Manuel Ortega M.D.

Anesthetist, fully certified by ESAIC, with 9 years of clinical experience. Recently relocated to Zurich for career development. Broad scientific interest beyond clinical practice.

Design and Interpretation of Clinical Trials, Johns Hopkins University.

Clinical features, ventilatory management, and outcome of ARDS caused by COVID-19 are similar to other causes of ARDS Ferrando et al. Intensive Care Med 2020 COVID19 Spanish ICU Network 

Effects of oxygen on post-surgical infections during an individualised perioperative open-lung ventilatory strategy: a randomised controlled trial Ferrando et al. British Journal of Anaesthesia 2020 Jan. iPROVE-O2 Network. Collaborator. 

Rationale and study design for an individualised perioperative open-lung ventilatory strategy with a high versus conventional inspiratory oxygen fraction (iPROVE-O2) and its effects on surgical site infection: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial Ferrando et al. BMJ Open. 2017 Jul. iPROVE- O2 Network. Collaborator 

Manual in Anesthesiology and perioperative medicine in Thoracic Surgery Chapter 88: Percutaneous tracheostomy. Ed Ergon 2017 

Perioperative infections manual. Chapter 32: Necrotizing mediastinitis due to group A beta-hemolytic Streptococcus after total thyroidectomy. Ed Ergon 2017 

Dexmedetomidine in Ultrafastrack protocol for cardiac surgery. XXXIV Spanish Anesthesiology Congress. SEDAR 2019. 

Comparison of 4 scores (ASA, Charlson, POSSUM y Surgical Apgar Score) in the identification of high risk patients for mayor abdominal surgery. XXXIII Spanish National Congress of Anesthesiology. SEDAR 2017