Portrait Julian Rössler

Julian Rössler
Dr. med. Attending Physician, Institute for Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine

Specialties

  • Anesthesiology
  • Clinical research

Contact

Tel. +41 43 253 29 19
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Career History

2026 – present Senior Physician, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University Hospital of Zurich
2026 Specialist in Anesthesiology FMH
2023–2025 Resident, Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospital of Zurich
2022 – 2023 Research Fellow, Department of Outcomes Research (Daniel Sessler, M.D.), Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, USA
2023 – present Editor (Social Media), Journal of Clinical Anesthesia
2021 Resident, Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospital of Zurich
2020 – 2021 Resident, Department of Anesthesiology, Winterthur Cantonal Hospital
2020 Resident, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University Hospital of Zurich
2018–2019 Resident, Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospital of Zurich
2017 Research Associate, Collegium Helveticum, a joint research institute of the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich
2017 State Examination in Human Medicine, University of Zurich

Publications (selection)

  • Rössler J, Kopac O, Marquez Roa L, Bajracharya GR, Wang L, Ruetzler K, Turan A. Associations Between Intraoperative Hypotension and Perioperative Blood Pressure and Delirium After Noncardiac Surgery: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis. Anesthesiology. 2025;143(3):559-569. doi: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000005565.
  • Rössler J, Abramczyk E, Paredes S, Anusic N, Pu X, Maheshwari K, Turan A, Ruetzler K. Association of Intravenous Neostigmine and Anticholinergics or Sugammadex with Postoperative Delirium: A Retrospective Cohort Study. Anesthesia & Analgesia. 2025;140(1):110-118. doi: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000006939.
  • Rössler J, Shah K, Medellin S, Turan A, Ruetzler K, Singh M, Sessler DI, Maheshwari K. Development and validation of delirium prediction models for noncardiac surgery patients. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia. 2023;93:111319. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2023.111319.
  • Rössler J, Hegemann I, Schoenrath F, Seifert B, Kaserer A, Spahn GH, Falk V, Spahn DR. Efficacy of quadruple therapy for different types of preoperative anemia: secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial. Anesthesia. 2020; 75(8):1039-1049. doi: 10.1111/anae.15062
  • Rössler J, Schoenrath F, Seifert B, Kaserer A, Spahn GH, Falk V, Spahn DR. Iron deficiency is associated with higher mortality in patients undergoing cardiac surgery: a prospective study. British Journal of Anesthesia. 2020; 124(1):25-34. doi: 10.1016/j.bja.2019.09.016

Memberships

  • Outcomes Research Consortium
  • Karl Landsteiner Institute for Perioperative Medicine
  • ESAIC

Key Research Areas

  • Postoperative Delirium
  • Perioperative Neurocognitive Disorders & Brain Health