Qualifications

• Bachelor of Medicine MBBCh, University of Alexandria Egypt
• German Board Certified, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Critical Care
• German Board Certified, Consultant in Pain Management
• German Board Certified, Specialist in Emergency Medicine

Professional Background

With more than 11 years of experience in anaesthesiology in German teaching hospitals, Dr. Abdelsalam’s professional background includes the following:

• Specialist in Anaesthesiology / Pain Centre, Starnberger See, Feldafing, Germany (2019 – 2023)
• Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Resident, Regiomed Hospitals, Lichtenfels & Coburg, Germany (2013 – 2018)

Clinical Expertise

• General anaesthesia techniques for a comprehensive range of surgeries (e.g. general surgery, abdominal surgery, thoracic surgery, neurosurgery, gynaecology, urology, orthopaedic etc..)
• Regional anaesthesia: mastering the techniques of ultrasound guided nerve blocks as well as Neuro-axial anaesthesia: Spinal anaesthesia, lumbar and thoracic PDA (epidural anaesthesia).
• Postoperative acute pain management
• Operative intensive care
• Management of headaches (such as Migraine, cluster headache, tension headache etc..)
• Chronic back pain (cervical / thoracic / lumbar/ sacroiliac joint) due to different pathologies (neuropathic / nociceptive , myofascial)
• Post-herpetic neuralgia, polyneuropathy
• Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS)
• Deafferentation and phantom pain
• Rheumatology and orthopaedic related pain (polymyalgia rheumatica, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, pain after joint replacement surgery etc.)
• Fibromyalgia
• Opioid related disorders (such as opioid withdrawal due to misuse/dependence or opioid rotation)