Stefan Kutzsche

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Stefan Kutzsche
Born (1954-04-15) 15 April 1954 (age 71)
Frankfurt am Main
Alma mater
Scientific career
Fields Medicine (pediatrics, neonatology, anesthesiology, medical ethics, education)
Institutions
Thesis Effects of hypoxemia and reoxygenation on cerebral microcirculation, nitric oxide, hydrogen peroxide and excitatory amino acid concentrations  (2002)
Doctoral advisor Ola Didrik Saugstad

Stefan Kutzsche (born 15 April 1954) [1] [2] is a Norwegian paediatrician, neonatologist, anaesthesiologist, and historian of medicine. His research has focused on neonatal brain injury physiology and critical-care physiology, alongside work in medical ethics, medical education, and the history of child healthcare.

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Background and career

He graduated as a medical doctor at the University of Hamburg in 1983 and obtained a PhD (dr.med.) degree in neonatology from the University of Oslo in 2002. [3] [4] [5] He is double board certified in paediatrics [6] and anaesthesiology. [7]

He has particularly worked with the treatment of children with acute severe illness or injury. He was a senior consultant in pediatric anesthesia, pediatric intensive care, and neonatal intensive care at Oslo University Hospital, Ullevål between 1994 and 2014, heading the Pediatric Intensive Care department for a period. [1] [8] [9] He also worked at the University of Tromsø and the University of Oslo. [1] He served for twelve years with No. 330 Squadron of the Royal Norwegian Air Force in Banak on search and rescue (SAR) and air ambulance missions in northernmost Norway and the waters of the High North, [10] and was later chief physician at the Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation. [1] He spent four years in Kuala Lumpur as an associate professor at the International Medical University (IMU) [11] [4] and director of the IMU Centre for Education. [12] He has also taken part in medical humanitarian work in Cambodia and Laos, including at the Angkor Hospital for Children. [13] In 2019 he became a special advisor for education at Oslo University Hospital. [14]

He has been a member and chairman of the Board for Licensing Matters and Foreign Medical Practitioners in Norway (1998–2007), [15] a board member of the Norwegian Society of Pediatricians and editor of its journal Paidos, [16] a member of the Norwegian specialty committee for pediatrics, [17] and a member of the clinical ethics committee at Oslo University Hospital. [18] He is an advisory member of the IMU Centre for Bioethics and Humanities, [19] and is a board member of two charitable funds of the Oslo Women's Public Health Association. [20] [21] He is a member of the editorial committee of Acta Paediatrica . [22]

Research

His biomedical research has centred on neonatal brain injury physiology and critical-care physiology, while he has also published in medical ethics, medical education, and the history of child healthcare. [19] [23] [1] [24] [25] Within neonatology and neuroscience, his research focus concerned how oxygen-related processes influence secondary brain injury in newborn infants following perinatal asphyxia. Working with his doctoral advisor Ola Didrik Saugstad, he studied how the oxygen concentration used during emergency resuscitation (100% oxygen versus normal air) might affect neurological injury and recovery, a question of major clinical importance and one of the most technically and ethically challenging areas in modern neonatal care because treatment must be given within minutes and may influence both survival and long-term neurological outcome. [26] [5] He and other members of Saugstad's research group helped question the long-standing routine use of 100% oxygen during newborn resuscitation, and he contributed to the early experimental and physiological research in the 1990s that helped lay the groundwork for the amendment of international resuscitation guidelines in 2010. [27] He has also published experimental studies on systemic inflammation and critical-care physiology, including work on endotoxemia and organ responses in large-animal models. He has published over 35 papers in medical journals, including in Pediatrics , Pediatric Research , Biology of the Neonate , Critical Care Medicine , Pediatric Critical Care Medicine , Thrombosis Research , Acta Paediatrica , and Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica .

