Letter from the Editor

Dear Reader,

The 32nd annual congress of the European Association of Cardiothoracic Anaesthesiology (EACTA) was held from the 19th to 21th of April in Berlin (Germany). This year’s main emphasis was Comprehensive Cardiovascular Cardiothoracic Care (C4). This reflects the fact that cardiothoracic anaesthetists are no longer recognised solely as anaesthesia providers, but as members of a team of dedicated specialists involved in the comprehensive periprocedural surgical as well as interventional treatment of patients with cardiovascular disease.

This report gives a synopsis of the most interesting sessions and new developments in clinical practice presented at the meeting. The aim of this report is to provide interesting data for those who were not able to attend the meeting. In addition, as so many sessions were running at the same time the report might also provide new information for those who attended the meeting.

 

Editor Biography

Prof. Dr. Nicole Juffermans is a trained internist-intensivist working at the Intensive Care Department of the Academic Medical Center (AMC), University of Amsterdam (UvA), the Netherlands. She is a co-chair of the Laboratory of Experimental Intensive Care and Anaesthesiology (L. E. I. C. A.) at the AMC in which translational research is performed in the field of organ failure and lung injury. Also, she is Editor-in-Chief of the Netherlands Journal of Critical Care, the official journal of the Dutch Society of Intensive Care.



Posted on 21 April 201717 March 2021