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In the era of advanced medical and surgical procedures, involving the patient in the decision-making process has become an ethical imperative. But modern health care systems should go one step further, according to patient rights advocates like Nadine Montgomery, who delivered the Sir Robert Macintosh Lecture titled Informed Consent: The Pursuers Perspective today, during the opening ceremony. Not only should the receivers of medical care understand their options, benefits, and risks associated...

Close intraoperative monitoring of arterial pressure is a clinical priority, since profound hypotension during surgery raises the risk of multiple negative sequelae including myocardial injury, acute kidney injury, and death.1 A significant recent advance in this area has been the development of predictive haemodynamic monitoring software, which aims to predict hypotension such that it can be averted even before it occurs. Encouraging new evidence regarding this software has recently been publis...

A vision and roadmap to a safe and sustainable future in healthcare! FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Glasgow United Kingdom – 2 June 2023   Introduction Climate change is a defining issue for our generation. It is now an ethical and practical imperative that we take action to prevent disaster. As clinicians and physicians, we have always practised the principle of “first do no harm!” yet we have limited this to the person in front of us. As healthcare providers, we now understand the importance...

Today, we lost Professor Paolo Pelosi, an esteemed figure in the field of anaesthesiology and intensive care medicine. On May 30, 2023, Professor Pelosi passed away, leaving behind a legacy of exceptional contributions to medical research, clinical practice, and education. His untimely departure is a great loss to the medical community worldwide. Born in Milan, Italy, in 1963, Professor Paolo Pelosi demonstrated an exceptional aptitude for medicine from an early age. He pursued his academic jour...

Anne Marie Camilleri Podesta Member of the ESAIC National Anaesthesiologists Societies Committee (NASC) – Malta Representative, Federico Bilotta Chair of the ESAIC National Anaesthesiologists Societies Committee (NASC) Review of 2022 and projects for 2023 The NASC comprises representatives from each National Society of Anaesthesiologists in Europe, promoting education and safe anaesthesiology practice. In 2022, the committee actively promoted initiatives and addressed National Societies...

ESAIC and SESAM collaborate to run Simulation Instructors Training in Advanced Airway Management in Romania Crina Burlacu Member of the ESAIC Simulation Committee Creating a national simulation-based education and training (SBET) curriculum for training anaesthesiology residents is no small task. Very few countries in Europe have attempted to do so, and even fewer have implemented mandatory SBET in their anaesthesiology residency programme1. The road to developing, implementing, and standardisin...

Benedikt Preckel Chair of the ESAIC Patient Safety and Quality Committee Last year was busy yet fruitful for the Patient Safety and Quality Committee. Two main projects kept the committee members, as well as previous members who were co-opted for the different projects, busy: Safer Care to Save Lives – a complete training programme built on the Helsinki Declaration’s overarching principles and aimed at providing fundamental knowledge on patient safety in acute settings. While we are sti...

Gabriel M. Gurman, MD Chief Editor The first intensive care unit (ICU) appeared concomitantly on both continents, Europa and North America, at the end of the 6th decade of the last century. This was not a pure coincidence. The polio pandemic, which started in Scandinavia a couple of years earlier, obliged the medical administration all over the world to take measures to be prepared to treat future cases of acute respiratory failure, and very soon, those units started to admit almost any acute pa...

Peter Kranke – Chair of the ESAIC Guidelines Committee Sylvia Daamen, Pierre Harlet and Sophie Debouche The ESAIC Guidelines Committee has established several task forces to elaborate guidelines on the related subject. The task forces are made up of anaesthesiologists nominated by the Taskforce chairs to include expertise from the necessary scientific fields. Others complement these individuals with particular interest and enthusiasm as task force members and as part of a wider advisory g...

Marc Samama EJA Editor-in-Chief The EJA-EJAIC Editorial Team is the largest ESAIC committee, with eight Deputy-Editors-in-Chief, nine Associate Editors, six Deputy-Associate Editors, and four Language Scientific editors, two Methods, Statistics, and Epidemiology Editors, one Book and Media Reviews Editor, and an Editor-in-Chief (EIC). Our editors come from twelve different European countries. We also benefit from the commitment of our Journal Manager (Lizzy Seal) and our publisher (Daniel Hyde),...