Articles: anesthesiology.
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Technological innovation has greatly aided modern medicine, and anaesthesiology in particular, but also contributes to dehumanising influences that promote physician burnout and dissatisfaction among patients. Here we advocate for a profound reaffirmation of humanistic principles-empathy, compassion, and communication-in perioperative medicine. We propose adaptable strategies to bolster humanism in practice, such as curricular offerings, simulation training, role modelling, and recognition. As perioperative technologies continue to evolve, the threat of depersonalisation in anaesthetic care looms, making commitments to humanism a crucial precondition for healing in the communities in which we work and live.
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Neonatal airway management comes with exclusive anatomical, physiological, and environmental complexities, and probably higher incidences of accidents and complications. No dedicated airway management guidelines were available until the recently published first joint guideline released by a task force supported by the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care and the British Journal of Anaesthesia and focused on airway management in children under 1 yr of age. The guideline offers a series of recommendations based on meticulous methodology including multiple Delphi rounds to complement the sparse and scarce available evidence. Getting back from Brobdingnag, the land of giants with many guidelines available, this guideline represents a foundational cornerstone in the land of Lilliput.