Nikolaos (Nick) Skubas is the Chair of Enterprise Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesiology at Cleveland Clinic and a Professor of Anesthesiology at the Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, in Cleveland, Ohio.

Nikolaos Skubas has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and co-authored practice guidelines sponsored by the American Society of Echocardiography, the American College of Cardiology, and the American Heart Association. He is a co-editor of Savage & Aronson’s Comprehensive Textbook of Perioperative & Critical Care Transesophageal Echocardiography and serves as an Associate Editor for the journal
Anesthesiology.

He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the National Board of Echocardiography and chairs the Basic PTeXAM writing committee.

Program

Greetings
Markus Müller
Rector of Medical University of Vienna

Introductory remarks
Edda Tschernko
Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Medicine,
Clinical Division of Cardiac Thoracic Vascular Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine,
MedUni Vienna/University Hospital Vienna

Frailty in Cardiothoracic Patients: Facts, Fables and the Future
Nikolaos Skubas
Enterprise Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesiology,
Cleveland Clinic, USA

Discussion afterwards

Registration

Registration: htg@meduniwien.ac.at