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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...

Ruth Shaylor, MD Ruth.shaylor@gmail.com To be featured in the Euroanaesthesia Milan Session 11P1 Airway management future: ingenious ideas! – on Saturday 4 June, 1630H, Room Amber 3 It has been impossible to avoid three-dimensional (3D) printing over the last two years whether it’s a 3D-printed ventilator, a 3D-printed mask, or even the 3D-printed ear protectors that we all use. In addition, 3D printing, and virtual reality (VR) have entered clinical practice in recent years, and are in...

Alex Rawlings – ESAIC Patient Safety and Simulation Project Manager alex.rawlings@esaic.org 2022 World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit April 29 @ 8:00 am – April 30 @ 5:00 pm PDT Since 2017, ESAIC has co-convened the Patient Safety Movement Foundation’s annual summit. This relationship has been important in talking the ESAIC’s message on Patient Safety beyond the borders of Europe and into the international arena. The PSMF has existed since 2014. It is a non-profit o...

Igor Abramovich, Albert de Bettignies, Nadine van Veenendaal, Alexandra Trinks, Diogo Mendes Morais, Georgios Karras, Iulia Crisan, Žilvinas Jucius trainees-committee@esaic.org Following up on our article from last April we would like to present the new Trainee Committee in place since January 2022. The ESAIC Trainee Committee (ESAICTC) continues the mission to establish a network between the approximately 22.000 European Anaesthesiology Trainees (the ESAIC Trainee Network (ESAICTN)), from the...

Jyoti Gupta, MD jyoti.yogesh.gupta@gmail.com INTRODUCTION As per the IASP definition, pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with or resembling that associated with actual or potential tissue damage.1 Modern-day anaesthesia, with its focus on fast-track techniques and enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS), demands equally good perioperative analgesia with minimum possible side effects. There has been a shift towards opioid-sparing analgesia in the past decade. This a...

Chief Editor notes: We are pleased to publish in this issue summaries of two very interesting lectures to be presented during Euroanaesthesia 2022, and thank those speakers who answered our invitation to send their papers to the ESAIC Newsletter. Tamara Skrisovska Tamara.skri@seznam.cz Despite its huge potential to improve healthcare and affect patient outcomes, patient blood management (PBM) principles have not yet been adopted broadly. From the available data, the education gaps and lack of a...

Carolyn Weiniger, Ruth Shaylor ruth@shaylor.co.uk See one do one teach one is the way many of us today learned anaesthesia techniques. But this era has passed. Didactic lectures are important, enabling information to be succinctly presented and given to a largely receptive audience. Appealing and useful audiovisuals can enhance these lectures, enabling participants to take home succinct messages, and share them on Social Media. Yet didactic lectures do not enable the learner an opportunity to a...

Joana Berger Estilita & Marko Zdravkovic markozdravcovic@gmail.com Over the last 10 years, much data concerning gender equity in anaesthesia and intensive care have been published (1,2). Mostly, these data show numerical differences between men and women in leadership positions and in research. This is usually measured as the number of women authors, the number of women as first or the leading author, the number of women on editorial boards, in panels, as speakers at conferences etc. The nu...