Dear colleagues

The first issue of the Greek e-journal of Perioperative Medicine for 2024 presents various articles concerning perioperative medicine.

Muhammad Umar Younis, in his review article, aims to determine the prevalence of burnout among surgeons, to identify the risk factors for it and to employ mitigation strategies to reduce the likelihood of burnout. The author notes that the most commonly identified risk factors for surgeons’ burnout are age, marital status, financial standing, the outcome of their interest, the balance between work and personal life, experience in the field, and gender. He concludes that the above responsible factors should be explored by surgeons, hospital management boards, training centers in order to find ways to prevent it and to ensure a healthy workplace environment and high-quality surgical patient care.

The next article of Soulountsi V et al. describes the case of a patient, who was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), with oligemic shock, due to severe bleeding from the right carotid artery, after a central venous catheter placement in the right jugular vein. During patient’s stay in the ICU, comprehensive laboratory work-up led to the diagnosis of acquired hemophilia A (AHA), a rare bleeding disorder caused by autoantibodies to… Continue reading →