Prof Anders Perner

XXXVIth Edinburgh
Anaesthesia Festival
21-23 August 2024

Prof Anders Perner

Prof Anders Perner Anders Perner is a senior staff specialist and professor in intensive care at Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen and an honorary professor of the George Institute in Sydney. His main focus is on clinical research in critically ill patients and he chairs the Danish national Centre for Research in Intensive Care and the Scandinavian Critical Care Trials Group. He was the chair of two land-mark trials, the 6S and the TRISS trial, the results of which has improved the fluid and transfusion therapy of patients with sepsis. His ongoing research continues along this track testing frequent interventions given to critically ill patient for which there are doubts about the balance between benefit and harm. The ongoing clinical research programs include the CLASSIC, SUP-ICU, AID-ICU and HOT-ICU trials.