Antonina SONDORE

Docent, Dr.med. Antonina SONDORE Department of Anaesthesiology and Reanimatology Riga Stradins University (RSU) Dzirciema iela 16, Riga, LV 1007 Latvia Phone: +371 7611467, +371 7613526, +371 7069585            mob. +371 9471008 Fax: +371 7611168, +371 7212515, +371 7069541 E-mail: antonina-sondore@hotmail.com, a.sondore@stradini.lv

Born: October 11, 1936, Russia

• General Anaesthesia
• Loco-regional Anaesthesia + Pain Therapy
• Intensive Care
• Disaster Medicine
• Education in Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care

Languages: Latvian, Russian, German, English

• Riga Medical Institute (Faculty of Medicine), 1960
• Post-graduate training course in Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care at Riga District Hospital 289, 1962
• Training course in Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Leningrad Institute for Advanced Medical Studies, 1964
• Fellowship in Anaesthesiology and Reanimatology, Medical Academy of Latvia, 1965-1967
• Dr.med. (Anaesthesiology-Reanimatology) (Candidate of Science in former USSR, Ph.D. in Western countries), Riga Medical Institute, 1970

• Anaesthetist, Latvian Republic Osteotuberculosis Hospital , 1960-1965

Riga Medical Institute/ Medical Academy of Latvia/ Riga Stradins University -

• Fellowship in Anaesthesiology-Reanimatology, 1965-1967
• Junior Researcher, Department of Experimental Surgery, 1967-1973
• Senior Researcher, Department of Experimental Surgery , 1973-1976
• Assistant, Department of Anaesthesiology and Reanimatology, 1976-1980
• Docent, Department of Anaesthesiology & Reanimatology, 1980 -2001; Associate Professor, 2002 -

• Academician of European Academy of Anaesthesiology, 2002
• International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England. Sertificate of 3d May 2001 “2000 Outstanding Scientists of the 21 Century in honour of an Outstanding Contribution in the field of Anaesthesiology- Reanimatology “
• 2000 Outstanding scientists of the 21^st Century.Ed. Intern.Biograph. Centre, Cambridge, 2002, First ed., p.350

• Member of World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists( WFSA)
• Member of European Society of Anaesthesiology (ESA)
• Member of the Council of the European Society of Anaesthesiology ( ESA Council) for 2006-2007
• Member of the Board of presidents of the National Anaesthesia Societies Committee of the European Society of Anaesthesiology ( ESA-NASC)
• Representative of Latvia in the UEMS-EBA ( Union European Medical Specialist Committee-European Board of Anaesthesiology)
• Member of International Anaesthesia Research Society (IARS)
• President, Member of the Board, Latvian Association of Anaesthesiologists, Reanimatologists
• Member of Latvian Society for Study and Therapy of Pain
• Member of the Sertification Committee of the Latvian Society for Study and Therapy of Pain
• Coordinator of the Latvian Regional Centre of the Foundation for European Education in Anaesthesiology
• Director of the Latvian Centre “European Diploma in Anaesthesiology-Intensive Care”
• President of the 1st International Baltic Congress of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care, 6-10 th December,  2005, Riga.

Courses

• Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Medical Academy of Latvia
• Emergency Medicine, Latvian Center of Disaster Medicine

Altogether 265 publications, including 1 monograph, 5 textbooks, 9 educational issues, 1 invention.

2003-2005: 40 publications, 15 presntations at International Congresses.

Monograph:

• Basic Anaesthesia in Questions and Answers, Riga, 2001, 464 pp.

Textbooks:

• Surgery (co-author) , Riga, 2001, pp. 98-103; 112-128; 128-142
• Tests for Emergency and Disaster Medicine (co-author), Riga, 2001
• Trauma (co-author), Riga, 2001, pp 45-81; 325-345
• Advanced Cardiopulmonary Life Support ( co-author), Riga, 2003, pp.327-367
• “RESUSCITATION”- ATDZIVINAŠANA. Chapter “The management of airway and breathing”. Riga, ed. Emergency medicine, centre, 1st ed., 2003, 327-367
• “RESUSCITATION”-ATDZIVINAŠANA. Chapter “The management of airway and breathing”. Riga, ed. Emergency medicine centre, 2nd ed., 2004, 69 pp.

