Heart and Thoracic Surgery
Main Focus
Open heart surgery (bypass surgery, correction of acquired and congenital cardiac vitals in adults, cardiac tumors, aortic surgery, with and without heart-lung machine/ DHCA), thoracic and lung surgery , tracheo/bronchoscopy with rigid and flexible instrument, rhythm surgery (pacemaker and defibrillator therapy).
Technic
Anesthesia devices: Zeus (Infinity empowerd) from the company Dräger, Monsoon from the company Acutronic
Routinely used monitoring: arterial blood pressure measurement, continuous non-invasive blood pressure measurement, central venous catheters, transesophageal echocardiography, PICCO, pulmonary artery catheters, INVOS
Research
Physiology and pathophysiology of one-lung ventilation (in cooperation with Uppsala University, Sweden).
Pharmacokinetics of volatile anesthetics (in cooperation with Uppsala University, Sweden).
Anesthesia procedures for rhythm surgery and implantation of cardiac assist devices