Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Perioperative Medicine,  AP-HP Centre–Université de Paris, Hôpital Cochin, Paris, France. He […]

The new paper reports the findings of two open-label, non-randomised phase 1/2 trials looking at a frozen formulation and a freeze-dried formulation of a two-part vaccine. The two-part vaccine included two adenovirus vectors – recombinant human adenovirus type 26 (rAd26-S) and recombinant human adenovirus type 5 (rAd5-S) In the phase 1 part of each trial, […]

Prof. Kai Zacharowski, MD PhD ML FRCA ESAIC President communication@esaic.org   We are proud to announce that, as of 1st October 2020, the European Society of Anaesthesiology (ESA) will officially become the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC). The ESAIC has a proven record of intensive care medicine as a part of our […]

Alexandru Rogobete MD, PhD, anaesthesia and intensive care trainee alexandru.rogobete@gmail.com   It all started as a dream; in the beginning somehow vague and blurred but as time went by more and more clear. I entered the ESAIC mentorship programme with a dream, the dream of developing a research network, the dream of learning and experiencing […]

Sanja Golubic, Natasha Lambevska, Slavica Boncanoska “City General Hospital 8th September”  Skopje, North Macedonia Sanja.golubic@gmail.com   In March our hospital was renamed as a COVID-19 hospital where all the COVID-19 positive or suspected patients who needed emergency surgery or some other interventions  (coronary catheterisation, angioplasty, dialysis)  were admitted. This includes also hospitalisation and treatment of […]

By Alex Rawlings ESAIC Patient safety and Simulation Project Manager alex@esaic.org   September 17, 2020, will be the second World Patient Safety Day. The theme for this day will be the safety of health workers and of patients under their care. The COVID-19 crisis that has been unfolding over the last six months has brought […]