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CV Hans Flaatten 20025130 January 2014
CV: Hans Flaatten
Born 20-02-1951, Oslo,
Cand. Med University of Oslo 1977,
Specialty of Anesthesia and Intensive care (Norwegianauthorization) 1985
Clinical work:
Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care at Central Hospital, Førde, and Haukeland University Hospital 1986-1993
Medical leader, The Air-Ambulance, Bergen 1990-1994.
Medical Director, General ICU, Haukeland University Hospital 1994-2014
Senior consultant, General ICU, Haukeland University Hospital 2014-
Academic work:
PhD (Dr. Med) at University of Bergen (UiB[1]) 1998 (Post-dural puncture headache)
Reader (lecturer) at UiB 1995-2004
Professor II, UiB, Intensive care medicine: 2++4 to present
Visiting scholar, Chinese University Hong Kong 2013 (6 months)
Supervision at PhD-level
PhD-students previously completed as main supervisor: 4
- Cand Med Reidar Kvåle: UiB 2004
- Cand Med Atle Ulvik: UiB 2008
- Cand Med Johan Torgersen: UiB 2011
- Cand Med Kristian Strand: UiB 2011
- Cand Med Ib Jammer: UiB 2015 (co-supervisor)
PhD-students presently under supervision as main- or co-supervisor: 3
Present position:
Senior consultant, ICU, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen Norway (from 2014)
Professor II (UiB, from 2004)
List of the most important affiliation in academic and professional committees, awards, scientific review work including peer-review, dissemination activities, and other professional merits the last 10 years:
-Chair Division of Professional Development, ESICM [2] * 2008-2010
-Chair Clinical Training Committee, ESICM 2010-2014
-Chair section of Outcome research ESICM 2014-2017
-Executive committee member in ESICM 2008-2010
-Board director: Norwegian Registry of Intensive Care (NIR) 1999-onward
-Congress president SSAI [3] 2011 (2009-2011)
-Opponent in doctoral thesis (PhD) in Finland (2), Denmark (4) and Norway (4)
-Associate editor, Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica; 2005- onward
-Editorial board: ICU management; 2006 - onward
-Regular peer-review for Intensive Care Medicine, Critical Care Medicine , Critical Care and Chest
-Responsible for the European Diploma of Intensive Care Medicine (EDIC), part 1 (MCQ exam) and part 2 (clinical exam) since 2006-ongoing. From 2011 also organizing EDIC 1 in Bergen annually.
-Founder of the Norwegian Registry of Intensive Care (national registry) 1999.
-Co-founder and Norwegian coordinator of the SSAI training program for Intensive Care Medicine 1998 – ongoing
-Member of the BASIC[4] steering group, 2009-onward.BASIC is an international educational group with center in Hong Kong with he aim to spread knowledge of Intensive Care by the dissemination of standardized training courses (Founder Professor Charles Gomersall)
-Editor of Organisation and Management of Intensive care MWV 2010 ISBN 978-3-941468-27-6
Publications
Detailed information about all (lifetime) publications can be viewed at ResearchGate:
Publications (PubMed) last 5 years: 2010-2014
- Number of publications in peer-reviewed journals 34
- Number of review articles and book chapters: 8
- Total career publications (abstracts excluded)121
Awards:
- 1993: Astra prisen (Award) Norwegian Society of Anaesthesiologists
- 1998: Bjørn Ibsen award (Danish Society of Anaesthesiologists)
- 2012: Helse Vest Quality award (Kvalitetspris)
- 2013: Honorary award Norwegian Society of Anaesthesiologists
Current academic activities:
- Supervising research about theeffects implementing surgical check-lists in Helse Vest
- Research about cognitive effects from on-call of Anesthesiologists and Gynecologists
- Clinical research about sepsis and necrotizing fasciitis (supervisor)
- Research about errors leading to death in Norwegian hospitals
- Work with the development of new curriculum at the Faculty of Medicine at UiB (member of the faculty project group)
- Continue to develop educational courses with the BASIC collaboration
- Research about burn-out in intensivists (ESICM collaboration)
- Research about outcome after major surgery (supervisor)
- Editor of a textbook: Quality Management in Intensive Care, Cambridge University Press
Bergen 01-01-2015
Hans Flaatten
List of 10 publications from last 5 years: (selection)
Cognitive function and health-related quality of life four years after cardiac arrest.
