title: [Anaesthesia tomorrow. Looking to the future].
abstract: As in past and present times anaesthesiology will remain the central and original part in the spectrum of anaesthesiology, emergency, pain and intensive-care medicine also in the future. Nevertheless, profound changes will take place within the next few years promoting the anaesthesiologist to the manager of the perioperative workflow. Soft and hard skills like qualification in organisation, team-leading, costing and overall quality management will be mandatory. On the other hand, medical and scientific visions should also remain in scope. Improvements in selectivity of pharmacology and monitoring in anaesthesiology and reduction of perioperative morbidity should also be actively promoted. To provide independence from commercial goals of industrial companies and to enable developments from basic research up to evidence-based clinical applications, concentration of knowledge and financial resources in centres of excellence will be imperative.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Anästhesiologie, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg. burmeister@uke.uni-hamburg.de
authors.forename: M-A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Burmeister
mesh_terms: D000700:Analgesics / Q000494:pharmacology; D000758:Anesthesia / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000401:mortality; D000776:Anesthesiology / Q000639:trends*; D000777:Anesthetics / Q000494:pharmacology; D006801:Humans; D016343:Monitoring, Intraoperative; D012106:Research
chemical_list: D000700:Analgesics; D000777:Anesthetics