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Physician profile
Prof. Dr. med. Sandra Kampe
Specialist in anaesthesiology · Emergency medicine · Intensive care medicine
Chief Physician, Anaesthesiology and Pain Therapy · Ruhrlandklinik, Westdeutsches Lungenzentrum am Universitätsklinikum Essen
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Profile summary and areas of expertise
Sandra Kampe is a specialist in anaesthesiology and, as Chief Physician, heads the Department of Anaesthesiology and Pain Therapy of Ruhrlandklinik, Westdeutsches Lungenzentrum am Universitätsklinikum Essen. Sandra Kampe is Director of the Centre for Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy at the South site of Universitätsmedizin Essen, comprising Ruhrlandklinik and St. Josef Krankenhaus Essen-Werden, and is one of the university teachers of the University Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Therapy at Universitätsmedizin Magdeburg. From 2019 to 2023, Sandra Kampe led the health services research project PEESURST on pain therapy after thoracic surgery, funded by the Innovation Committee at the Federal Joint Committee (Gemeinsamer Bundesausschuss).
- Anaesthesia in thoracic surgery
- Acute pain therapy after operations on the chest
- Health services research on chronic pain after thoracic surgery
Clinical work and institutions
St. Josef Krankenhaus Essen-Werden (MedVici profile of the institution)
Anästhesiologie, Intensivmedizin und Schmerztherapie
- currentDirector of the Centre for Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy at the South site of Universitätsmedizin Essen (Ruhrlandklinik and St. Josef Krankenhaus Essen-Werden)
Ruhrlandklinik, Westdeutsches Lungenzentrum am Universitätsklinikum Essen (MedVici profile of the institution)
Anästhesiologie und Schmerztherapie
- currentChief Physician, Anaesthesiology and Pain Therapy
- 2019–2023Consortium lead of the health services research project PEESURST (Innovation Committee at the Federal Joint Committee, Gemeinsamer Bundesausschuss)
Universitätsmedizin Magdeburg (MedVici profile of the institution)
Universitätsklinik für Anaesthesiologie und Intensivtherapie
- currentUniversity teacher (professor)
Universitätsklinikum Köln (MedVici profile of the institution)
Klinik für Anästhesiologie und Operative Intensivmedizin
- Clinical work
Qualifications and training
- Professor, Faculty of Medicine of Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
- Specialist in anaesthesiology
- Emergency medicine and intensive care medicine
- 1994Doctorate (Dr. med.), University of Münster
Publications, talks and media
Documented contributions directly related to Prof. Dr. med. Sandra Kampe, grouped by type and listed newest first within each type. Every title links to the original source.
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Doctoral thesis (1)
- Der Einfluss hypertoner Hydroxyäthylstärkelösung auf globale Gerinnungsparameter und Thrombozytenfunktion in der perioperativen Phase (original source, opens in a new window)
Dissertation, Universität Münster (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek)
Scientific publications (12)
- Bilateral lung volume reduction surgery outperforms the unilateral approach in functional improvement (original source, opens in a new window)
Interdisciplinary Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery (PubMed 39352787)
- Thoracic pain in patients with chronic interstitial lung disease – an underestimated symptom (original source, opens in a new window)
Frontiers in Medicine (PubMed 37215705)
- The pathological oral cavity as a preventable source of postoperative pneumonia in thoracic surgery: a prospective observational study (original source, opens in a new window)
Journal of Thoracic Disease (PubMed 35572897)
- Tracheal Resection after Previous Treatment Provides Comparable Outcome to Primary Surgery (original source, opens in a new window)
The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon (PubMed 34062598)
- Kasuistik: Suffiziente High-Frequency-Jet-Ventilation über 2,5 h – Atemwegsmanagement bei OP einer ausgedehnten ösophagotrachealen Fistel und Tracheateilresektion (original source, opens in a new window)
Anästhesiologie · Intensivmedizin · Notfallmedizin · Schmerztherapie (PubMed 27359233)
- The impact of epidural analgesia compared to systemic opioid-based analgesia with regard to length of hospital stay and recovery of bowel function: retrospective evaluation of 1555 patients undergoing thoracotomy (original source, opens in a new window)
Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery (PubMed 25417134)
- Minimal incidence of chronic and neuropathic postthoracotomy pain after anteroaxillary thoracotomy with consequent systemic pain therapy (original source, opens in a new window)
European Journal of Anaesthesiology (PubMed 24145805)
- Epidural analgesia is not superior to systemic postoperative analgesia with regard to preventing chronic or neuropathic pain after thoracotomy (original source, opens in a new window)
Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery (PubMed 23668669)
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