Buanes EA, Gramstad A, Søvig KK, Hufthammer KO, Flaatten H, Husby T, Langørgen J, Heltne JK.
Resuscitation. 2015 Jan 14. pii: S0300-9572(15)00002-7. doi:
10.1016/j.resuscitation.2014.12.021. [Epub ahead of print]
Impact of night shifts on laparoscopic skills and cognitive function among gynecologists.
Veddeng A, Husby T, Engelsen IB, Kent A, Flaatten H.
Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand. 2014 Dec;93(12):1255-61. doi: 10.1111/aogs.12496. Epub 2014 Sep 30.
A calibration study of SAPS II with Norwegian intensive care registry data.
Haaland OA, Lindemark F, Flaatten H, Kvåle R, Johansson KA.
Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. 2014 Jul;58(6):701-8. doi: 10.1111/aas.12327. Epub 2014 May 12.
The impact of age in intensive care.
Flaatten H.
Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. 2014 Jan;58(1):3-4. doi: 10.1111/aas.12221. No abstract available.
The variability of critical care bed numbers in Europe.
Rhodes A, Ferdinande P, Flaatten H, Guidet B, Metnitz PG, Moreno RP.
Intensive Care Med. 2012 Oct;38(10):1647-53. Epub 2012 Jul 10.
The present use of quality indicators in the intensive care unit.
Flaatten H.
Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. 2012 Oct;56(9):1078-83. doi: 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2012.02656.x. Epub 2012 Feb 16. Review
Prospectively defined indicators to improve the safety and quality of care for critically ill patients: a report from the Task Force on Safety and Quality of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM).
Rhodes A, Moreno RP, Azoulay E, Capuzzo M, Chiche JD, Eddleston J, Endacott R, Ferdinande P, Flaatten H, Guidet B, Kuhlen R, León-Gil C, Martin Delgado MC, Metnitz PG, Soares M, Sprung CL, Timsit JF, Valentin A; Task Force on Safety and Quality of European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM).
Intensive Care Med. 2012 Apr;38(4):598-605. doi: 10.1007/s00134-011-2462-3. Epub 2012 Jan 26.
Cognitive impairments after critical illness.
Torgersen J, Hole JF, Kvåle R, Wentzel-Larsen T, Flaatten H.
Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. 2011 Oct;55(9):1044-51. doi: 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2011.02500.x. Epub 2011 Sep 8.
Variations in the length of stay of intensive care unit nonsurvivors in three Scandinavian countries.
Strand K, Walther SM, Reinikainen M, Ala-Kokko T, Nolin T, Martner J, Mussalo P, Søreide E, Flaatten HK.
Crit Care. 2010;14(5):R175. doi: 10.1186/cc9279. Epub 2010 Oct 4.
The interrater reliability of SAPS II and SAPS 3.
Strand K, Strand LI, Flaatten H.
Intensive Care Med. 2010 May;36(5):850-3. doi: 10.1007/s00134-010-1772-1. Epub 2010 Feb 4.
Addendum: List of publications Hans Flaatten 2010-2014 (from PubMed): 36 publications
1: Veddeng A, Husby T, Engelsen IB, Kent A, Flaatten H. Impact of night shifts on
laparoscopic skills and cognitive function among gynecologists. Acta Obstet
Gynecol Scand. 2014 Dec;93(12):1255-61. doi: 10.1111/aogs.12496. Epub 2014 Sep
30. PubMed PMID: 25178160.
2: Mæhle K, Haug B, Flaatten H, Nielsen E. Metabolic alkalosis is the most common
acid-base disorder in ICU patients. Crit Care. 2014 Mar 28;18(2):420. doi:
10.1186/cc13802. PubMed PMID: 25001067; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4056091.
