The Anesthesia Guide is written by specialist doctors in anesthesia & intensive care with many years of experience in anesthesia work. The facts in the handbook are gradually quality-checked by specialist doctors in anesthesia & intensive care at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg. The handbook is developed in collaboration with Mediahuset in Gothenburg.
Kai Knudsen, Senior Physician, University Lecturer at the Anesthesia Clinic, Sahlgrenska Hospital in Gothenburg, is the editor and main author of the content in the Anesthesia Guide. Knudsen has many years of clinical anesthesia experience and is the author of several textbooks in anesthesia, intensive care, and clinical toxicology.
Below are our authors of the various pages in the Anesthesia Guide.
Jan-Peter Bengtsson, MD, PhD, Former Senior Physician in Anesthesia and Intensive Care at Sahlgrenska Hospital in Gothenburg. Dr. Bengtsson has written the chapter on Inhalation Anesthesia – Narcosis.
Fredrik Bergman, Senior Physician in Anesthesia and Intensive Care at Sahlgrenska Hospital in Gothenburg. Dr. Bergman has written the chapter on Acute Liver Failure.
Johan Bjellvi, Senior Physician in Neurology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital. Dr. Bjellvi has written the chapter on the treatment of status epilepticus.
Francesca Campoccia Jalde, Senior Physician, TIVA Solna, Perioperative Medicine and Intensive Care, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm. Dr. Campoccia Jalde has written about respiratory failure and ventilator treatment in severe respiratory failure and severe Covid-19 infection.
Oskar Cavefors, Specialist in Anesthesia and Intensive Care at Sahlgrenska Hospital in Gothenburg. Dr. Cavefors has written the chapter on Ulcer Prophylaxis.
Keti Dalla, Senior Physician in Anesthesia and Intensive Care at Sahlgrenska Hospital in Mölndal. Dr. Dalla has written the chapter on Ultrasound Heart (Echocardiography).
Hanna Drougge, Specialist in Anesthesia and Intensive Care at Sahlgrenska Hospital in Gothenburg. Dr. Drougge has written the chapter on Hyponatremia.
Per Ederoth, Licensed Physician, Associate Professor, VO Thorax and Vascular, Skåne University Hospital, Lund. Dr. Ederoth has written about the treatment of severe cough in patients on ventilators.
Anders Enskog, MD, PhD, Senior Physician in Anesthesia and Intensive Care at Sahlgrenska Hospital in Gothenburg. Dr. Enskog has written the compendium on Dialysis and CRRT.
Karin Fryk, Specialist in Anesthesia and Intensive Care at Sahlgrenska Hospital in Gothenburg. Dr. Fryk has written the chapter Language Phrasebook for Anesthesia Terminology in the French Language.
Nick Gowing, Former Specialist in Anesthesia and Intensive Care at Sahlgrenska Hospital in Gothenburg. Dr. Gowing has written the chapter on Ultrasound of the Abdomen.
Mattias Gunter, Senior Physician in Anesthesia and Intensive Care at Södersjukhuset in Stockholm. Dr. Gunter has written the Pocket Guide on Dosing of Medications for Spinal Anesthesia.
Carl Hallgren, Specialist in Anesthesia and Intensive Care at Sahlgrenska Hospital in Gothenburg. Dr. Hallgren has written the chapter on Ultrasound of the Thorax and Lungs.
Mathias Hård av Segerstad, Specialist in Anesthesia and Intensive Care at Sahlgrenska Hospital in Gothenburg. Segerstad has written the table on Ketamine in Pain Treatment.
Alexandru Ille, Specialist in Anesthesia and Intensive Care at Sahlgrenska Hospital in Gothenburg. Dr. Ille has written the chapter on APRV during Ventilator Treatment.
Gunilla Islander, Senior Physician in Anesthesia & Intensive Care, MH Unit, Skåne University Hospital/Lund. Dr. Islander has written the chapter on Malignant Hyperthermia.
Klaus Kirnö, Senior Physician in Anesthesia and Intensive Care at the Thorax Section, Sahlgrenska Hospital in Gothenburg. Dr. Kirnö has written about anesthesia in lung surgery under the chapter Thorax Anesthesia. Kirnö has also written the chapter on anesthesia in GUCH, i.e., congenital heart defects.
Katalin Kiss, Senior Physician in Anesthesia and Intensive Care at Sahlgrenska Hospital in Gothenburg. Dr. Kiss has written the chapter on Perioperative Steroid Substitution with Cortisone Schedule.
Vitus Krumbholz, Senior Physician in Anesthesia and Intensive Care at Sahlgrenska Hospital in Gothenburg. Dr. Krumbholz has written the chapter on fine adjustments in the ventilator under the chapter Ventilator Treatment.
Sophie Lindgren, MD, PhD, Senior Physician at Sahlgrenska Hospital in Gothenburg and now Head of Operations for the Image and Intervention Center at the same hospital. Dr. Lindgren has written the chapter on Central Venous Access (CVC).
Ann-Charlotte Loswick, MD, PhD, Senior Physician in Anesthesia and Intensive Care at Sahlgrenska Hospital in Gothenburg. Dr. Loswick has written the chapter on Guidelines for Perioperative Care of Patients with Diabetes.
Pia Löwhagen, Senior Physician in Anesthesia and Intensive Care at Sahlgrenska Hospital in Gothenburg. Dr. Löwhagen has written the protocols on Brain Death Diagnosis.
