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A Brief History of the World Congress of Regional Anaesthesia
T
he concept of having a World Congress of Regional Anesthesia
was an evolutionary process that started in the 1980s with
joint ASRA and European Society of Regional Anesthesia
(ESRA) meetings in Vienna (Austria) and Williamsburg, Virginia
(United States) and in the 1990s in Brussels (Belgium), Auckland
(New Zealand), and Quebec (Canada), the latter two under the
auspices of the International Society of Regional Anaesthesia (ISRA).
The idea of arranging a World Congress of Regional Anesthesia
to promote regional anesthesia and analgesia techniques with an
international perspective and supported by all the major regional
anesthesia societies was floated in ESRA under the leadership
of Narinder Rawal (secretary general) and André van Zundert
(president), with the ESRA Board approving the event. Instead of
the regular annual meeting in 2002 in Barcelona, it was decided
to have a truly international scientific program by including faculty
from all four major regional anesthesia societies: ASRA, ESRA,
the Latin America Society of Regional Anesthesia (LASRA), and
the Asian and Oceanic Society of Regional Anesthesia (AOSRA),
including presidents and secretaries from each society. More than
110 international speakers from all four societies participated.
The extensive scientific program included topics of interest to
delegates from low-resource countries, and a large number of
Figure 1: The first joint World Congress on Regional Anaesthesia and
Pain Therapy was held in Barcelona, Spain.
workshops included cadaver
and anaesthetized pigs. The
Barcelona World Congress on
Regional Anesthesia was very
successful, with the highest
number of attendees ever in a
regional anesthesia congress
(about 1,800). Michael Cousins
from Australia was the Carl
Koller award recipient that year
(Figure 1).
Narinder Rawal, MD, PhD, FRCA, EDRA
The success of the first World
Professor
Congress of Regional Anesthesia
Örebro University
encouraged the presidents and
Örebro, Sweden
secretaries of all four regional
anesthesia societies to have
such meetings at 4-year intervals on a rotating basis. It was agreed
that all the administrative and financial arrangements would be the
responsibility of the organizing society. The second World Congress
took place in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) in 2006 under the auspices
of LASRA (Figure 2). Although there were several administrative
challenges, approximately 700 delegates attended the congress.
Figure 2: Rio de Janeiro was the site of the 2nd World Congress in 2006.
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