3: Haaland OA, Lindemark F, Flaatten H, Kvåle R, Johansson KA. A calibration
study of SAPS II with Norwegian intensive care registry data. Acta Anaesthesiol
Scand. 2014 Jul;58(6):701-8. doi: 10.1111/aas.12327. Epub 2014 May 12. PubMed
PMID: 24819749; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4223997.
4: Vincent JL, Marshall JC, Namendys-Silva SA, François B, Martin-Loeches I,
Lipman J, Reinhart K, Antonelli M, Pickkers P, Njimi H, Jimenez E, Sakr Y; ICON
investigators. Assessment of the worldwide burden of critical illness: the
intensive care over nations (ICON) audit. Lancet Respir Med. 2014 May;2(5):380-6.
doi: 10.1016/S2213-2600(14)70061-X. Epub 2014 Apr 14. PubMed PMID: 24740011.
5: Nygård ST, Langeland N, Flaatten HK, Fanebust R, Haugen O, Skrede S.
Aetiology, antimicrobial therapy and outcome of patients with community acquired
severe sepsis: a prospective study in a Norwegian university hospital. BMC Infect
Dis. 2014 Mar 4;14:121. doi: 10.1186/1471-2334-14-121. PubMed PMID: 24588984;
PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3975934.
6: Flaatten H. The impact of age in intensive care. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. 2014
Jan;58(1):3-4. doi: 10.1111/aas.12221. PubMed PMID: 24341691.
7: Flaatten H. [Metabolic acidosis--not always easy]. Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen.
2013 Dec 10;133(23-24):2487-8. doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.13.1164. Norwegian. PubMed
PMID: 24326500.
8: Husby T, Torgersen J, Flaatten H. Cognitive effects of hospital calls in
anaesthesiologists. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. 2014 Feb;58(2):177-84. doi:
10.1111/aas.12220. Epub 2013 Nov 6. PubMed PMID: 24192076.
9: Skrede S, Nygård ST, Langeland N, Flaatten HK. [Aminoglycosides can reduce the
risk]. Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen. 2013 Aug 20;133(15):1554. doi:
10.4045/tidsskr.13.0868. Norwegian. PubMed PMID: 23970250.
10: Haug JB, Berild D, Blomberg B, Bruun JN, Flaatten HK, Leiva RA, Skrede S,
Torfoss D, Undseth Ø. [Aminoglycosides in severe sepsis]. Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen.
2013 Aug 20;133(15):1553-4. doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.13.0866. Norwegian. PubMed PMID:
23970249.
11: Bruun T, Kittang BR, de Hoog BJ, Aardal S, Flaatten HK, Langeland N,
Mylvaganam H, Vindenes HA, Skrede S. Necrotizing soft tissue infections caused by
Streptococcus pyogenes and Streptococcus dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis of
groups C and G in western Norway. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2013 Dec;19(12):E545-50.
doi: 10.1111/1469-0691.12276. Epub 2013 Jun 25. PubMed PMID: 23795951.
12: Flaatten H. [Physicians with limits]. Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen. 2013 Feb
19;133(4):382. doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.12.1495. Norwegian. PubMed PMID: 23423196.
13: Flaatten H. ARDS--insights from Iceland and definitions from Berlin. Acta
Anaesthesiol Scand. 2013 Jan;57(1):1-2. doi: 10.1111/aas.12021. PubMed PMID:
23216359.
14: Pearse RM, Moreno RP, Bauer P, Pelosi P, Metnitz P, Spies C, Vallet B,
Vincent JL, Hoeft A, Rhodes A; European Surgical Outcomes Study (EuSOS) group for
the Trials groups of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine and the
European Society of Anaesthesiology. Mortality after surgery in Europe: a 7 day
cohort study. Lancet. 2012 Sep 22;380(9847):1059-65. doi:
10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61148-9. PubMed PMID: 22998715; PubMed Central PMCID:
PMC3493988.
