Division of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

Anaesthetics enables care and treatment of critically ill patients. At the Division of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, our research and education focus on peri-operative and intensive care.

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The academic unit is closely linked to the clinical department of Perioperative Medicine and Intensive Care (PMI) at Karolinska University Hospital in Flemingsberg. The patients we treat need anaesthesia and pain control to undergo advanced surgery or are treated in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for critical illness often accompanied by organ failure.

Our research is driven by clinical problems and questions around advanced surgery and in the critically ill. Current research aims to improve understanding of circulatory and metabolic stress during critical care and surgery, develop advanced risk analysis in aged surgical and ICU patients and improve patient’s safety by studying the effects of different pedagogic approaches.

Our education is at the basic, advanced and research level and involves the training of medical students, specialist, specialist nurses and PhD students. We are involved in the basic training but also have specialist courses.

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About us

The Division of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care is led by Professor Olav Rooyackers who is also Head of Unit at the clinical research unit PMI Huddinge.

Organisation

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Olav Rooijackers

Professor

Wilma Jägerström

Administrator
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Åke Norberg

Affiliated to Teaching/Tutoring
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Sigridur Kalman

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Jan Wernerman

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Address

Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology
Division of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, K 32
Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge
SE-141 86 Stockholm
Sweden

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Publications

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Staff and contact

Head of Division

All members of the group

Visiting address

Karolinska Institutet, Institutionen för klinisk vetenskap, intervention och teknik, enheten för anestesi och intensivvård, K 32, Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset, Huddinge, Stockholm, 141 86, Sweden

Postal address

Karolinska Institutet, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Division of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, K 32, Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, Stockholm, 14186, Sweden

Research at the division

Our research is based on clinical questions around complicated peri-operative care of patients mostly undergoing major surgery and patients that are critically ill and treated in the ICU. 

We address these questions using different approaches, from very basic laboratory based projects to intervention studies focusing on patient centered outcomes. The research is performed in close collaboration of basic scientist, clinicians, nurses and students. 

We have access to a clinical research center together with the clinical department of Perioperative Medicine and Intensive Care (PMI) at Karolinska University Hospital in Flemingsberg. This center consists of a small laboratory close to the clinic for sample handling and storage, a clinical room for performing studies on patients and volunteers and a fully equipped analytical lab. These facilities are staffed by two research nurses and trained laboratory personnel. 

During the last 20 years, a total of 41 dissertations have been successfully defended at our unit. The research is organized in 3 larger research cluster and several smaller research projects that are outlined below.

Research facilities

A laboratory room at B45

This room is mainly used for blood sample handling

A study room at B45

This room is used for studies including patients or volunteers. For use and booking contact Olav Rooyackers or one of the research nurses

KFC – metabolomics lab 

Located at ANA Futura. This is an analytical laboratory that is fully equipped for different kind of analyses. For visits or request for analytical help please contact Olav Rooyackers.

Research clusters and projects, PhD-students and Thesis

Thesis

Thesis

Thesis from 2010 and onwards.

Education at the division

Medicine Program

The focus of the program during semester 7 "Clinical medicine - targeting surgery" is to learn to recognize threats to vital functions, initially handle care for failing vital functions, to inform and optimize a patient for surgery and to plan a perioperative course of fluid substitution and pain relief.

The student-chosen course during semester 7, "When everything fails!" Focuses on intensive care and provides a deeper understanding of the knowledge about taking care of failures in vital functions.

The student-chosen course during semester 11, "Applied physiology in acute conditions", has the physiology at the center with a focus on how it can be measured and described.

Doctoral education

The doctoral education is conducted both by adopting doctoral students and supervising them for public defense and by providing postgraduate courses in Research Ethics and Science Theory with examiner Sigga Kalman.