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Embargo: 2301H UK time Thursday 19 December New research suggests surgery patients overwhelmingly prefer pre-surgical safety checklists to be completed in front of them, contrary to what is thought by doctors. The study, published online first in the European Journal of Anaesthesiology (the journal of the European Society of Anaesthesiology [ESAIC]), is by Dr Sabine Nabecker, Department […]

Manfred Greher, MD, MBA manfred.greher@kh-herzjesu.at The time it takes to double medical knowledge is decreasing dramatically: In 1950 it was 50 years, in the 1980s seven years, and in 2020 it will be only 73 days. According to the perspective of the Kontratieff wave concept which is predicting global economy and growth engines over the […]

Johannes Wacker, Mirka Cikkelova, Sven Staender jwac@gmx.net Let’s compare the idea of the Patient Safety Expert Meeting (PSEM) during Euroanaesthesia to a “Patient Safety Barometer”: The shared knowledge and experiences of these experts are used like barometer readings to consider the question: What are the most important and the most urgent current issues in perioperative […]

Başak C. Meco,MD and Jean-Jacques Lehot, MD basakceyda@hotmail.com The European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC), a strong and unifying platform in Europe for our specialty, is a perfect example for endorsing international collaborations in many ways and areas. Among many goals that it achieves, a major impact that ESAIC has is that it […]

Reino Pöyhiä, MD Reino.poyhia@kauniala.fi Understanding of complexities of diseases, a holistic approach to the care of a patient, acute and chronic pain management, alleviation of other symptoms, expertise in sedation, communication skills and do not resuscitate (DNAR) decision making. These all are important features of both anaesthesiology and palliative medicine. If you add titrating the […]

Teodora Orhideea  Nicolescu, MD, MBA/HCM As I am writing this, we have just wrapped up successfully our first American and European Societies webinar “Non-Operative Room Anaesthesia – new challenges as our scope of practice changes.” This webinar was made possible by a grant from Medtronic and featured 6 speakers, 3 from the European Society of […]

Chief editor note: As in previous issues, and already as a tradition, we are publishing some scientific reports coming from the last annual Euroanaesthesia (Vienna 2019) and from the incoming Focus Meeting (Rome, October 2019) Fernando Gilsanz Fernando.gilsanz@salud.madrid.org In the history of anaesthesia there are reports of at least 108 self-experiments, where the primary or […]

In 2010 the European Board of Anaesthesiology/European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS)and the European Society of Anaesthesiology launched the Helsinki Declaration on Patient Safety in Anaesthesiology which provides a shared European opinion of what is worth doing and practical to improve patient safety in perioperative care. 2020 marks the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the […]

Gabriel  M. Gurman Chief editor gurman@bgu.ac.il In the last years, since I became ESAIC Newsletter chief editor, I have had more than one opportunity to refer to the fact that anaesthesiology is a medical domain which, for many reasons, does not resemble any other. We are special because of the many demands the profession has […]