Emel Eskitaşçıoğlu, MD

Emel Eskitaşçıoğlu, MD is an anesthesiology specialist at Acibadem Kayseri Hospital in Kayseri, where she works in the Anesthesiology & Reanimation unit with a subspecialty focus on intensive care. She has more than 30 years in medicine. Her clinical work centers on advanced life support, intensive care treatment and palliative care for patients who need close monitoring and support of vital functions.

Dr. Eskitaşçıoğlu graduated from Ondokuzmayıs University Faculty of Medicine in 1996 and completed her specialty training in Anesthesiology and Reanimation at Erciyes University Faculty of Medicine in 2005. She then worked at Özel Ömür Hospital from 2005 to 2007 and at Kayseri Obstetrics and Gynecology and Pediatrics Hospital/Kayseri Training and Research Hospital from 2008 to 2009, before joining Acıbadem Healthcare Services in 2009. She is a member of the Turkish Medical Association. Her published work includes a 2005 paper in Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. on single-dose dexmedetomidine and airway and circulatory reflexes during extubation, and a 2011 article in the Erciyes Medical Journal on the effects of flumazenil and naloxone on antinociception induced by dexmedetomidine.

Clinical focus

Dr. Eskitaşçıoğlu’s practice covers anesthesiology and intensive care treatment. In the intensive care setting, she is involved in the assessment and ongoing management of critically ill patients, including support of breathing and circulation, monitoring of organ function and adjustment of treatment as a patient’s condition changes. Decisions about the level of support are made according to the individual patient’s clinical picture and are reviewed regularly with the wider treating team.

She also has expertise in advanced life support, which refers to the structured management of patients in cardiac or respiratory arrest and other life-threatening emergencies, and in palliative care, where the aim is to relieve symptoms such as pain and breathlessness and to support patients and their families when a condition cannot be cured. In each of these areas, the approach is cautious and individualized, and the expected benefits and limitations of any intervention are discussed with the patient or, where appropriate, with family members.

How Dr. Eskitaşçıoğlu works with international patients

Dr. Eskitaşçıoğlu consults in Turkish and English, and interpreters can be arranged for other languages. For international patients, the Acibadem international patient team coordinates the collection of prior reports and imaging, such as MRI, CT, X-ray or ultrasound reports, laboratory and pathology results, operative notes and discharge summaries, arranges appointments and organizes the hospital visit. A first consultation typically covers the patient’s history and symptoms, a review of existing imaging and previous treatments, a clinical examination and a discussion of the options. Video consultation is available for international patients, which can be used to review a case and existing documents before any decision about travel is made.