15: Rhodes A, Ferdinande P, Flaatten H, Guidet B, Metnitz PG, Moreno RP. The
variability of critical care bed numbers in Europe. Intensive Care Med. 2012
Oct;38(10):1647-53. Epub 2012 Jul 10. PubMed PMID: 22777516.
16: Flaatten H. The present use of quality indicators in the intensive care unit.
Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. 2012 Oct;56(9):1078-83. doi:
10.1111/j.1399-6576.2012.02656.x. Epub 2012 Feb 16. Review. PubMed PMID:
22339772.
17: Rhodes A, Moreno RP, Azoulay E, Capuzzo M, Chiche JD, Eddleston J, Endacott
R, Ferdinande P, Flaatten H, Guidet B, Kuhlen R, León-Gil C, Martin Delgado MC,
Metnitz PG, Soares M, Sprung CL, Timsit JF, Valentin A; Task Force on Safety and
Quality of European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM). Prospectively
defined indicators to improve the safety and quality of care for critically ill
patients: a report from the Task Force on Safety and Quality of the European
Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM). Intensive Care Med. 2012
Apr;38(4):598-605. doi: 10.1007/s00134-011-2462-3. Epub 2012 Jan 26. PubMed PMID:
22278594.
18: Pereira JM, Moreno RP, Matos R, Rhodes A, Martin-Loeches I, Cecconi M, Lisboa
T, Rello J; ESICM H1N1 Registry Steering Committee; ESICM H1N1 Registry
Contributors. Severity assessment tools in ICU patients with 2009 influenza A
(H1N1) pneumonia. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2012 Oct;18(10):1040-8. doi:
10.1111/j.1469-0691.2011.03736.x. Epub 2012 Jan 20. PubMed PMID: 22264290.
19: Vincent JL, Takala J, Flaatten H. Impact of reimbursement schemes on quality
of care: a European perspective. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2012 Jan
15;185(2):119-21. doi: 10.1164/rccm.201108-1472ED. PubMed PMID: 22246700.
20: Flaatten H. When will we ever learn? Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. 2012
Jan;56(1):1-2. doi: 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2011.02594.x. PubMed PMID: 22150408.
21: Torgersen J, Hole JF, Kvåle R, Wentzel-Larsen T, Flaatten H. Cognitive
impairments after critical illness. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. 2011
Oct;55(9):1044-51. doi: 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2011.02500.x. Epub 2011 Sep 8. PubMed
PMID: 22092200.
22: Omdal T, Dale J, Lie SA, Iversen KB, Flaatten H, Ovrebo K. Time trends in
incidence, etiology, and case fatality rate of the first attack of acute
pancreatitis. Scand J Gastroenterol. 2011 Nov;46(11):1389-98. doi:
10.3109/00365521.2011.605464. Epub 2011 Aug 10. PubMed PMID: 21830851.
23: Expert Round Table on Ultrasound in ICU. International expert statement on
training standards for critical care ultrasonography. Intensive Care Med. 2011
Jul;37(7):1077-83. doi: 10.1007/s00134-011-2246-9. Epub 2011 May 26. PubMed PMID:
21614639.
24: Power KN, Flaatten H, Gilhus NE, Engelsen BA. Propofol treatment in adult
refractory status epilepticus. Mortality risk and outcome. Epilepsy Res. 2011
Mar;94(1-2):53-60. doi: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2011.01.006. PubMed PMID: 21300522.
25: CoBaTrICE Collaboration. International standards for programmes of training
in intensive care medicine in Europe. Intensive Care Med. 2011 Mar;37(3):385-93.
doi: 10.1007/s00134-010-2096-x. Epub 2010 Dec 17. PubMed PMID: 21165735.
