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Kurt Ruetzler kurt.ruetzler@reflex.at When I saw the announcement for the first ESAIC mentorship program about 4 years ago, I just left Switzerland to join a large academic institution in the United States. As a person who wants to accomplish much in the future, it was a no-brainer for me that I will apply. But, of course, there was a lot of uncertainty about the program. The biggest challenge for an early career physician like me was navigating through the numerous career paths available to so...

Dr R Mellado Artigas MD, EDAIC, EDIC. Dr M Giménez-Milà MD, EDAIC, EDIC rmartigas@gmail.com Protective ventilation is a cornerstone in the management of patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in the ICU. In the last decade, we have seen physiological evidence showing that protective ventilation also confers benefit to patients in the operating room (OR)(1–4). Importantly, a trial carried out by Futier et al. showed that when protective ventilation was compared to non-prote...

Gabriel M. Gurman, MD Chief editor gurman@bgu.ac.il Once upon a time, when I started my residency in anaesthesia, one of the absolute contraindications for surgery was the very old patient. Nobody wanted to touch a very old patient with significant comorbidities, except in case of emergency. The postoperative morbidity and mortality were high enough to justify this “policy”, and the medical personnel lived with the impression that this situation was accepted by the general public.  I do no...

Martina Klincova National Trainee Representative for the Czech Republic and chairwoman of the Czech Young Anaesthesiologists Section Klincova.Martina@fnbrno.cz A few months before the Euroanaesthesia Congress in Geneva in 2017, the chief of our Department, Assoc. Prof. Petr Stourac (who is also a member of ESAIC Council), addressed me to become the National Trainee Representative (NTR) for the Czech Republic in the ESAIC Trainees Committee (ESAICTC). I honestly had no idea what exactly it meant...