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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 […]

Kurt Ruetzler kurt.ruetzler@reflex.at When I saw the announcement for the first ESAIC mentorship program about 4 years ago, I just left Switzerland to join a large academic institution in the United States. As a person who wants to accomplish much in the future, it was a no-brainer for me that I will apply. But, of […]

Dr R Mellado Artigas MD, EDAIC, EDIC. Dr M Giménez-Milà MD, EDAIC, EDIC rmartigas@gmail.com Protective ventilation is a cornerstone in the management of patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in the ICU. In the last decade, we have seen physiological evidence showing that protective ventilation also confers benefit to patients in the operating room […]

Gabriel M. Gurman, MD Chief editor gurman@bgu.ac.il Once upon a time, when I started my residency in anaesthesia, one of the absolute contraindications for surgery was the very old patient. Nobody wanted to touch a very old patient with significant comorbidities, except in case of emergency. The postoperative morbidity and mortality were high enough to […]

Martina Klincova National Trainee Representative for the Czech Republic and chairwoman of the Czech Young Anaesthesiologists Section Klincova.Martina@fnbrno.cz A few months before the Euroanaesthesia Congress in Geneva in 2017, the chief of our Department, Assoc. Prof. Petr Stourac (who is also a member of ESAIC Council), addressed me to become the National Trainee Representative (NTR) […]

A single hour of general anaesthesia in early infancy—longer than is necessary to perform the most common types of minor surgeries in childhood—does not result in measurable neurodevelopmental or behavioural problems up to the age of 5 years, according to the first randomised trial of its kind involving 722 infants in seven countries, published in […]