Diversity at Euroanaesthesia 2025

Euroanaesthesia 2025: the annual meeting of the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, in Lisbon, Portugal. TopMedTalk were there, check out our coverage on our podcast timeline. We’ve released many bonus episodes over the last few weeks!

In this piece Kate Leslie and Nick Margerrison speak with their guests Sarah Saxena, course director and professor of anaesthesiology at the University of Mons, Belgium and Mia Gisselbaek, an anaesthesiologist and PhD student in medical education at University of Geneva Hospital, Switzerland.

Drs Saxena and Gisselbaek were members of the working group for the ESAIC Mellin-Olsen Declaration on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, which was signed at the opening ceremony of Euroanaesthesia 2025 in Lisbon, Portugal.

The declaration can be found here: ESAIC Mellin-Olsen declaration on diversity, equity and inclusion. Eur J Anaesthesiol. 2025 May 2. doi: 10.1097/EJA.0000000000002186

A link to the machine learning algorithm for delirium developed by Drs Saxena and Gisselbaek can be found here https://delirium.streamlit.app