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Alex Rawlings ESAIC Patient Safety and Simulation Project Manager The ESAIC Advanced Patient Safety Course is a new live course to teach patient safety tools to use in acute settings. We offer modern teaching using interactive group work and innovative 360-degree videos of key scenarios, followed by debriefing, to bring examples of critical situations to life.  The APSC forms a key part of the Safer Care to Save Lives Programme, an ESAIC Patient Safety Education programme. The Safer Care to Sa...

Daniel Arnal, Maria Wittmann ESAIC Patient Safety and Quality Committee It’s been ten years since the EUSOS study publication that highlighted a higher postoperative mortality than expected in Europe (4%) and a high variability between countries1. According to the European Commission, between 8% and 12% of patients admitted to hospitals in the EU suffer from adverse events in health care2. It’s been more than two decades since European anaesthesiologists, through the European Board of Anaest...

Prof. Peter Kranke  ESAIC Guidelines Committee Chair For many years the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC) has been strongly supporting the development of high-quality, evidence-based guidelines as a tool to harmonise and improve clinical practice in anaesthesia, perioperative medicine, intensive care, emergency medicine as well as pain therapy throughout Europe. These guidelines are intended to serve overarching objectives. One frequently cited reason to develop gui...

Gabriel M.Gurman, MD Chief Editor This subject is far from being esoteric. It is an integral part of medicine in general, and especially of anaesthesiology.  In its 1999 report “To err is human: building a safer health system”, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published the shocking estimate that up to 98,000 annual deaths were caused by medical errors in the United States (1).  I hope to be excused for reminding banalities to our readers. Still, I feel the need to start by enumerating so...

After signing an MOU in 2019 at Euroanaesthesia Vienna, ESAIC and EACTAIC now further strengthen their professional relationship and cooperation by a formal signing of a Consensus Statement on Adult and Paediatric Fellowship Training in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anaesthesia and Intensive Care and a document on cooperation between both societies for the launch of an ESAIC trainee and specialist observership programme in the field of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anaesthesia and Intensive Care. T...

Charles Marc Samama, MD Editor-in-Chief European Journal of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care As ESAIC members and readers of the EJA and EJAIC, you will notice many exciting changes in the coming months! Don’t forget that you receive the journals as part of your membership, which can be accessed by logging into MyESAIC on the ESAIC homepage. Make sure you log in to view these exciting changes and updates. Following a collaborative meeting of the Editorial Board and our Publisher at Euroana...

Natalia Belii, MD After two years of COVID pandemics, and only 187 km from the Odessa frontline, the Moldavian Society of Anaesthesiologists (MSA) organized the 6th module of the course  (June 23-25, 2022) under the auspices of the European Committee for Education in Anaesthesiology (CEEA), this time with participants in the audience. Despite the restrictions still imposed by the recent pandemics and the fragile geopolitical situation in the region, the MSA is permanently acting to maintain th...

A note from the Chief Editor: We are pleased to initiate a new rubric, the Literary corner, in which we intend to publish short stories related to our profession and daily activity. The readers and ESAIC members are encouraged and invited to contribute to this new initiative. Andrei Schwartz, MD My patient, P.T., was a 70-yrs old man with grey hair and long feet, so long that it was difficult to accommodate them in a normal hospital bed. He was planned to pass a partial resection of the prostate...

Dr. Bazil Ateleanu MD, DEAA, FRCA, FESAIC Examinations Committee Chair ESAIC Board Member 2022 signalled the beginning of a long-awaited return to normality. Nevertheless, COVID is still among us, not only influencing healthcare models but also on political decisions, often impossible to predict. Faced with all of these restrictions and adversities, the Examinations Committee, respecting the Board and Council strategies, adapted swiftly and successfully. Our admirable staff contributed and, in s...

Gabriel M. Gurman, MD – Chief editor Ioana Grigoras, MD The last century witnessed a dramatic change in the anaesthesia field: from an activity covered by nonmedical personnel, anaesthesiology became a medical speciality, practised by physicians worldwide. The anaesthesiologist became a clinician, and his/her expertise included – among others – vast knowledge regarding those diseases which can influence the anaesthetic procedures and patient postoperative outcomes. Knowing his...