Recorded at the Euroanaesthesia 2025 meeting in Lisbon, Portugal. Here the focus is on patient safety in anaesthesiology. We discuss the importance of patient safety preoperatively, intraoperatively, and postoperatively, with innovations in perioperative medicine and artificial intelligence.

The ESAIC Patient Safety and Quality Committee developed a patient safety education project: the Safer Care to Save Lives, a comprehensive package of patient safety education for anaesthesiologists, healthcare professionals, hospital management and patients. We also look at the need for standardized protocols, effective communication, and remote monitoring to enhance postoperative patient care. The episode concludes with a call to action for practitioners to engage in patient safety training and a look forward to the next congress in Rotterdam.

Presented by Kate Leslie, with her guest, Benedikt Preckel, Professor of Anaesthesiology, Patient Safety in the Perioperative Period and Quality of Care, University of Amsterdam Medical Center, in the Netherlands, and Chair of the ESAIC Patient Safety and Quality Committee.