Prof. Ludhmila Abrahão Hajjar

Profa. Ludhmila Abrahão Hajjar


Position: Permanent faculty, associate professor at Universidade de São Paulo Medical School. Cardio-Oncology Coordinator at Instituto do Coração, Hospital das Clínicas, FMUSP. Cardiology Coordinator of the Cancer Institute of the State of São Paulo (ICESP). Coordinator of the Intensive Care Unit at Hospital Paulistano. Coordinator of Cardio-Oncology of the Americas Serviços Médicos Network and director of Science, Innovation and Technology of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology. Participates in the Medical Residency Program and is an advisor of this Graduate Program. Assistance, teaching and research activities.

Specialties: Medicine: medical clinic, cardiology, intensive care and emergency Medicine

Fields of interest: critical cardiology; surgical intensive care; intensive therapy in cancer patients; cardio-oncology

Healthcare unit: Heart Institute and Cancer Institute

h-index: 33 (Google Scholar); 23 (Scopus)

Activity as editor or reviewer of scientific papers
  • Professor (MS3) of Medical School of Universidade de São Paulo
  • Director of Critical Patient Department of HCFMUSP Heart Institute
  • Member of Editorial Board of Clinics journal
  • Consultant for Manole Publishing Company
  • Ad-hoc consultant for Journal of Critical Care
International activity
2017
  • Speaker at 37th ISICEM - International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Brussels, Belgium, March 21-24, 2017
2016
  • 3rd SepsEast Conference, Budapest, Hungary, November 10-12, 2016
  • 36th ISICEM - International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Brussels, Belgium, March 15-18, 2016
2015
  • 35th ISICEM - International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Brussels, Belgium, March 17-20, 2015
2014
  • 34th ISICEM - International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Brussels, Belgium, March 18-21, 2014
2013
  • 33th ISICEM - International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Brussels, Belgium, March 19-22, 2013, for presentation of various free themes as referred in the Bibliographic Production, Works in Annals
Defended thesis and related articles

Title: Randomized trial of liberal and restrictive strategies of red blood cell transfusion in cardiac surgery

Advisor: José Otávio Costa Auler Junior

Date of defense: 06/24/2010


Hajjar LA, Vincent JL, Galas FRBG, Nakamura RE, Silva CMP, Santos MH. Transfusion requirements after cardiac surgery: the TRACS randomized controlled trial. JAMA The Journal of the American Medical Association 2010;304(14):1559-1567. http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2010.1446

Chan RP, Galas FR, Hajjar LA, Bello CN, Piccioni MA, Auler Jr JO. Intensive perioperative glucose control does not improve outcomes of patients submitted to open-heart surgery: a randomized controlled trial. Clinics (São Paulo). 2009;64(1):51-60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1807-59322009000100010

Auler JO Jr, Galas F, Hajjar L, Santos L, Carvalho T, Michard F. Online monitoring of pulse pressure variation to guide fluid therapy after cardiac surgery. Anesthesia & Analgesia 2008;106(4):1201-6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1213/01.ane.0000287664.03547.c6