Gabriel M. Gurman
Chief Editor
Many years ago, immediately after the fall of the Iron Curtain, a serious process of closing the professional distances between the two parts of the continent started, and the WFSA promoted a series of programs and projects with the aim of offering our colleagues from Eastern Europe the necessary help to overcome the huge differences in their daily practice.
Sue Hill, Chairperson Examinations Committee
sue.hill@uhs.nhs.uk
With the elevation of our previous Chairman to the Presidency of ESA, there has been a change of order in the Examinations Committee.
Dr. David Whitaker – Chair Patient Safety Committee
whitaker2000@googlemail.com
Outside hospitals in Europe there is a single standard emergency telephone number, 112, that can be dialled free of charge to reach the emergency medical services (EMS).
Paul McConnell, Scotland
Edoardo De Robertis, Italy
Chris Danbury, England
Eldar Søreide, Norway
ederober@unina.it
eldar.soreide@sus.no
With the on-going advancements in life-sustaining therapies, we must increasingly ask ourselves not only “What can we do?”, but rather “What should we do?”.
Jeroen Hermanides, Chiara Robba, Federico Bilotta
During the last ESA meeting in London the Neuroanaesthesia subcommittee organized and contributed to several activities, which included: pre-congress course on intraoperative brain monitoring, symposia, lectures, and business meeting.
Philipp Lirk
p.lirk@amc.uva.nl
On May 29th 2016 at the Euroanaesthesia Congress, a full lecture hall listened to the Pro-Con-Debate between our esteemed colleagues William Harrop-Griffiths and Donal Buggy regarding the potential of regional anaesthesia techniques to decrease the likelihood of metastases after cancer surgery.
Karl Thies
On behalf of SSC10 Critical Emergency Medicine – Trauma and Resuscitation
dunjamihajlovic@hotmail.com
The European Trauma Course in London, held as a pre-congress event, was a huge success.
Jean-Pierre Estebe MD, PhD, ESA subcommittee 8: acute and chronic pain and palliative medicine pain management
Jean-pierre.estebe@chu-rennes.fr
During this year’s ESA meeting held in London, many discussions clarified the strong link between some preoperative factors and the risk of a high level of postoperative pain.
Dr. Claudia Marquez Simoes, Sao Paolo, Brazil, from the Sao Paolo State Society of Anaesthesiology (SAESP), attended Euroanaesthesia, London, May 2016.
She was very kind to answer some questions related to this event and the continuation of the relations between the two societies.
Jennifer M. Hunter
Emeritus Professor of Anaesthesia, University of Liverpool, England
banavie@btinternet.com
I was honoured and thrilled to be awarded an Honorary Life Fellowship of the European Society of Anaesthesiology (ESA) at the Euroanaesthesia Congress in London in May 2016.
Armen Varosyan, OLA subcommittee chairperson
avarosyan@gmail.com
It is my greatest pleasure to write about this great event in the history of anaesthesiology, and it is a special honour to be a part of it with my colleagues.
Jan Hendrickx, Past chair SSC 14
Thomas Scheeren, Current chair SSC 14
jcnwahendrickx@yahoo.com
t.w.l.scheeren@umcg.nl
The Scientific Subcommittee (SSC) 14 on Monitoring, Ultrasound, and Equipment of the European Society of Anaesthesiology (ESA) has been chaired since January 2016 by Thomas Scheeren.
Luca Brazzi
lbrazzi@unito.it
The term capnography refers to the non-invasive measurement of the partial pressure of carbon dioxide (CO2) in exhaled breath expressed as the CO2 concentration over time.
Masterclass in Statistics and Research Methodology, 6-8 September 2016 Masterclass in Scientific…
Davide Chiumello
chiumello@libero.it
Since its first description, the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) has been redefined several times in order to ameliorate the accuracy of the clinical diagnosis.
Idit Matot, Past Chair of the ESA Scientific Subcommittee 15, Geriatric Anaesthesiology
Idit.matot@gmail.com
When we speak of “age” and anaesthesia one might limit the discussion to the elderly patient undergoing surgery.
Benjamin Drenger
drenger@huji.ac.il
Each year, in March, a memorial service is held in Krakow in memory of the victims of the city ghetto during World War II.
Abstract Submission: 1 November – 15 November 2016 http://www.esahq.org/congresses/future-euroanaesthesia/euroanaesthesia-2017
