Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care

Fields of activity, main tasks and objectives

To organise high-quality undergraduate studies in the following study courses:
- Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Toxicology, First Aid and Civil Defence, Emergency Medicine, Extreme and Wilderness Medicine, Pain Medicine, Topicalities in Clinical Toxicology, Emergency Medicine.
To organise continuing education in anaesthesiology and intensive care,
To raise practicing anaesthetists' and intensive care specialists' qualifications,
To supervise student scientific research papers,
To promote the department’s lecturers' and doctoral students' scientific research,
To cooperate with the Latvian Association of Anaesthesiologists and Resuscitators, the Latvian Association for the Study of Pain, the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, and other professional associations,
To promote and maintain cooperation between RSU departments,
To cooperate with the Academic Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care of the Faculty of Medicine,
To cooperate with clinical university hospitals,
To improve the professional and pedagogical qualifications of the department’s academic staff.

The role of functional arterial properties in determining the risk of progression of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome in sepsis patients,
Clinical, immunological and genetic aspects of sepsis,
Effects of genetic factors and changes in coagulation due to extracorporeal circulation on postoperative bleeding,
Ultrasound and fluoroscopic-controlled analgesic blockade in patients with degenerative diseases of the spine,
Oropharyngeal pathology and results of surgical treatment in patients with sleep disturbed breathing,
Relationship between dehydration, distribution of fluid volume and damage to glycocalyx layer during general anaesthesia,
Multimodal optical technique for fluid and vasopressor therapy in critically ill patients,
Regional cerebral oximetry in neuroanesthesiology and surgeries in forced postures,
Thrombelastometry for assessing risks of thrombosis in microsurgical operations.