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Article History

Received: 25 May 2026

Accepted: 29 May 2026

First Online: 5 June 2026

Declarations

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: JBE is Associate Editor-in-Chief of BJA Open. She received speakers’ fees from Medtronic (paid to the institution). AA is the financial trustee of the BJA company. JBE and AA are members of the Board of Directors of the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care. AWG is past president of the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiology and has consulting agreements with Haisco Pharma, Medtronic, BD and Fresenius Kabi. All relationships are outside the submitted work.

: During the preparation of this work, the authors used ChatGPT v.5.2 to improve readability and grammar. After using this tool, the authors reviewed and edited the content as needed and take full responsibility for the content of the published article.