26: Martin-Loeches I, Lisboa T, Rhodes A, Moreno RP, Silva E, Sprung C, Chiche
JD, Barahona D, Villabon M, Balasini C, Pearse RM, Matos R, Rello J; ESICM H1N1
Registry Contributors. Use of early corticosteroid therapy on ICU admission in
patients affected by severe pandemic (H1N1)v influenza A infection. Intensive
Care Med. 2011 Feb;37(2):272-83. doi: 10.1007/s00134-010-2078-z. Epub 2010 Nov
24. PubMed PMID: 21107529.
27: Strand K, Walther SM, Reinikainen M, Ala-Kokko T, Nolin T, Martner J, Mussalo
P, Søreide E, Flaatten HK. Variations in the length of stay of intensive care
unit nonsurvivors in three Scandinavian countries. Crit Care. 2010;14(5):R175.
doi: 10.1186/cc9279. Epub 2010 Oct 4. PubMed PMID: 20920348; PubMed Central
PMCID: PMC3219277.
28: Jones C, Bäckman C, Capuzzo M, Egerod I, Flaatten H, Granja C, Rylander C,
Griffiths RD; RACHEL group. Intensive care diaries reduce new onset post
traumatic stress disorder following critical illness: a randomised, controlled
trial. Crit Care. 2010;14(5):R168. doi: 10.1186/cc9260. Epub 2010 Sep 15. PubMed
PMID: 20843344; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3219263.
29: Flaatten H. Mental and physical disorders after ICU discharge. Curr Opin Crit
Care. 2010 Oct;16(5):510-5. doi: 10.1097/MCC.0b013e32833cc90b. Review. PubMed
PMID: 20613500.
30: Torgersen J, Helland C, Flaatten H, Wester K. Reversible dyscognition in
patients with a unilateral, middle fossa arachnoid cyst revealed by using a
laptop based neuropsychological test battery (CANTAB). J Neurol. 2010
Nov;257(11):1909-16. doi: 10.1007/s00415-010-5634-0. Epub 2010 Jul 4. PubMed
PMID: 20602236.
31: Torgersen J, Strand K, Bjelland TW, Klepstad P, Kvåle R, Søreide E,
Wentzel-Larsen T, Flaatten H. Cognitive dysfunction and health-related quality of
life after a cardiac arrest and therapeutic hypothermia. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand.
2010 Jul;54(6):721-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2010.02219.x. Epub 2010 Mar 10.
PubMed PMID: 20236101.
32: Strand K, Strand LI, Flaatten H. The interrater reliability of SAPS II and
SAPS 3. Intensive Care Med. 2010 May;36(5):850-3. doi: 10.1007/s00134-010-1772-1.
Epub 2010 Feb 4. Erratum in: Intensive Care Med. 2010 Aug;36(8):1449. PubMed
PMID: 20130828.
33: Flaatten H, Søreide E. [Intensive medicine in Norway]. Tidsskr Nor
Laegeforen. 2010 Jan 28;130(2):166-8. doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.08.0054. Norwegian.
PubMed PMID: 20125211.
34: Kvåle R, Flaatten H. [Outcome after intensive care]. Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen.
2010 Jan 14;130(1):44-6. doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.08.0414. Review. Norwegian. PubMed
PMID: 20094124.
35: Laake JH, Flaatten HK. Influenza and the anaesthesiologist. Acta Anaesthesiol
Scand. 2010 Jan;54(1):3-5. doi: 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2009.02167.x. PubMed PMID:
19961438.
36: Laake JH, Dybwik K, Flaatten HK, Fonneland IL, Kvåle R, Strand K. Impact of
the post-World War II generation on intensive care needs in Norway. Acta
Anaesthesiol Scand. 2010 Apr;54(4):479-84. doi: 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2009.02170.x.
Epub 2009 Nov 23. PubMed PMID: 19930244.
[1]UiB: University of Bergen
[2] ESICM: European Society of Intensive Care Medicine
[3] SSAI Scandinavian Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care
[4]BASIC: Basic Assessment and Stabilisation in Intensive Care.