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Dear ESAIC Member,   We are pleased to inform you that we have recently launched the election procedure for the new ESAIC Council Members. Council Members are to be elected for the next term of office starting on 1 January 2021 in the following countries: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Estonia, North Macedonia and Serbia. Active Members are eligible to present themselves as a candidate to the elections to represent their working country in the Council. We need you!!! ESAIC members are the ones who dri...

Manuel Otero-Lopez, Hôpital Avicenne, AP-HP, Bobigny, France Pablo Monedero, Clínica Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain motero@doctors.org.uk   The European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC) has decided to add explicitly “Intensive Care” to its name. The proposal to change the name of ESA to ESAIC, The European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, has been approved with the full support of its members and will be implemented from October 2020...

Chief editor’s note: With this paper, we intend to open a new rubric: The residents’ corner, hoping that our readers and members will gladly contribute to it and take this opportunity to share information on their work conditions, research activities and future plans. Alberto Barbieri1, Enrico Giuliani2, Gabriele Melegari3, Elisabetta Bertellini3 School of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care of University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Department of Medical, Surgical, Maternal-Child and Adul...

Up to 206 Million People Reached and Over 5.4 Million Trained in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Worldwide Nadine Rott1, Andrew Lockey2, Bernd W. Böttiger1 bernd.boettiger@uk-koeln.de 1 Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne, Germany 2 Emergency Department, Calderdale Royal Hospital, Halifax, United Kingdom     “All citizens of the world can save a life: “CHECK— CALL—COMPRESS.” With these words, the International Liaison Co...

  SARS-CoV-2 continues to be among the most challenging global health crises for decades. Anaesthesiologists may have contact with COVID-19 patients in numerous settings, e.g. (emergency) surgery or critical care. Ways and mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 transmission are still under investigation, yet both direct droplet transmission, as well as indirect transmission via aerosols, seem to be routes of infection 1,2. During the first spread of infections around the world, reports have emerged that...

Gabriel M. Gurman, MD Chief editor gurman@bgu.ac.il   We are living an unusual and very demanding period. The numbers say everything. As per mid-September 2020, the number of patients with COVID-19 varied between 20,000 per million population in the USA and 5,500 in the UK, and the death rate was 600 per million people in the USA, 613 in the UK, and 638 in Spain. The first question to be asked is whether the pandemic catastrophe found us, the physicians and healthcare authorities, unprepare...

Prof. Kai Zacharowski, MD PhD ML FRCA ESAIC President communication@esaic.org   We are proud to announce that, as of 1st October 2020, the European Society of Anaesthesiology (ESA) will officially become the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC). The ESAIC has a proven record of intensive care medicine as a part of our activities, education, examination and research, and it is a significant speciality in our community. However, this was not reflected in our societ...

Alexandru Rogobete MD, PhD, anaesthesia and intensive care trainee alexandru.rogobete@gmail.com   It all started as a dream; in the beginning somehow vague and blurred but as time went by more and more clear. I entered the ESAIC mentorship programme with a dream, the dream of developing a research network, the dream of learning and experiencing new emotions and that of building new bridges. In the beginning, I worked with a colleague from Spain and together we tried to walk through the mys...

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a severe clinical complication with increasing incidence [1] and it is associated with adverse short- and long-term outcomes resulting in a major health care burden worldwide. [2,3] Recent reports on incidences of AKI indicate that every second surgical patient is affected by this complication, although the true epidemiology of surgical induced AKI still remains elusive. Since AKI is now being considered as an independent risk factor for adverse outcomes [4-7], more...

Sanja Golubic, Natasha Lambevska, Slavica Boncanoska “City General Hospital 8th September”  Skopje, North Macedonia Sanja.golubic@gmail.com   In March our hospital was renamed as a COVID-19 hospital where all the COVID-19 positive or suspected patients who needed emergency surgery or some other interventions  (coronary catheterisation, angioplasty, dialysis)  were admitted. This includes also hospitalisation and treatment of more severe confirmed or suspected cases of COVID-1...