Marco Ranucci
Director
Haematology
Haemonetics
Sweden
Biography
Dr. Marco Ranucci’s clinical interests include risk stratification in cardiac surgery. In this area, he is the inventor of the age, creatinine and ejection fraction (ACEF) score, a risk score for cardiac surgery and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) included in the European Society of Cardiology and European Association of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (ESC/EACTS) guidelines. He is also interested in cardiopulmonary bypass technologies as well as hemostasis and coagulation in critically ill patients. Dr. Marco Ranucci is the author of 217 peer-reviewed publications. He participated in writing the hemostasis and coagulation guidelines of the EACTA/EACTS and those of the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists. He is in charge of writing the anticoagulation guidelines during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) of the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization. He is also past President of Italian Association of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiologists (ITACTA) and European Association of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiologists (EACTA). Dr. Ranucci has authored three books in the areas of transesophageal echo (Cambridge University Press), cardiac anesthesia (Oxford University Press) and hemostasis/coagulation (Springer Verlag)
Research Interest
Haematology
