The Finnish Neuroanaesthesia Section was born in February 1994 with less than ten neuroanaesthesiologists from our country’s five university hospitals. Ever since, the number of active members and attendees in the meetings of our section has grown. The 10^th Anniversary meeting in 2004 was my first neuroanaesthesia meeting and I remember that we were less than 20 attendees. This year, including the speakers and audience, there were 44 of us. Our meeting was held from May 16-17^th in Turku, the oldest city in Finland, dating from 13^th century. This year our winter lasted over 6 months (3 weeks before the meeting we had 25 cm of snow!) and luckily the summer weather began just a few days ahead of the meeting, pampering the meeting guests.

Our meeting lasted 1.5 days, containing altogether 13 talks. Since we had three international speakers, the official language of the meeting was English. We were honoured and delighted to have three active SNACC members, Marie Angele Theard, Ib Adedugbe and Val Luoma as our speakers. They all gave talks regarding training, covering education and teaching, simulation in neuroanaesthesia and ICPNT. Finland has a national two-year training program in neuroanaesthesia and neurocritical care and our training program was compared with the ICPNT. So far none of our five university hospitals has joined the ICPNT but let’s see what the future brings.

The meeting program covered several other themes as well. On the first day, we heard talks about Focused ultrasound HIFU/LIFU, Anaesthesia for blood brain barrier breakdown for CNS lymphoma treatment, Biomarkers in TBI and Multimodal analgesia in spinal surgery and aSAH patients. The second day included talks about One stop in Stroke, Reversal of anticoagulation, Frailty, Withdrawal of life support and Suggested reading.

The Finnish neuroanaesthetists are well known for their culinary interest, all meetings end with several course dinners. The first meeting day was not an exception. A four-meal course anniversary dinner in the historical ball room of the meeting hotel finished the evening.

So far this anniversary meeting was our most international and diverse one. Our 35^th anniversary meeting will be held again in Turku in May 2029. Hopefully our meetings will still grow, demonstrating that neuroanaesthesia is an alive and important field.