Research Focus

Cardiovascular & Perioperative Medicine

Area of Research

Perioperative cardiac biomarkers/Perioperative cardiac risk stratification
Perioperative coagulation disorders/Patient blood management
Perioperative echocardiography

National PI for the METREPAIR study (international multicenter study)

Local Co-PI for Copeptin Study (international two-center study)

Evaluation of PBM in hip surgery (senior investigator)

National Collaborations

• Prof. C. Müller (CRIB, University Hospital Basel)
• Prof. A. Buser (Regional Blood Services, Basel)
• Prof. M. Siegemund (Intensive Care Unit, University Hospital Basel)
• Prof. O. Pfister (Cardiology, University Hospital Basel)
• Prof. L. Bonati (Stroke Unit, University Hospital Basel)
• PD Dr. G. Erdös (Department of Cardiac Anesthesiology, University Hospital Berne, Switzerland)
• Prof. B. Walder (Anesthesiology, Hospital Universitaire Geneve (HUG))

International Collaborations

• PD Giovanna Lurati (University Hospital Düsseldorf, Germany)
• Prof. K.A. Tanaka (Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospital Baltimore, Maryland, USA)
• Prof. P. Wouters (Cardiac Anesthesia, University Hospital Ghent, Belgium)
• Prof. D. Mazer (Department of Anesthsia, St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto)

• Perioperative high-sensitivity troponin screening in patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery (together with Prof. Ch. Müller)
• TRICS-III extended (long-term follow-up of TRICS-III trial)
• ROTEM in cardiac surgery
• Fentanyl in cardiac surgery (evaluation of opioid-induced hyperalgesia with different doses and regimens of intraoperative fentanyl)