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• Intensive therapy for hepatic coma (with co-auth). - Critical Care Medicine (USA), 1975, 36, pp. 220-229.
• Aspects of anaesthetic management of heterologous extracorporeal hepatic supports in patients with acute liver failure (with co-auth.). - Resuscitation (London), 1975, vol. 4, pp. 87-95.
• Donors' Problems in Organ Transplantation (co-auth. R.Rozenthal, V.Sobolev), 1987, Riga: Zvaigzne, 167 pp. (in Russian).
• Anaesthesiological problems during renal transplantation (co-auth. V.Rozite). - Latvian Physician, 1990, vol. 5, pp. 26-30 (in Latvian).
• Anaesthesia for renal transplantation in Latvia. ( co-auth. V.Rozite, I.Vitola, I.Matulena). - 9th European Congress of Anaesthesiologists, 1993, Ierusalem, Israel.
• Midazolam in Anaesthesiology (co-auth. I.Vanags, E.Daugulis). - Latvian Physician, 1996, vol. 1, pp. 42-45 (in Latvian).
• Nonsteroid Antiinflammatory drugs in Anaesthesiology. - Latvian Physician,1996,12, pp. 870-873 (in Latvian).
• Clinical evaluation of total intravenous anaesthesia with midazolam - ketamin - fenthanyl for gynaecological laparoscopy. - British J. Anaesthesia, 1996, vol.76, suppl. 1.2., p. 11.
• Actualities in Anaesthesiology.Postoperative nausea and vomiting. Part I. Ethiology.- Jums, kole'gi (For You, Colleague), 1997, 9, pp. 13-16.
• Actualities in Anaesthesiology. Postoperative nausea and vomiting. Part II. Prophylaxis and treatment. - Jums, kole'gi (For You, Colleague), 1997, 10, pp. 28-32.
• Acute Postoperative Pain. Part I . - Jums, kole'gi (For You, Colleague), 1998, 4, pp. 20-26
• Acute Postoperative Pain.  Part II - Jums, kole'gi (For You, Colleague), 1998, 5, pp. 32-39.
• The clinical pharmacology of isoflurane and the first experience of its usage in Latvia ( co-auth. I.Vanags, I.Kokars). - Latvijas Arstu Zurnals (Latvian Physician’s Magazine), 1998, 5, pp. 33-36.
• The neuromuscular and clinical effects of miorelaxant mivacurium (co-auth. I.Vanags, I.Kokars). Latvijas Arstu Zurnals (Latvian Physician’s Magazine), 1998, 8, pp. 22-25.
• Diprivan (propofol)-the novel anaesthetic.Its choise in clinical practice (co-auth.I.Vanags, I.Kokars). Latvijas Arstu Zurnals (Latvian Physician’s Magazine), 1998, 12, pp. 25-31
• Olfen ( Diclofenac Sodium) for postoperative analgesia after gynaecological surgery (co-auth. I.Vanags, I.Kokars). - British J. Anaesth., 1998, vol. 80, N 5, pp. 182-183.
• The anaesthesiological aspects of laparoscopic surgery. - Jums, kole'gi (For You, Colleague), 1999, 4.
• The novel inhalation anaesthetic sevoflurane in anaesthesiological practice. - Latvijas Arstu Zurnals (Latvian Physician’s Magazine), 2000, 2, pp. 13-17.
• The anaesthesiological aspects of laparoscopy ( co-auth.I.Vanags). - Latvijas Arstu Zurnals (Latvian Physician’s Magazine), 2000, 4, pp. 44-45
• The actualities of the anaesthesiological management of gynaecological laparoscopy (co-auth.I.Vanags.I.Kokars). -  - AML/RSU Scientific Papers, Part I. Surgery, Farmacy, Stomatology, 2000, pp. 27-30.
• The anaesthesiological aspects of Diabetes Mellitus.-  Jums, kole'gi (For You, Colleague), 2000, 9, pp. 4-14.
• Conscious sedation techniques with benzodiazepines during regional anaesthesia. - In: 1^st ESRA Baltic Meeting, 28-29 April 2000, Refresher Course Lectures, Free Papers, Riga, 2000, pp. 13-20.
• The frequency ,complications and prophylaxis of pulmonary trombembolism (co-auth.L.Feldmane, I.Strumpfa). - Latvijas Arstu Zurnals (Latvian Physician’s Magazine), 2001,12, pp. 11-15.
• The strategy of anaesthesiological practice in the treatment of postoperative pain therapy. - In: The Treatment of Pain,  Riga, 2001, pp. 62-67.
• Problems encountered for the anaesthesiologists training in Eastern Europe countries. - Minerva Italica, 2001, vol. 67, Suppl.1, 5, 39-40
• The evaluation o the treatment methods of pain (co-auth. I.Vanags). - In: The   Treatment of Pain, Riga, 2001, pp. 68-71 
• The evolution of human resourse needs in Europe (co-auth. Ph.Scherpreel, Lille, France). - In: Best Practice&Research Clinical Anaesthesiology, 2002, vol.16, Nr 3, pp. 443-457.
• Thirty years of clinical experience with hyperbaric oxygenation .- Acta Anaesth. Scand., 2003, 116, pp. 98-99(co-auth.)
• Acute pain in treatment after gynaecological surgery with new methods in Latvia. - Acta Anaesth.Scand., 2003, 116, vol.47, pp.108-109(co-auth.).
• Log-book or training portfolio.How to assess the practice skills of a rezident? - Proc. 13th World Congress of Anaesthesiologists, Paris, 2004, 18-23 th April, Nr. CO 79b.
• Risks to anaesthesia providers and occupational stress.- Proc. 13th World Congress of Anaesthesiologists, Paris, 2004, 18-23 th April, Nr. S 181(co-auth.).
• Treatment of carbon monoxide with hyperbaric oxygen. - Proc. 13th World Congress of Anaesthesiologists, Paris, 2004, 18-23th April, Nr.PO 966(co-auth.).
• Efficacy of rofecoxib ( VIOXX) in prophylaxis of acute postoperative pain. - Proc. 13th World Congress of Anaesthesiologists, Paris, 18-23th April 2004, Nr.PO 025   (co-auth.).
• Mortality and morbidity from carbon monoxide intoxication in Latvia during 2002- 2004 and effectiveness of HBO treatment at 182.4-202. 7 kpa for 60 minutes.- Proc. XV International Congress of Hyperbaric Medicine, Barcelona, 7-10th September, P504( co-auth.).
• Mortality and pathomorphological findings caused by fatal Carbon Monoxide poisoning in Riga during 2002-2004. - Rechtsmedizin, 2005, 4, p.339, P172( co-auth.).
• The use of entropy in the monitoring of the depth of anaesthesia. - European J.of Anaesthesiology, 2005, vol.22, suppl. 34, 4, A88 ( co-auth.)

• Anaesthesia for Gynaecological Laparoscopy (Head of Project - E.Daugulis). Latvian Council of Science (1996-1998).
• A.Sondore (Head of Project). Therapeutic Effectiveness of Hyperbaric Oxygenation in the Treatment of Posthypoxic and Postischemic Pathology.  Latvian Council of Science ( 2004 - 2006).

Married, 2 children, 3 grandchildren.

Last update 22.01.2006