A/Prof Hergen Buscher

FCICM, EDIC, DEAA

Languages: English, German

Specialties

  • Intensive Care

Areas of Interest

  • Translating research into clinical care
  • Extracorporeal life support
  • Blood management
  • Lung ultrasound
  • Therapeutic drug monitoring

St Vincent’s Private Hospital Sydney, NSW

Intensive Care Unit
Level 6/Bernice Wing
St Vincent's Private Hospital
Darlinghurst NSW 2010

T: 02 8382 9620

E: Hergen.Buscher@svha.org.au

Biography

A/Prof Hergen Buscher is an intensive care specialist who has worked in the field of intensive care and anaesthesia since 1995.

After receiving his qualifications in Germany, A/Prof Buscher moved to Australia in 2003, completing his Australian credentials for intensive care medicine at Westmead Hospital. He went on to join the team at St Vincent’s Hospital as a staff specialist in 2008, then joining the St Vincent’s Private Hospital Intensive Care Consultants in 2012.

A/Prof Buscher has a research interest in the field of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), having now published more then 100 publications in scientific journals and been involved in several international collaborations. As a result of Dr Busher's work in this field, St Vincent’s Hospital is now leading international guideline developments on ECMO.

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