Sibylle KIETAIBL 

After completing her medical studies at the University of Vienna in 1991, she was trained at the Department of Anaesthesiology, General Intensive Care and Pain Management at the Vienna Medical University, Austria. She became Professor in Anaesthesiology in 2000 and Chairwoman of the Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care at the Evangelic Hospital Vienna, Austria in 2008.

Dr. Kietaibl was president of the Austrian Society of Anaesthesiology (ÖGARI) 2011-2013, was member of the task force Perioperative Coagulation of the ÖGARI 2003-2018, was chairperson of Subcommittee 6 Transfusion & Haemostasis of the European Society of Anaesthesiologists (ESA) 2010-2012, member of the Guidelines Committee of the ESA 2013-2018, and she is Austrian delegate at the European Board of Anaesthesiology (EBA), standing committee education & professional development. 

She coordinated the ESA guidelines on the management of severe perioperative bleeding published 2013 and the update 2017. She is co-worker of the ESA guidelines on venous thromboprophylaxis 2018 and the ESA guidelines on regional anaesthesia under anticoagulation and perioperative venous thromboprophylaxis and she coordinates the update 2019. 

Dr. Kietaibl coordinated the multidisciplinary Austrian guidelines on preoperative patient evaluation (Bundesqualitätsleitlinie) 2013, on patient blood management (Qualitätsstandard) 2017, and a national guidance on the management of patients with hip-near fractures while on oral anticoagulants (klinischer Pfad) 2014 and 2016. 

She implemented many recommendations into applications for smartphones. Her major research interests are perioperative bleeding management, volume replacement, and postoperative pain. In 2009 she launched an innovative multi-media e-learning platform www.perioperativebleeding.org. She lectures at the Sigmund Freud Privatuniversität. She hold a Master of Science-course in Patient Blood Management at the Danube University-Krems. She wrote more than 100 peer reviewed articles and 30 chapters in national and international textbooks, published with the last name Kozek-Langenecker until marriage in summer 2017.