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Switzerland
2023

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Medicine

D-Index
104
Citations
42932
World Ranking
7014
National Ranking
96

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Donat R. Spahn is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland and is active in the field of Medicine, with a particular focus on Surgery, Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Biochemistry, and Hematology. Their academic work spans several subfields with a significant emphasis on topics related to trauma, blood management, and patient monitoring.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Trauma, Hemostasis, Coagulopathy, Resuscitation
  • Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
  • Blood transfusion and management
  • Healthcare Technology and Patient Monitoring
  • Hemodynamic Monitoring and Therapy
  • Blood donation and transfusion practices
  • Iron Metabolism and Disorders

Frequent publication venues for Donat R. Spahn include:

  • British Journal of Anaesthesia
  • Anaesthesia
  • Diagnostics
  • Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • Journal of Clinical Medicine

They have collaborated extensively with several co-authors, notably:

  • David W. Tscholl
  • Julia Braun
  • Tadzio R. Roche
  • Christoph B. Nöthiger
  • Alexander Kaserer

Recent publications by Donat R. Spahn include:

  • The European guideline on management of major bleeding and coagulopathy following trauma: sixth edition, 2023, Critical Care
  • Essential Role of Patient Blood Management in a Pandemic: A Call for Action, 2020, Anesthesia & Analgesia
  • Validation of the Raw National Aeronautics and Space Administration Task Load Index (NASA-TLX) Questionnaire to Assess Perceived Workload in Patient Monitoring Tasks: Pooled Analysis Study Using Mixed Models, 2020, Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • Recommendations From the International Consensus Conference on Anemia Management in Surgical Patients (ICCAMS), 2022, Annals of Surgery
  • Patient blood management during the COVID-19 pandemic: a narrative review, 2020, Anaesthesia

Best Publications

  • The European guideline on management of major bleeding and coagulopathy following trauma: fourth edition

    Rolf Rossaint;Bertil Bouillon;Vladimir Cerny;Timothy J. Coats

  • Preoperative anaemia and postoperative outcomes in non-cardiac surgery: a retrospective cohort study

    Khaled M Musallam;Khaled M Musallam;Hani M Tamim;Hani M Tamim;Toby Richards;Donat R Spahn

  • Management of bleeding and coagulopathy following major trauma: an updated European guideline

    Donat R. Spahn;Bertil Bouillon;Vladimir Cerny;Timothy J Coats

  • Management of bleeding following major trauma: an updated European guideline

    Rolf Rossaint;Bertil Bouillon;Vladimir Cerny;Timothy J. Coats

  • Activity-based costs of blood transfusions in surgical patients at four hospitals

    Aryeh Shander;Axel Hofmann;Sherri Ozawa;Oliver M. Theusinger

  • Anemia and patient blood management in hip and knee surgery: a systematic review of the literature.

    Donat R. Spahn

  • International consensus statement on the peri-operative management of anaemia and iron deficiency.

    M Muñoz;Austin G Acheson;M Auerbach;M Besser

  • Management of bleeding following major trauma: a European guideline.

    Donat R Spahn;Vladimir Cerny;Timothy J Coats;Jacques Duranteau

  • Morbid obesity and postoperative pulmonary atelectasis: an underestimated problem.

    A. S. Eichenberger;S. Proietti;S. Wicky;P. Frascarolo

  • Red blood cell transfusion in clinical practice

    Harvey G Klein;Donat R Spahn;Jeffrey L Carson

  • Preconditioning by sevoflurane decreases biochemical markers for myocardial and renal dysfunction in coronary artery bypass graft surgery: a double-blinded, placebo-controlled, multicenter study.

    Karine Julier;Rafaela da Silva;Carlos Garcia;Lukas Bestmann

  • Iron deficiency across chronic inflammatory conditions: International expert opinion on definition, diagnosis, and management

    Maria Domenica Cappellini;Josep Comin-Colet;Angel de Francisco;Axel Dignass

  • Effects of allogeneic red blood cell transfusions on clinical outcomes in patients undergoing colorectal cancer surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Austin G. Acheson;Matthew J. Brookes;Matthew J. Brookes;Donat R. Spahn

  • New concepts of atelectasis during general anaesthesia

    L Magnusson;D.R. Spahn

  • Perioperative antiplatelet therapy: the case for continuing therapy in patients at risk of myocardial infarction

    Pierre Guy Chassot;A. Delabays;D. R. Spahn

  • Volatile anesthetics mimic cardiac preconditioning by priming the activation of mitochondrial K(ATP) channels via multiple signaling pathways.

    Michael Zaugg;Eliana Lucchinetti;Donat R. Spahn;Thomas Pasch

  • Patient blood management in Europe

    A. Shander;H. van Aken;M. Colomina;H. Gombotz

  • Coagulopathy and blood component transfusion in trauma

    D.R. Spahn;R. Rossaint

  • Eliminating blood transfusions: new aspects and perspectives.

    Donat R. Spahn;Mattias Casutt

  • Clinical review: Prothrombin complex concentrates - evaluation of safety and thrombogenicity

    Benny Sørensen;Donat R Spahn;Petra Innerhofer;Michael Spannagl

Frequent Co-Authors

Burkhardt Seifert
Burkhardt Seifert University of Zurich
Rolf Rossaint
Rolf Rossaint RWTH Aachen University
Gudela Grote
Gudela Grote ETH Zurich
Walter Weder
Walter Weder University of Zurich
Jean Louis Vincent
Jean Louis Vincent Université Libre de Bruxelles
Beverley J. Hunt
Beverley J. Hunt Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Edmund Neugebauer
Edmund Neugebauer Witten/Herdecke University
Lawrence T. Goodnough
Lawrence T. Goodnough Stanford University
Philip F. Stahel
Philip F. Stahel University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Tanja Manser
Tanja Manser University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland

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