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  Prof Ibsen Lecture – from pandemic to ESAIC Today, Saturday 4 June, 1000-1030H, Silver Room In January this year, Prof Kai Zacharwoski finished his term as ESAIC President, having been at the helm during some of the society’s most challenging years as our members and the organisation itself battled and adjusted to pandemic life. Kai is Director of the Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine & Pain Therapy, University Hospital Frankfurt, Germany, and is an intensive...

Today Saturday, June 4, 0930H-1000H AM, Silver Room This year’s Sir Robert Macintosh Lecture will be given by Kate Prior, who is Surgeon Captain in the British Royal Navy and also a Consultant in Anaesthetics and Major Trauma, at King’s College Hospital, London, UK. She will deliver her perspectives on serving as an anaesthesiologist in conflict zones, as well as other important experiences from outside this environment Q: Welcome to Euroanaesthesia 2022 Kate. For our delegates that donR...

In January of this year, Prof Edoardo De Robertis, Director of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care at the University of Perugia, Italy, became the President of ESAIC, taking over from Professor Kai Zacharowski. On behalf of the entire Executive Committee and ESAIC staff, he is wishing the warmest of welcomes to all our delegates, both those joining us in person in Milan and also on our virtual platform. Q: Edoardo – it’s so good to be back in person for Euroanaesthesia 2022! Tell us how you are f...

ESAIC is pleased to announce that Prof. Dr Michel MRF Struys has been appointed by the Board of Directors to serve as Scientific Committee Chair for the period 1 January 2024 to 31 December 2026. As of 1st July 2022, he will start in the position of Chair-Elect and he will join Prof. Dr Idit Matot, current Scientific Committee Chair (until December 2023), in chairing the Scientific Committee. Prof. Struys, MD, PhD, FRCA is a Professor and Chair at the Department of Anaesthesiology, University M...

Georgios Karras Trainee Representative trainees-committee@esaic.org The Hellenic Anaesthesiology Trainees Society (H.A.T.S.) has been proudly part of the ESAIC Trainee Network since 2017. Despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we aimed to establish an official connection with our European colleagues and within our National Society. These goals were also presented at the Euroanaesthesia 2020 Virtual Congress. During the 24th National Congress of Greek Anaesthesiologists, the board of the Hellenic...

Gabriel M. Gurman, MD Chief Editor gurman@bgu.ac.il The Ukrainian tragedy of the last weeks, the increasing number of soldiers and civilians wounded or killed, the destruction of thousands of houses, schools, hospitals and any other normal facilities of human existence brought to my memory scenes from those wars in which I took part as a medical officer. I remember those days in which I had to take care of renewing disposable medical equipment and drugs, and also those nights during which I had...

Dr Cheah Kean Seng MBBS, FCAI dkscheah@gmail.com Wallace Wattles, an American author once said, ‘It is essential to have good tools, but it is also essential that the tools should be used in the right way’. This quote couldn’t be more legitimate in describing our use of capnography in practice. The use of capnography is still far from universal and thorough understanding despite its first introduction in the United States in 1978. In one survey of 315 ICU units across the UK and the Republ...

Gabriela Sousa gscsousa@gmail.com Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de São João, Porto, Portugal My name is Gabriela Sousa and I work in a tertiary hospital in Oporto, Portugal, as an anaesthesiologist, since 2017. A couple of years ago I felt the need to challenge myself, get out of my comfort zone and improve my expertise in an area I was lacking experience and know-how! It was when I became aware of the Trainee Exchange Program, which I thought could be the perfect opportunity for me to de...

Prof. Jean-Michel Constantin, Virginie Delplanque, Xavier Delplanque vfdelplanque@gmail.com The global health context requires international collaboration. There is an urge to team up more effectively to better treat patients during emergency procedures. Today, and worldwide, caregivers are suffering because of: The Covid crisis, that lasts… In some countries, situations of war and state of emergency Understaffed teams and work overload In several regions of the world, a significant staff tur...

Marc Van de Velde, Esther Pogatzki-Zahn, Anne -Claire Lukaszewicz, Dan Longrois, Tom G. Hansen, Patrice Forget, Michelle S. Chew, Nicolas Bruder, and Charles Marc Samama marc.samama@aphp.fr The European Journal of Anaesthesiology (EJA) has long been the main academic journal of the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC). It has been recognised for years as one of the leading scientific journals in its field in Europe; its impact factor has increased steadily reaching 4.3...