
Fellow of the College of Intensive Care Medicine (FCICM)
European Diploma in Intensive Care Medicine (EDIC)
Diploma of the European Academy of Anaesthesiology (DEAA)
Specialist for Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Preclinical Emergency Medicine (Germany)
Conjoint Senior Lecturer University of NSW
Dr. med. (University of Goettingen)
Specialty |
Intensive Care Medicine |
Qualifications
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Fellow of the College of Intensive Care Medicine (FCICM) European Diploma in Intensive Care Medicine (EDIC) Diploma of the European Academy of Anaesthesiology (DEAA) Specialist for Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Preclinical Emergency Medicine (Germany) Conjoint Senior Lecturer University of NSW Dr. med. (University of Goettingen) |
Areas of Interest
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Intensive Care Medicine Extracorporeal Life Support ECMO |
Research
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Clinical lead research group at the Department of Intensive Care Medicine, St. Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney |
Latest Research Activity |
www.researchgate.net/profile/Hergen_Buscher
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Academic Appointments
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Conjoint Senior Lecturer University of NSW |
Biography |
I am working in the field of Intensive care and Anaesthesia since 1995. After qualifying as a Specialist in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care in Germany I moved to Australia in 2005 to complete the Australian qualification for Intensive Care Medicine in Westmead Hospital, Sydney before joining the team in St. Vincent’s as a Staff Specialist in 2008. |
Dr Hergen Buscher started his medical career in Intensive Care and Anaesthesia in 1994 in Germany. He defended his thesis on ‘Work of Breathing and Pressure-Time-Product in ICU Patients’ and was awarded an academic Doctor Degree (University of Göttingen). In the German academic system this is regarded as the first of two steps towards professorial honours (there is no PhD degree in Germany).
While working as an ECMO Fellow in Leicester, UK at the time of the CESAR trial, Dr Buscher became interested in extracorporeal life support (ECLS).
Since 2014, he is leading the intensive care research at St Vincent’s Hospital. One of the main focuses here is to further explore the critical care of patients with heart and lung transplantation, ventricular assist devices and ECLS. His main area of research interest centres around the blood management and anticoagulation during ECLS and the use of ECLS during cardiac arrest.
He became the principal investigator in 20 multi and single centre studies and represented Australia in the steering committee of the Extracorporeal Life Support Organisation (Asio-Pacific Chapter) from 2013-2017.
As member of the Sydney ECLS research group he participated in several multicentre studies on the use of ECLS during cardiac arrest. This included the prospective evaluation of its use and one of the first economic evaluations worldwide.
He participated successful in more than 10 grant applications for investigator-initiated studies, peer reviews for five scientific journals, published more than 30 original papers and was cited about 600 times. The current h-index is 16. Invited speaker at more than 20 national and international conferences.
First and senior author of original research (detailed information on ResearchGate):
My Teaching
Clinical and bedside teaching for final year students in the ICU
Regular lectures for phase 2 students on basics in critical care and resuscitation