Anaesthesia & Peri-operative Medicine
The Anaesthesia & Peri-operative Medicine section is led by Alexander Vlaar.
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RESOURCES
EDUCATION
Courses
Transforming patient pathway, workflow & outcome Learning Pathway 2024-2025
Webinars & Podcasts
Webinars
– How to manage coagulation in perioperative medicine?
– The safety of perioperative ventilation
– Perioperative mechanical ventilation: what did we learn?
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RESEARCH
Projects
SQUEEZE
SQUEEZE is a prospective multicentre international observational study of postoperative vasopressor usage.
The study is lead by Dr. Ib JAMMER (Haukeland University Hospital – Bergen, Norway) and Dr. Ben Creagh-Brown (Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust – Guidlford, United Kingdom)
Initiated in the ESICM POIC Section, this is a European Society of Anaesthesiology Clinical Trial Network (ESA CTN) sponsored study and it has been endorsed by ESICM.
Surveys
– Current Practices in the Management of New-Onset Atrial Fibrillation in the ICU (NOAF-ICU Survey)
– Anticoagulation Survey 2026
– Attitudes of physicians and pharmacists towards the treatment of anaemia in critically ill patients: A vignette-based questionnaire study
Guidelines and consensus statement
2021
Robba, C., Wong, A., Poole, D. et al. Basic ultrasound head-to-toe skills for intensivists in the general and neuro intensive care unit population: consensus and expert recommendations of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine Intensive Care Med 47, 1347–1367 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-021-06486-z
2020
– Leone, M., Einav, S., Chiumello, D. et al. Noninvasive respiratory support in the hypoxaemic peri-operative/periprocedural patient: a joint ESA/ESICM guideline. Intensive Care Med 46, 697–713 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-020-05948-0.
– Vlaar, A.P., Oczkowski, S., de Bruin, S. et al. Transfusion strategies in non-bleeding critically ill adults: a clinical practice guideline from the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine. Intensive Care Med 46, 673–696 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-019-05884-8
Relevant Literature
Futier, E., De Jong, A., Cirenei, C. et al. Personalized driving pressure-guided positive end-expiratory pressure in patients at risk of postoperative respiratory failure (IMPROVE-2): a multicenter, pragmatic, randomized clinical trial. Intensive Care Med 51, 1797–1808 (2025).
De Jong, A., Jaber, S. & Schaefer, M. Key principles and recent developments for ventilatory management of the surgical critically ill patient. Intensive Care Med 51, 1886–1889 (2025).
Michard, F., Chew, M. & Futier, E. Perioperative cardiac output monitoring for the many. Intensive Care Med 51, 1526–1529 (2025).