Dr. Berthold Bein

Dr. Berthold Bein is a Professor of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine and Head of the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine at the Asklepios Hospital St. Georg in Hamburg, Germany. The hospital hosts the German branch of the Semmelweis University in Budapest, Hungary, and Dr. Bein is regularly lecturing and teaching students.

Dr. Bein has special expertise in the fields of cardiothoracic, vascular and trauma anesthesia, and emergency medicine. His scientific interests are the prevention of perioperative hypothermia, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, evaluating monitoring devices, cardiovascular drugs, muscle relaxants, depth of anesthesia monitors, anesthetic preconditioning, patient blood management, and airway devices.

Dr. Bein has co-authored an interdisciplinary, multi-national guideline on the prevention of inadvertent perioperative hypothermia. He has published over 325 peer-reviewed manuscripts.