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2020 has penned out to be a year that is unmatched for a lot of us. Confronted with a pandemic that stressed out our speciality to the maximum we proved again how invaluable our expertise as anesthesiologists is. It has also changed our approach on how we enhance our knowledge base as we had to expand our zoom exposure and skills in order to attend lectures, webinar or other web-based products. As part of this enhanced product aspect, I would like to introduce you to our webinar titled: “Adult...

Webcast still available until December 31st, 2020 Alex Rawlings – alex@esaic.org Patient Safety and Simulation Project Manager   On World Patient Safety Day, 17th September 2020, The European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, along with the American Society of Anesthesiologists, the Anaesthesia Patient Safety Foundation, and World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists, presented an online version of the annual International Forum of Perioperative Safety and Qualit...

The BJA-ESAIC Grant Steering Committee is happy to announce the first winner of the ESAIC-BJA Grant 2020. This Grant was born from the collaboration between ESAIC and the British Journal of Anaesthesia willing to enhance clinical practice in the field of anaesthesia, offering the unique possibility to win a 100 000 euros grant for research. Dr Emanuel van den Broeke, Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Brussels Belgium is the winner of the 100 000€ grant. He will develop his project calle...

Facts and reflections regarding the public and private health system Public Health System Maria Carmona, MD – maria.carmona@fm.usp.br   Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world, and it has more than 211 million inhabitants, and about 20% of them living in the state of São Paulo, the venue of the first and majority of SARS-CoV-2 cases in the country. The second country in the world in the number of cases, Brazil is the 13th country in COVID-19 lethality, considering the numb...

Eva Klabusayová – eva.klabusayova@gmail.com ESAIC Trainees Committee Euroanaesthesia Task Force Coordinator ESAIC Scientific Committee Trainee Representative   In recent years the Euroanaesthesia congress was always the highlight of Trainee Network activities. Every year hundreds of trainees from all across Europe met, not only to gain and deepen their knowledge in our common area of interest of anaesthesiology and intensive care but also to meet together. Annually we shared our per...

Dr Fethi and Dr Rakic – dragana.rakic@hotmail.com Clinic of anaesthesia, intensive therapy and pain therapy, Clinical center of Voivodina, Serbia   Our profession is very challenging because we need to improve ourselves every day, to extend our experience and knowledge. And I think if we have an opportunity to see different techniques or improve our skills, we should not hesitate. The ESA Trainee Exchange Program offers all this and more and that was the reason for me to apply. I have...

Marcelino Murillo Deluque – marcelmoro04@gmail.com Sebastian Amaya, Nashla Fayad Fayad Natalia González Zárate, Gabriela Rosero     The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has changed priorities for the general population and has been a challenge for healthcare professionals as well. The situation has placed a burden of stress, trauma and panic on health professionals as the fear of acquiring the disease, transmitting it to their loved ones and dying as a result of the infection grows day by d...

Gabriel M. Gurman, MD Editor in Chief   Since I started practising anaesthesia, many years ago, I learned and was taught that a patient with obesity represented a real problem for the anaesthesiologist. I cannot forget my apprenticeship years, when I got into the habit of observing people on the street, wishing to myself that people with obesity would not become, one day, my patients, because of the complications their cases often bring One of my distinguished mentors used to remind us that...

To improve the care of patients with acute or chronic pain, a consortium from academia, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), pain societies, patient organisations and the pharmaceutical industry has launched the research project “IMI-Pain Care – Improving the care of patients suffering from acute or chronic pain”. IMI-PainCare is set within the framework of the Innovative Medicine Initiative (IMI), the largest public-private partnership for health research worldwide. A consortium of...

Niño MC, Pauwels A, Raffan F, Arango E, López JP. Gigi87@yahoo.com   Introduction In Colombia, 500,000 COVID-19 cases and 15,800 deaths have been reported, among which health personnel cases and deaths amount to 5,619, and 43 respectively (1). Age is an independent risk factor for suffering from a severe disease, with the ages of 65 and over representing the highest risk. In the US, individuals over the age of 65 represent 45% of hospital admissions, 53% of intensive care unit admissions,...