Journal of Pain & Relief
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Rolf Rossaint

Department of Anesthesiology, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Biography

Rolf Rossaint, full professor of Anesthesiology at the RWTH Aachen, has been publishing high quality studies dealing with the treatment of severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) for more than 20 years. He was the first to demonstrate that inhaled nitric oxide in patients suffering from ARDS caused a selective pulmonary vasodilation resulting in a decrease of pulmonary artery pressure and an increase in arterial oxygenation.

Publications

Support of Acute Pain Therapy by Analgesia Nociception Index in Post Anesthesia Care Unit: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Objective: Postoperative pain management requires a well-directed pain therapy. Generally, the assessment of pain intensity depends on a self-evaluated numeric rating scale (NRS, 0 to 10). Recently, a pain monitor using a socalled “ANI” (analgesia nociception index; 100 to 0) was introduced. The higher the ANI, the lower the pain intens... Read More»

Nadine Hochhausen, Monica Ritter, Andreas Follmann, Henriette Dohmeier, Rolf Rossaint and Michae Czaplik

: Pain Relief 2019, 8: 343

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