Manfred Seeberger

Leitender Arzt Herz-/Thorax-Anästhesie, Universitätskliniken Basel, Switzerland

Research interests: Perioperative cardiac risk: detection of perioperative ischemia; strategies to reduce perioperative cardiac morbidity and mortality. Effects of anesthetics on cardiac function and outcome.

Activities in Professional Societies:
Examiner for the Swiss Diploma in Anaesthesiology (1995 - present).
Member (1995 - 2000) and president (2000 - present) of the Task Force ‘Transesophageal Echocardiograpy' of the Swiss Society of Anesthesia and Resuscitation.
Swiss Representative in the European Association of Cardiothoracic Anaesthesiologists (2002 - present).
Member of the TEE Accreditation Committee of the European Association of Echocardiography and the European Association of Cardiothoracic Anaesthesiologists (2004 - present)

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Faculty Member: Anesthesiology & Pain Management > Cardiovascular Medicine in Anesthesia: Clinical Science (since 14 November 2005)

Links

http://www.anaesthesie.ch/

All recent recommendations

• 3.0
  Clinical outcome after surgical correction of mitral regurgitation due to papillary muscle rupture.
  Recommended by Manfred Seeberger
  
• 3.0
  Hyperglycemia predicts mortality after CABG: postoperative hyperglycemia predicts dramatic increases in mortality after coronary artery bypass graft surgery.
  Recommended by Manfred Seeberger
  
• 11.5
  Anesthesia awareness and the bispectral index.
  Recommended by Vesna Jevtovic-Todorovic, Philippa Newfield, Beverley Orser, Emery Brown, Harald Groeben, Benedikt Pannen, Manfred Seeberger, Alain Borgeat, Lynda Wells, Dhanesh Gupta, Alex Sia with Serene Leo, Paul Barash, Michael O'Connor, Masahiko Kawaguchi
  Dissent by Albert Dahan with Elise Sarton, Ville Jantti with Seppo Alahuhta
• 3.0
  Deterioration of regional wall motion immediately after coronary artery bypass graft surgery is associated with long-term major adverse cardiac events.
  Recommended by Manfred Seeberger
  
• 3.0
  Serial angioscopic evidence of incomplete neointimal coverage after sirolimus-eluting stent implantation: comparison with bare-metal stents.
  Recommended by Manfred Seeberger
  
• 8.9
  Avoidance of nitrous oxide for patients undergoing major surgery: a randomized controlled trial.
  Recommended by Alan Merry, John Robert Sneyd, Mark Hamilton, Anne Lynn, Manfred Seeberger, Nigel Webster, John Laffey, Mark Nunnally
  Dissent by Marek Mirski
• 3.0
  Neurological complications after regional anesthesia: contemporary estimates of risk.
  Recommended by Manfred Seeberger
  
• 4.8
  The impact of postoperative discontinuation or continuation of chronic statin therapy on cardiac outcome after major vascular surgery.
  Recommended by Manfred Seeberger, Simon Howell with Andrew Pollard
  
• 6.5
  Optimal medical therapy with or without PCI for stable coronary disease.
  Recommended by Harold Dauerman, Philip Poole-Wilson, Manfred Seeberger
  
• 6.0
  Improved postoperative outcomes associated with preoperative statin therapy.
  Recommended by Manfred Seeberger
  
• 4.9
  Coronary artery stenting and non-cardiac surgery--a prospective outcome study.
  Recommended by Manfred Seeberger, Judy Kersten, Mark Hamilton
  
• 3.0
  Influence of perioperative blood glucose levels on outcome after infrainguinal bypass surgery in patients with diabetes.
  Recommended by Manfred Seeberger
  
• 6.9
  The risk associated with aprotinin in cardiac surgery.
  Recommended by Andrew Davenport, Manfred Seeberger, Anneke Brand, Philippe de Moerloose, Chris Prowse
  Dissent by Neil Blumberg