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Prof. Edoardo De Robertis has been recently elected as the ESAIC incoming President, with a transition to ESAIC President on 1 January 2022. Let’s get to know him, his ideas, and his projects. Edoardo, can you briefly describe your background and your roles and involvement in ESAIC? After the PhD in Clinical Physiology at the University of Lund in Sweden, I have started my academic and professional carrier in Italy at the University of Napoli Federico II, where I have worked in Intensive Care...

Gabriel M. Gurman, MD Chief Editor gurman@bgu.ac.il It is a long, too long time since I attended my first scientific convention. I was then a young resident, and my first official contact with very respectable personalities of my speciality had a tremendous impact on my future career. For the first time, I understood that medicine may be more than just an intellectual profession, and included the fourth field of activity, after those three very well known: patient management, research and educat...

Chief Editor’s note: We are pleased to host in this issue a short report from the Patient Safety and Quality Committee. We would like to encourage other ESAIC committees to contribute to our Newsletter by sending material related to their activity. Alex Rawlings (on behalf of the ESAIC Patient Safety and Quality Committee) patient.safety@esaic.org In the last 5 years, there have been multiple incidents of serious fires breaking out in ICU units. The recent tragedy in Ibn al-Khatib Hospital...

Marcelo Sperandio Ramos marcelosperandioramos@yahoo.com Clinical corner – The quest for smooth extubation! – I banned air from the ETT cuff for good… It is known for a fact that tracheal extubation is associated with a significant risk of complications, – The Difficult Airway Society (DAS) developed a guideline for the management of tracheal extubation in 2012. While the DAS guideline provides an excellent starting point in developing strategies for achieving successful extub...

Gabriel M. Gurman, MD Chief Editor I have no doubt that recently our readers noticed an important change in the Newsletter functionality. Since the beginning of this year, everyone can insert his/her comment on any of the monthly issued papers. The editorial board took this decision with the aim of improving the bilateral link to all our members. Good and efficient as it can be, the Newsletter without a permanent and active contact with its readers would lose a good part of its task, that of rep...

Jennifer Rose ESAIC Communication Manager communication@esaic.org ENGAGING MINDS, EMPOWERING CHANGE The ESAIC is excited to officially announce the Euroanaesthesia 2021 hybrid event! Despite the ongoing challenges our community and field continue to face while leading the charge against COVID-19, our Scientific Committee has built an extensive and excellent scientific programme conceived by and for the Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Community. This year, the congress programme is the result...

Dr Bibiana Metelmann bibiana.metelmann@uni-greifswald.de Department of Anaesthesiology at University Medicine Greifswald Greifswald, Germany Host Centre: Gottsegen Hungarian Institute of Cardiology “Édes napok Budapest” – sweet days Budapest “Édes napok Budapest” is the name of a 3-day food festival focusing on chocolate and sweets and taking place in the centre of Budapest right in front of the magnificent St. Stephen´s basilica. It was one of the first things that I serendipitousl...

Dr Anil Gupta anil.gupta@sll.se Epidemiology of Post dural puncture headache (PDPH) In the European Union, including 28 countries, the number of live births has remained fairly constant, between 5.2 – 5.4 million each year, 2010-2012 (1). Of these, approximately 20-30% of all babies are born by caesarean delivery where spinal or general anaesthesia is the routine in most countries. In the Nordic countries with universal health care for all, we estimated that on average, 32% of all mothers...

Christopher Blacker Christopher.blacker@gmail.com Trainee representative ESAIC Newsletter editorial team Dear Trainee! The ESAIC Newsletter editorial team is expanding and wants to create a “Resident Corner“ in the Newsletter section. The editorial team is therefore looking for 4-8 trainees throughout Europe to be part of this team and become regular contributors to this “Resident Corner.” More information on the newsletter can be found here. What to write about? Large f...

Marc Giménez Milà MD, PhD, EDAIC, EDIC Department of Anesthesiology. Hospital CLINIC de Barcelona. Spain gimimarc@gmail.com No one can doubt that society, the medical profession and individual patients and their families all over Europe have experienced profound changes to accommodate the arrival of this new disease. We will probably take years to realise the real impact in terms of lives lost, long-term disability after prolonged ICU and hospital admission but also from patients with non-COV...