More from this year’s coverage of the European Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC). This piece focuses on perioperative and intensive care medicine, the importance of evidence-based guidelines over expert opinion. Why do we need a European perioperative database? How important is mentorship in medicine? How do we take the lead with leadership? Presented by Desiree Chappell and Kate Leslie with their guests Wolfgang Buhre, President of the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine and Carolina Romero Garcia, Research Mentorship Programme Leader for the European Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC), Consultant Anesthesiologist, Consorcio Hospital General Universitario de Valencia.