Research Focus

Cardiovascular & Perioperative Medicine

Area of Research

Perioperative metabolism focused on influencing the surgical stress response using various pain management strategies, perioperative nutritional support and insulin administration

• Metabolic markers and insulin resistance in critically ill patients undergoing cardiac surgery
• Interdisciplinary guideline for hip fracture patients
• Hba1c and the SSI study population: a subgroup analysis assessing the correlation of diabetes status, HbA1c and surgical site infection

National Collaborations

   1) Medical nutrition therapy in intermediate and intensive care

• Prof. Dr. med. Christoph Stettler, Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, Nutritional Medicine and Metabolism, Insel University Hospital, Berne
• Prof. Dr. med. Lia Bally, Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, Nutritional Medicine and Metabolism, Insel University Hospital, Berne

   2) HbA1c and the SSI study population: a subgroup analysis assessing correlation of diabetes status, HbA1c and surgical site infections

• Prof. Dr. med. Walter Weber, Department of General Surgery, University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
• Prof. Dr. med. Christoph Kindler, Clinic for Anesthesia and Surgical Intensive Care, Cantonal Hospital, Aarau, Switzerland

   3) The interdisciplinary POMME guideline for patients undergoing hip fracture surgery

• Prof. Dr. med. Norbert Suhm, Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
• PD. Dr. med. Diether Cadosch, Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
• Dr. nutr. Caroline Kiss, University Center for Medicine of Aging, Felix Platter Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
• Prof. Reto W. Kressig, University Center for Medicine of Aging, Felix Platter Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
• Prof. Dr. med. Wilhelm Ruppen, Department of Anesthesia, Prehospital Emergency Medicine and Pain Therapy, University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
• Prof. Roland Bingisser, Department of Emergency Medicine, University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
• med.pract. Aurélie Leuenberger, Department of Anesthesia, Prehospital Emergency medicine and Pain Therapy, University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
• med pract. Michel Pinto, Department of Anesthesia, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
• med. pract. Michaela Klupp, Department of Internal Medicine, Cantonal Hospital, Liestal, Switzerland

4) Metabolic markers and insulin resistance in critically ill patients undergoing cardiac surgery

• med. pract. Anita Boltres, Institute for Cardiac Anesthesia, University Hospital, Dresden, Germany
• med. pract. Fabio Lanzi, Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, La Carità Hospital, Locarno, Switzerland

International Collaborations

   Metabolic markers and insulin resistance in critically ill patients undergoing cardiac surgery

• Prof. Linda J. Wykes, Director, School of Human Nutrition, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Medical nutrition therapy in intermediate and intensive care