Editors' preface [Acta Anaesthesiologica Melitensis, volume 1, issue 3]

Abstract

The Assocation of Anaesthetists of Malta is now four years old and is again organising its annual conference and publishing its journal the Acta Anaesthesiologica Melitensia. The Czech Association of Anaesthetists is participating in this conference. This joint effort is an attempt to break down the barriers of insularity that are common to a small island and its medical community. This paralysing inferiority complex has got to be defeated. Anaesthesia as practiced at the St. Luke's Hospital Complex is of a high standard comparable with that obtainable anywhere in the world - in apparata, in drugs and in qualified anaesthetic personnel. The Association of Anaesthetists is also active in the Paediatric section of the European branch of the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists and is appointed to sit on the panel of the First International Congress of Paediatric Anaesthesia being held in Holland in 1986. The Association is already preparing for the fourth annual conference which will be held on the 15th August 1986, the height of summer, in an effort to attract more foreign partici})ants who will combine a scientific one day session with their annual holiday.