Semra Uğur

M.D. Semra Uğur is an anesthesiologist and intensivist with a medical degree from Istanbul University Faculty of Medicine (2014) and specialized training in Anesthesiology and Reanimation. She currently practices at Acibadem Health Group (2025), where she provides perioperative anesthesia care and critical care management. Dr. Uğur is an active member of professional societies that support best practices in anesthesia and intensive care, including the Turkish Intensive Care Association (TYBD), the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM), the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC), and the Turkish Society of Anesthesiology and Reanimation (TARD). Her clinical interests include advanced critical care, hemodynamic monitoring, and improving patient safety in both the operating room and intensive care unit.

Education

• 2014 Istanbul University Istanbul Faculty of Medicine Anesthesiology and Reanimation
• 2006 Istanbul University Istanbul Faculty of Medicine

Experience

• 2025 Acibadem Health Group
• 2024 Specialist Doctor – Anadolu Medical Center Hospital
• 2017 – 2024 Specialist Doctor – Koç University Hospital, Adult Intensive Care Unit, Istanbul,
• 2015 – 2017 Specialist Doctor – Ministry of Health, Ümraniye Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul,
• 2014 – 2015 Specialist Doctor – Gevas State Hospital, Van
• 2006 – 2007 General Practitioner – Bağcılar Demirkapı Health Center, Istanbul

Memberships

• Turkish Intensive Care Association (TYBD)
• European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM)
• European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC)
• Turkish Society of Anesthesiology and Reanimation (TARD)

Publications

• The povver of mechanical ventilation may predict mortality in critically ili patients
  Minerva Anestesiol. 2023 Jul- Aug;89(7-8):663-670. Evren Senturk, Semra Ugur, Yeliz Celik, Zafer Cukurova, Sinan Asar, Nahit Cakar
• The Association of Intraoperative driving pressure with postoperative pulmonary complications in kissing versus closed abdominal surgery patients – – a posthoc propensity score-weighted cohort analysis of the LAS VEGAS study
  BMC Anesthesiology (2021) 21:84 G. Mazzinari, A.S. Neto, S. N. T. Hemmes, G. Hedenstierna , S. Jaber ,M. Hiesmayr, M. W. Hollmann,G. Mills, R. Pearse, C. Putensen , W. Schmid, P. S
• Intraoperative ventilator settings and their association with ”postoperative pulmonary complications in neurosurgical patients: post-hoc analysis of LAS VEGAS study
  BMC Anesthesiology (2020) 20:73 C. Robba , S. N. T. Hemmes , A. S. Neto , T. Bluth , J. Canet , M. Hiesmayr , M.W. Hollmann,G. H. Mills,M. F.V. Melo,C. Putensen ,S. Jaber ,W. Schm
• Intraoperative ventilator settings and their association with ”postoperative pulmonary complications in neurosurgical patients: post-hoc analysis of
  BMC Anesthesiology (2020) 20:73 C. Robba , S. N. T. Hemmes , A. S. Neto , T. Bluth , J. Canet , M. Hiesmayr , M.W. Hollmann,G. H. Mills,M. F.V. Melo,C. Putensen ,S. Jaber ,W. Schm
• Number: THEIJID-D-20-02968, Article Title: Appropriate use of Tocilizumab in COVID-19 Infection
  International Journal of Infectious Diseases 2020 Şiran Keşke, Süda Tekin, Bilgin sait, Pelin İrkören, Mahir Kapmaz, Cansu Çimen, Semra Uğur, İrfan Çelebi, Veli Oğuzalpbakır, Erhan Palaoğlu, Evren
• the PROVE Netvvork, and the Clinical Trial Netvvork of the European Society of Anaesthesiology. Association betvveen night-time surgery and occurrence of intraoperative adverse events and postoperative pulmonary complications.
  British Journal of Anaesthesia, 2019, 122 (3): 361-369 Cortegiani, C. Gregoretti, A. S. Neto, S. N. T. Hemmes, L. BalI, J. Canet, M. Hiesmayr, M. W. Hollmarın, G. H. Mills, M. F. V. Melo, C. Putensen,
• Development of a prediction model for postoperative pneumonia, A multicentre prospective observational study
  Eur J Anaesthesiol 2019; 36:93-104 V. Russotto, S. Sabate, J. Canet, for the PERISCOPE group of the European Society of Anaesthesiology (ESA) Clinical Trial Netvvvork (Turkey: ..Semra
• the PROVE Netvvork Clinical Trial Netvvvork of the European Society of Anaesthesiology
  Intraoperative ventilation settings and their associations with postoperative pulmonary complications in obese patients. British Journal of Anaesthesia L. BalI, S. N. T. Hemmes, A. Serpa Neto, T. Bluth, J. Canet, M. Hiesmayr, M. W. Hollmann, G. H. Mills, M. F. Vidal Melo, C. Putensenl, W. Schmid, P
• Epidemiology, practice of ventilation and outcome for patients at increased risk of postoperative pulmonary complications LAS VEGAS – an observational study in 29 countries
  Eur J Anaesthesiol 2017; 34:492-507. The LAS VEGAS investigators* (Turkey: ..Semra Kucukgoncu..).
• List of Participating Centers and Collaborators (*Site Lead Investigators) Turkey – Medical Faculty of Istanbul, Istanbul University
  (Anesthesiology 2014; 121:219-31) Valentin Mazo, M.D., Sergi Sabate, M.D., Ph.D., Jaume Canet, M.D., Ph.D., Luis Gallart, M.D., Ph.D., Marcelo Gama de Abreu, M.D., Ph.D., Javier Be