Selected publications

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Stefan Kutzsche". Store Norske Leksikon . 2014-09-28.
  2. ↑ Larsen, Øivind, ed. (1996). "Kutzsche, Stefan Paus". Norges leger[Physicians of Norway] (in Norwegian). Vol. 3. Oslo: Norwegian Medical Association. p. 452. ISBN   978-82-90921-43-4.
  3. ↑ Larsen, Øivind, ed. (2014). Doktorskole og medisinstudium: Det medisinske fakultet ved Universitetet i Oslo gjennom 200 år (1814–2014). Oslo: Norwegian Medical Society. p. 640. ISBN   978-82-92871-92-8.
  4. 1 2 "60 år: Dr.med. Stefan Kutzsche". Dagsavisen . 15 April 2014. p. 33.
  5. 1 2 Kutzsche, S (2003). "Oksygen ved fødselsasfyksi". Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association . 123 (11): 1545.
  6. ↑ "Godkjente spesialister i barnesykdommer". Norwegian Medical Association. Archived from the original on 17 November 2013. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
  7. ↑ "Godkjente spesialister i anestesiologi". Norwegian Medical Association. Archived from the original on 21 June 2017. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
  8. ↑ Pedersen, Natasha, ed. (2016). Barnepalliasjon: mer enn omsorg ved livets slutt [Pediatric Palliative Care: More Than End-of-Life Care]. Foreningen for barnepalliasjon. p. 59. Dr. med. Stefan Kutzsche (f. 1954) er barnelege og anestesilege med mangeårig erfaring i omsorg og behandling av pasienter med akutt alvorlig sykdom eller skade. Han er ansatt på Nyfødtintensivavdelingen ved Oslo universitetssykehus.
  9. ↑ Kutzsche, S; Fugelseth, D (2013). "Trygg barseltid for nyfødte barn" (PDF). Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association . 133 (3): 270–1. doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.12.1222 . PMID   23381161.
  10. ↑ "Årsrapport 2005 Banak" (PDF). Finnmark Hospital Trust. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 August 2015.
  11. ↑ "60 år: Dr.med. Stefan Kutzsche". Aftenposten . 15 April 2014. p. 35.
  12. ↑ "Team to steer uni to greater heights". The Star . 7 February 2016.
  13. ↑ "Et håndslag til barnehelse i Kambodsja". Paidos. 15 July 2019.
  14. ↑ "Stefan Kutzsche". Archived from the original on 2021-06-30. Retrieved 2024-01-13.
  15. ↑ Larsen, Øivind, ed. (2013). "Det medisinske fakultet i Oslo siden 1970-årene – et aktørseminar" (PDF). Michael . 10: 219–344. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2024-01-14.
  16. ↑ Bjørkhaug, Anders (2014). "Redaktøren". Paidos. 32 (2): 34. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  17. ↑ "Medlemmer i spesialitetskomiteen for barnesykdommer". Norwegian Medical Association. Archived from the original on 27 October 2013.
  18. ↑ "Klinisk etikk-komité Oslo universitetssykehus, Ullevål og Aker sykehus". University of Oslo. Archived from the original on 27 June 2014.
  19. 1 2 "Centre for Bioethics and Humanities" . Retrieved 30 June 2021.
  20. ↑ "Oslo Sanitetsforening fond til beste for barn og ungdom". Brønnøysund Register Centre . Retrieved 10 October 2025.
  21. ↑ "Oslo Sanitetsforening venners fond". Brønnøysund Register Centre . Retrieved 10 October 2025.
  22. ↑ "Editorial Board". Acta Paediatrica. doi:10.1111/(ISSN)1651-2227.
  23. ↑ Gupta, Sanjay (9 October 2013). "Sad Times, Tough Calls on the Pediatric Service". The Gupta Guide. Archived from the original on 2 December 2014. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
  24. ↑ Kutzsche, S (2012). "Pedagogical training for health personnel". Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association . 132 (6): 628. doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.12.0112 . PMID   22456137.
  25. ↑ "Utdanning i etikk for barneleger". Dagens Medisin. 9 September 2013. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
  26. ↑ Hofstad, Eivor (1998). "Gassforskning på Rikshospitalet" [Gas research at the National Hospital]. Legemidler og samfunn. No. 7. pp. 62–63. I Norge er det mellom 1200 og 1800 barn årlig som trenger gjenoppliving på grunn av oksygenmangel i forbindelse med fødselen (fødselsasfyksi). På Rikshospitalet pågår nå et prosjekt som vil evaluere dagens behandlingsformer [...] I prosjektet undersøker Kutzsche forskjellen på hvordan behandlingen fungerer med rent oksygen (dagens standardbehandling) i forhold til luft.
  27. ↑ Fugelsnes, Elin (19 October 2010). "Kan redde 200 000 nyfødte". Forskning.no . Retrieved 14 August 2015.
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