
Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Medicine (Division of General Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine)
Position: Professor
ORCID: 0000-0002-6683-9584
T +43 1 40400-41020
aai@meduniwien.ac.at
Keywords
Anesthesia; Critical Care; Critical Illness; Early Ambulation; Frail Elderly; Muscle, Skeletal; Palliative Care
Research interests
Critical illness with a focus on skeletal muscle, including VIDD, early rehabilitation, and PICS (post intensive care syndrome), as well as prehabilitation and frailty in the perioperative setting.
Techniques, methods & infrastructure
- Clinical Trials
- Observational studies
- Animal research
- Metanalysis
Infrastructure: The largest anesthesia & intensive care division in Austria. Has lab facilities for basic and translational research available.
Selected publications
- Schaller, S.J. et al. (2016) ‘Early, goal-directed mobilisation in the surgical intensive care unit: a randomised controlled trial’, The Lancet, 388(10052), pp. 1377–1388. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(16)31637-3.
- (2022) ‘Early Active Mobilization during Mechanical Ventilation in the ICU’, New England Journal of Medicine, 387(19), pp. 1747–1758. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa2209083.
- Muessig, J.M. et al. (2018) ‘Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) reliably stratifies octogenarians in German ICUs: a multicentre prospective cohort study’, BMC Geriatrics, 18(1). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-018-0847-7.
- Schaller, S.J. et al. (2019) ‘Influence of the initial level of consciousness on early, goal-directed mobilization: a post hoc analysis’, Intensive Care Medicine, 45(2), pp. 201–210. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-019-05528-x.
- Schaller, S.J. et al. (2016) ‘The German Validation Study of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit Optimal Mobility Score’, Journal of Critical Care, 32, pp. 201–206. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrc.2015.12.020.