Clinic for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care
- Prof. Dr. med. Jürgen Peters
Director: | Prof. Dr. med. Juergen Peters |
Office: | Marie Seifert |
Phone: | +49 (0) 201 / 723-14 00 |
Fax: | +49 (0) 201 / 723-59 49 |
Deputy Director: | Prof. Dr. med. Matthias Hartmann |
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OA Intensivstation: | Dr. med. Frank Herbstreit |
Facts and Figures:
Percentage of intensive care patients on ventilators: 89%
Patients with severe ARDS: 37
Patients receiving ECMO therapy: 20
Patients post-liver transplant: 18
Post-operative patients with PCA pumps: 625, with approximately 5,340 patient interactions
Inpatients with chronic pain: 386, with a total of 571 patient interactions
Focus areas:
The Clinic for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care provides all of the anesthesia required at Essen University Hospital, be it for surgical or diagnostic procedures. The clinic also supervises several post-anesthetic recovery areas. In addition, the clinic provides all anesthesiology needs on a consulting basis to a regional psychiatric clinic (Rheinische Landes- und Hochschulklinik für Psychiatrie). Across all surgical clinics, 26,000 anesthetic procedures are carried out annually, many of them involving high-risk patients.
Focus areas are the anesthesiologist-led intensive care unit in which a physician is present 24 hours a day, one stationary and one mobile ECMO unit (artificial lungs) for the treatment of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) including intensive care transportation capabilities (available 24 hours a day) and both transesophageal (TEE) and transthoracic (TTE) echocardiography.
Special consultations:
Anesthesiologic outpatient pain clinic
Dr. med. Daniel Dirkmann
Phone: +49 (0) 201-723-2010
Number of patients:
Intensive care patients: 800 treated cases
Outpatients: 2,400 interactions
Anesthesias: approx. 23,000
Staff:
The Clinic for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care employs 73 physicians, 31 of whom are anesthesiology specialists. Of these specialists, 13 hold additional qualifications in special intensive medicine, 3 in special pain therapies, 2 in medical quality management, and 8 are qualified as heads of emergency medicine. Additional qualifications in emergency medicine are held by 12 physicians.
The physicians' team is complemented by 89 nurses, 66% of whom have advanced specialized training in the clinic's fields.