Johan Malmgren, Senior Physician in Anesthesia and Intensive Care at Sahlgrenska Hospital in Gothenburg. Dr. Malmgren has written the table on Discontinuation Times of Anticoagulants before Spinal Anesthesia.
Carina Malmqvist, Specialist Nurse in Intensive Care at Sahlgrenska Hospital in Gothenburg. Nurse Carina Malmqvist has written the handbook for calculating the correct medication doses for children.
Claes-Roland Martling, Senior Physician, ICU Solna, Perioperative Medicine and Intensive Care, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm. Dr. Mårtensson has written the chapter on Dialysis and CRRT.
Patrik Martner, Specialist in Anesthesia and Intensive Care at Sahlgrenska Hospital in Gothenburg. Dr. Martner has written several excellent Pocket Guides in Anesthesia and Intensive Care. Dr. Martner has also written short pages on Obstetric Anesthesia.
Carlo Mucchiano, Senior Physician, Pain Unit, Högland Hospital, Eksjö has written the pocket guide on converting different opioid doses.
Johan Mårtensson, Senior Physician, ICU Solna, Perioperative Medicine and Intensive Care, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm. Dr. Mårtensson has written the chapter on Dialysis and CRRT.
Per Werner Möller, Senior Physician in Anesthesia and Intensive Care at Alingsås Hospital. Dr. Möller has written the chapter on Acid-Base Regulation.
Per Nellgård, MD, PhD, Senior Physician in Anesthesia and Intensive Care at Sahlgrenska Hospital in Gothenburg. Dr. Nellgård has written the chapter on Management of the Difficult Airway.
Andreas Nygren, Senior Physician in Anesthesia and Intensive Care at the Thorax Section, Sahlgrenska Hospital in Gothenburg. Dr. Nygren has written about anesthesia in coronary artery surgery under the chapter Thorax Anesthesia.
Helena Odenstedt Hergés, Senior Physician in Anesthesia and Intensive Care at Sahlgrenska Hospital in Gothenburg. Dr. Hergés has written the chapter on Neurointensive Care in Subarachnoid Hemorrhage and Neurointensive Care in Head Trauma.
Johan Petersson, Senior Physician, ICU Solna, Perioperative Medicine and Intensive Care, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm. Dr. Petersson has written about respiratory failure and ventilator treatment in severe respiratory failure and severe Covid-19 infection.
Jan Pålsson, MD, PhD, Former Senior Physician in Anesthesia and Intensive Care at Sahlgrenska Hospital in Gothenburg. Dr. Pålsson has written the chapter on Anesthesia with Desflurane.
Bengt Redfors, Senior Physician in Anesthesia and Intensive Care at the Thorax Section, Sahlgrenska Hospital in Gothenburg. Dr. Redfors has written about ECMO in advanced heart failure.
Sven-Erik Ricksten, Professor Emeritus in Anesthesia and Intensive Care at the Thorax Section, Sahlgrenska Hospital in Gothenburg. Dr. Ricksten has written about anesthesia in heart failure and perioperative care under the chapter Thorax Anesthesia. Ricksten has also written the chapter on anesthesia for the cardiac patient and various inotropic agents in circulatory failure.
Christian Rylander, Senior Physician in Anesthesia and Intensive Care at Akademiska Hospital in Uppsala, previously Sahlgrenska Hospital.
Christian Simonsberg, Pain Specialist, Psychiatrist, SU/Östra. Simonsberg has written the chapter on Opioids for Long-Term Non-Cancer Pain.
Linda Sjöholm and Eva Bengtsson, Specialist Nurses in Intensive Care at Sahlgrenska Hospital in Gothenburg. Nurses Sjöholm and Bengtsson have written the chapter on Considerations When Discharging Patients from ICU/Postop.
Magnus Snäckestrand, Senior Physician in Anesthesia and Intensive Care at Sahlgrenska Hospital in Gothenburg. Dr. Snäckestrand has written the nutrition calculator and parts of the nutrition chapter.
Kristina Svennerholm, MD, PhD, Senior Physician in Anesthesia and Intensive Care at Sahlgrenska Hospital in Gothenburg. Dr. Svennerholm has written the compendium on Dialysis and CRRT.
Noémi Szabó-Némedi, Specialist in Anesthesia and Intensive Care at Sahlgrenska Hospital in Gothenburg. Dr. Szabó-Némedi has written the chapter on APRV during Ventilator Treatment.
Fredrik Söderlund, Senior Physician in Anesthesia and Intensive Care at the Children’s Hospital DSBUS in Gothenburg. Dr. Söderlund has written practical advice on pediatric anesthesia and ventilator treatment for children.
Johan Wersäll, Specialist Physician in Anesthesia and Intensive Care at Sahlgrenska Hospital in Gothenburg. Wersäll has written the chapter on the Treatment of Diabetic Ketoacidosis.
Bengt Widgren, Former Senior Physician at the Medical Clinic Emergency Department, Sahlgrenska Hospital. Dr. Widgren has written the chapter on Triage.
Ellinor Wisén, Senior Physician in Anesthesia and Intensive Care at Sahlgrenska Hospital in Gothenburg. Dr. Wisén has written about suprazygomatic maxillary blockade under the chapter on Regional Anesthesia.
Carl Öhman, Former Senior Physician in Anesthesia and Intensive Care at Södra Älvsborg Hospital in Borås. Dr. Öhman has written the chapter on Intravenous Anesthesia.
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