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The Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Jeanette Thirlwell Best Paper Award for 2021 has been awarded to Dr Anthony Hade and colleagues of the Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Queensland, Australia, for their paper entitled ‘Factors associated with low levels of patient satisfaction following peripheral nerve block’. 1
The 2021 Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Junior Investigator Award has been awarded to Dr Dilraj Thind of the Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK, and the Department of Anaesthesia, Christchurch Hospital, New Zealand, for ‘Coolsense® versus EMLA® for peripheral venous cannulation in adult volunteers: a randomised crossover trial’. 2 At a recent editors’ meeting it was confirmed that this award will now be known as the Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Emerging Investigator Award. Conditions for entry will not change. Readers are reminded that the origin, history and judging of both of these awards have previously been discussed in detail for those who might be interested. 3
Both the journal and the societies are also extremely proud to congratulate the author of one of the papers published in the 2021 Anaesthesia and Intensive Care History Supplement. Dr Rajesh Haridas’ paper ‘John Davies Thomas: Chloroformist in London and pioneer South Australian doctor’ 4 has been awarded the 2021 David Zuck Memorial Prize of the History of Anaesthesia Society (UK) for the year’s best journal article on the history of anaesthesia. 5 This is the fourth year running this prize has been awarded to a paper in the History Supplement of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care.
On behalf of all the editors and the editorial board of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, the Australian Society of Anaesthetists and the New Zealand Society of Anaesthetists, congratulations to all our Journal award winners for papers published in 2021.