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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 […]

Kyle Robinson President-Elect, Resident Component, American Society of Anesthesiologists robinsky@ohsu.edu We hope to provide a brief overview of the requirements to train or work as an anesthesiologist in the United States as a Foreign Medical Graduate (FMG). This is intended to be nothing more than friendly advice and a starting point for someone considering anesthesia […]

Sara Pedrosa saramcpedrosa@gmail.com My name is Sara Pedrosa and I’ve been an anaesthesiology consultant in Centro Hospitalar Baixo Vouga, Portugal, for two years. I was selected for the 2019 Trainee Exchange Programme in Cork University Hospital (CUH), Ireland, for a Regional Anaesthesia Fellowship. I spent three months learning from some of the best anaesthesiologists in […]