Şaban Selçuk Dinçer, MD

Şaban Selçuk Dinçer, MD is an anesthesiologist at Acibadem Kozyatagi Hospital in İstanbul, where he works in the Anesthesiology & Reanimation unit. His areas of expertise are anesthesiology, intensive care, pain management and algology, the medical field concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of pain. He has more than 29 years in medicine, and his career has moved between anesthesia care, intensive care and pain medicine.

Dr. Dinçer graduated from İstanbul University Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine in 1997 and completed his specialization in Anesthesiology and Reanimation at İstanbul University İstanbul Faculty of Medicine in 2004. From 2007 to 2011 he worked as a specialist physician in the Department of Anesthesiology, Division of Algology at İstanbul University İstanbul Faculty of Medicine. Between 2011 and 2017 he practiced in the intensive care unit (Yoğunbakım) of Özel Kavacık Medistate Hospital. He has been with Acıbadem Healthcare Services since 2017. He is a member of the Turkish Medical Association.

Clinical focus

Dr. Dinçer’s clinical work covers the three fields listed in his profile. In anesthesiology, this includes the anesthetic care of patients undergoing surgical and other procedures, from assessment before the procedure to monitoring during and after it. In intensive care, drawing on his years in an intensive care unit, his work involves the care of patients whose condition requires close monitoring and organ support. The type of anesthesia or level of care that is appropriate depends on the individual patient, the planned procedure and any existing medical conditions, and is decided after clinical assessment.

His third field is pain management and algology. Having worked as a specialist physician in a Division of Algology, Dr. Dinçer sees patients with pain and discusses possible approaches with them. Where a procedure-based approach is being considered, information on interventional pain management is available on this site. Whether a particular treatment is suitable can only be assessed after a review of the patient’s history, previous treatments and any available imaging.

How Dr. Dinçer works with international patients

Dr. Dinçer speaks Turkish and English, and interpreters can be arranged for patients who speak other languages. Before a visit, the Acibadem international patient team coordinates the collection of prior reports and imaging, for example MRI, CT, X-ray or ultrasound reports, laboratory and pathology results, operative notes and discharge summaries, arranges appointments and organises 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. For patients who are not yet in İstanbul, a video consultation with Dr. Dinçer can be arranged; this can be a first step before a decision on whether an in-person visit is appropriate, although any assessment of suitability for anesthesia or a pain procedure still requires a clinical examination.