Dr. Ruediger Noppens
Associate Professor
Director, Neuroanesthesia
FRCPC
Associate Professor (cross-appointment)
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology
email: ruediger.noppens@lhsc.on.ca
Biography
Ruediger “Rudy” Noppens, MD, PhD, FRCPC joined Western University, Canada in November 2016. He is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Associate Professor (cross-appointment) of Physiology and Pharmacology at Western University, Canada. He is also the program director of Neuroanesthesia at London Health Sciences Centre (Canada). Dr Noppens graduated at Johannes Gutenberg-University (Germany) where he also trained in Anesthesiology, Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Medicine. He completed a post-doctoral fellowship in the field of neurosciences at Oregon Health & Science University, USA.
During his appointment as an Associate Professor at Johannes Gutenberg-University (Germany) his clinical research pursuits have included strategies for airway management, innovative airway devices in anesthesia and non-invasive hemoglobin monitoring. As a clinician, he was not just part of the anesthesia team focusing on the management of difficult airways, neuroanesthesia and pediatric anesthesia but also worked in pre-hospital emergency medicine as a rescue helicopter physician and served as a chief emergency physician. Dr Noppens has also studied experimental ischemia in a variety of animal models since 1998. He has worked on strategies for preconditioning and reperfusion after experimental brain ischemia as well as mechanisms of neuronal injury.
Rudy Noppens organizes and conducts workshops in airway management and is an invited speaker at various international meetings. From 2015 to 2017 he was the president of the scientific focus group for airway management of the German Society of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine and serves as treasurer for European Airway Management Society since 2013. He also has been involved in the development of the Guidelines on Airway Management of the German Society of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine.
Publications
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Belrose, J.C., Noppens, R.R. Anesthesiology and cognitive impairment: a narrative review of current clinical literature. BMC Anesthesiol 19, 241 (2019) doi:10.1186/s12871-019-0903-7
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Banik S, Parrent AG, Noppens RR (2019) Awake craniotomy in a super obese patient using high flow nasal cannula oxygen therapy (HFNC). Anaesthesist 68:780–783. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00101-019-00695-4
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Kriege M, Heid F, Alflen C, Noppens R, et al (2019) The Orogastric Tube Guide(R) as a novel strategy for gastric tube insertion: a prospective, randomized controlled clinical trial. Minerva Anestesiol. https://doi.org/10.23736/S0375-9393.19.14076-X
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Timmerman, Bottiger, Byhahn, Noppens et al. German guideline for prehospital airway management (short version). Anästh Intensivmed 2019;60:316-336
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Pius J, Ioanidis K, Noppens RR. Use of the Novel C-MAC Video Stylet in a Case of Predicted Difficult Intubation: A Case Report. A A Pract. 2019 Mar 25. doi: 10.1213/XAA.0000000000000998. [Epub ahead of print]
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A.Timmermann , B.W.Böttiger , C.Byhahn , V.Dörges , C.Eich , J.T.Gräsner , F.Hoffmann , B.Hossfeld , B.Landsleitner , T.Piepho, R.Noppens, S.G.Russo , V.Wenzel, B.Zwißler, M.Bernhard. The Guidelines for Prehospital Airway Management for Germany. Association of Scientific Medical Societies: 2019 February.
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Kriege, M; Noppens, RR. What should we expect in anaesthesia, critical care and pre-hospital care from extra glottic airways? Proven clinical performance for a variety of indications and patients. TRENDS IN ANAESTHESIA AND CRITICAL CARE Volume: 25 Pages: 32-35. DOI: 10.1016/j.tacc.2018.11.001 Published:APR 2019
- Eichelsbacher C, Ilper H, Noppens R, Hinkelbein J, Loop T. Rapid sequence induction and intubation in patients with risk of aspiration: Recommendations for action for practical management of anesthesia. Anaesthesist. 2018 Aug;67(8):568-583. doi: 10.1007/s00101-018-0460-3. Epub 2018 Jun 29.
- Kriege M, Piepho T, Noppens RR. We still lack an effective method to identify the brest supreglottic airway device. Minerva Anesthesiol. 2018 Mar; 84(3):413-414.
- Noppens RR. Intubationen auf der ITS - konventionell oder videolaryngoskopisch? Journal Club AINS 2017; 6: Seiten: 162; 165.
- Kriege M, Alflen C, Tzanova I, Schmidtmann I, Piepho T, Noppens RR. Evaluation of the McGrath MAC and Macintosh laryngoscope for tracheal intubation in 2000 patients undergoing general anaesthesia: the randomised multicentre EMMA trial study protocol. BMJ Open. 2017 Aug 21;7(8):e016907.
- Ott T, Barth A, Kriege M, Jahn-Eimermacher A, Piepho T, Noppens RR. The novel video-assisted intubating laryngeal mask Totaltrack compared to the intubating laryngeal mask Fastrach - a controlled randomized manikin study. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. 2017 Apr;61(4):381-389.
- Kriege M, Alflen C, Eisel J, Ott T, Piepho T, Noppens RR. Evaluation of the optimal cuff volume and cuff pressure of the revised laryngeal tube "LTS-D" in surgical patients. BMC Anesthesiol. 2017 Feb 2;17(1):19.
- Pirlich N, Lohse JA, Schmidtmann I, Didion N, Piepho T, Noppens RR: A Comparison of the Enk Fiberoptic Atomizer Set™ with boluses of topical anaesthesia for awake fibreoptic intubation. Anaesthesia 2016; 71:814-822.
- Pirlich N, Lohse JA, Noppens RR. Airway topical anaesthesia for awake fibreoptic intubation - a reply.Anaesthesia. 2016 Dec;71(12):1490-1491.
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