Institution: Krankenhaus Nordwest, Frankfurt a. M., Germany

Specialty: Anesthesiology

Academic Affiliations:

• University of Frankfurt a. M.

Brief Resume:

• Graduated from Université Libre de Bruxelles in 1999
• Head of the Anesthesiology department at the Krankenhaus Nordwest, Frankfurt a. M. since 2006
• Member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts since 2014
• Involved in the development of patient blood management concepts targeting in the reduction of perioperative allogeneic blood transfusion; acute normovolemic hemodilution (ANH); intraoperative blood salvage and autotransfusion („cell-salvage“); identification of the optimal transfusion threshold; therapeutic increase of anemia tolerance; hyperoxic hemodilution; artificial oxygen carriers (haemoglobin-based artificial oxygen carriers HBOC, perfluorocarbons), reduction of perioperative blood losses by an early goal directed differentiated coagulation management, avoidance of allogeneic plasma transfusion.

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