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Dr Ianis Siriopol ianis.siriopol@gmail.com   My name is Ianis Siriopol and I have just finished the Anesthesia and Intensive Care Training Program of „Grigore T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy Iasi, Romania.  During these five years, I practised in several Anesthesia and Intensive Care Departments in University Hospitals in different surgical fields. From 2020, […]

Chief editor note: We continue to publish scientific information related to the current Coronavirus pandemics, keeping our readers updated with the latest news on this topic. Paweł Piwowarczyk1, Michał Borys1 The Second Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Therapy, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland piwowarczyk.pawel@gmail.com Recently, some authors have suggested that Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination […]

Marcelo Gama de Abreu1 and Paolo Pelosi2, on behalf of the Board of Directors of the ESAIC ppelosi@hotmail.com 1 ESAIC Board Member; 2 Past ESAIC President   Dear colleagues, Dear caregivers working in the operating room, emergency room, intensive care unit and anaesthesia ambulatory services, We are witnessing the rapid spreading of the SARS-CoV-2 virus […]

From the deputy editor: With this article, we open up a new rubric for all members of our Society who are thirsty for new and exciting research published in the European Journal of Anaesthesiology. It is another good example of collaborative work between different groups of ESAIC with the sole objective of helping the clinicians […]

Gabriel M. Gurman, MD. Editor-in-chief gurman@bgu.ac.il I still remember those days during my medical studies, many years ago, when we used to spend half a day every week in the autopsy room of the department of pathology, to learn how to use this postmortem method of investigation to improve the quality of our clinical activity, […]

CRASH-3: What is the relevant outcome we are looking for? Marc Giménez-Milà Robert G. Hahn gimimarc@gmail.com CRASH-3 is a recent controlled clinical trial that deals with the potential benefit of tranexamic acid in isolated Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) (1). The topic is highly relevant and appropriate, especially after results of CRASH-2 and WOMEN where tranexamic […]

The chief editor note: As every year we publish some abstracts of lectures to be presented at the annual Euroanaesthesia November 28-30 2020, Barcelona. Kemal Tolga Saracoglu, MD saracoglukt@gmail.com Providing effective airway and oxygenation are among the main components of advanced life support. The points that determine the issue to be controversial are the absence […]

This new issue of our Newsletter is aired in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, a situation which is affecting all the world and is endangering and taking the lives of many citizens across the globe. Due to these circumstances all the medical teams, in each country and hospital, are busy day and night trying […]

Marc Gimenez gimimarc@gmail.com José Saramago and his exceptional novel “Blindness” move us to a crude catastrophic situation where dehumanised behaviours are endured to survive. In the magnificent story, the only character that preserves vision is the wife of a doctor serving as the narrator, guide and protector of the community. The fiction was seen as […]