Ayse Karci
Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey
Keynote: Surgery Curr Res
Patients who are hyperglycemic following surgery or trauma have worse functional recovery and increased mortality rates. In surgical patients, perioperative hyperglycemia which is often observed, inreases risk of cardiovascular, respiratory, neurologic, and infectious morbidity and it is often undiagnosed. Anesthesiologists as a member of the operating theatres help in identification of diabetic (or hyperglycemic) patients and initiate their treatment intraoperatively. Additionally Intensive insulin therapy (IIT) has been shown to reduce : �?� Morbidity and mortality among the critically ill, �?� Decrease infection rates �?� Improve survival after cardiac surgery, improve outcomes in acute neurologic injury and acute myocardial infarction. However, there has been considerable controversy over the safety and efficacy of IIT. Anesthesiologists wish to keep intra- and postoperative glucose levels somewhere between intensive control and overt hyperglycemia and additionally avoid hypoglycemia.
Ayse Karci has completed her medical education at Ege University, Turkey and was specialized in Anesthesiology in Dokuz Eylul University School of Medicine. She is still working in the same hospital as an Associate Professor. She has worked in the Department of Obstetrics and Labor Unit as Anesthesiologist and was also the Director of School of Anesthesia Technicians for six years. She has 16 publications in reputed journals and 29 Turkish papers in the field of Anesthesia.
Email: ayse.karci@gmail.com
