| Name: |
T.H. (Teus) Kappen, MD |
| Function: |
PhD student and resident in Anesthesiology |
| Department: |
Anesthesiology |
| Division: |
Division of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine |
| E-mail address: |
T.Kappen@umcutrecht.nl |
| Phone number: |
+31 (0) 88 75 59677 |
| Fax number: |
+31 (0) 30 254 1828 |
| Visiting address: |
UMC Utrecht
Heidelberglaan 100
3584 CX Utrecht
The Netherlands |
| Correspondence: |
UMC Utrecht
P.O. Box 85500
Mail stop Q04.2.313
3508 GA Utrecht
The Netherlands |
About
Teus Kappen is a resident and PhD student at the anesthesiology department of the UMC Utrecht. His PhD thesis concerns the use of prediction rules in daily clinical practice and their benefit to patient care. In a substantial, cluster-randomized trial (N = 12,000) a prediction rule for postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) was implemented, providing anesthesiologists with a predicted risk of PONV for every individual patient. The goal was to evaluate whether this additional information affected the behaviour of anesthesiologists and consequently led to a decrease in the occurrence of PONV among patients.
He was also involved in several other research projects. During medical school he collaborated with the NIVEL to study patients’ presentations of medically unexplained symptoms and the response of their physicians. Furthermore, he participated in retrospective studies of peri-operative blood pressure management and evaluation of the Dutch anesthesiology complication registration system. At the present time he is concluding his MSc Epidemiology at the University of Utrecht.