Dr. Plamen Ivanov – Anesthesiologist

Dr. Plamen Ivanov was born in Stara Zagora in 1989. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of Trakia University - Stara Zagora in 2014. He obtained a specialty in "Anesthesiology and Intensive Care" in 2019. Dr. Ivanov is currently part of the medical sleep treatment team of the Medical Center "Aesthetics" and the KAIL team at the University Hospital "Prof. Dr. Stoyan Kirkovich". He is a member of the Bulgarian Medical Association and the Society of Anesthesiologists in Bulgaria.

Dr. Ivanov has been a Republican Consultant in Anesthesiology and Intensive Care (AIC) since June 2023. In his practice, he has participated in a number of clinical studies related to the use of antibiotics in intra-abdominal infections and antiviral drugs in COVID-19, as well as in a number of AIC courses in the field of:

• Pediatric Surgery (University Hospital of Medical Sciences "N.I. Pirogov", Sofia)
• Burns and plastic surgery (University Hospital of Medical Sciences "N.I. Pirogov", Sofia)
• Resuscitation (University Hospital "Aleksandrovska", Sofia)
• Resuscitation and intensive care in emergency medicine
• Obstetrics and gynecology
• General surgery
• Orthopedics and traumatology
• Thoracic surgery
• Vascular surgery
• Neurosurgery
• Urology
• Cardiology and Pulmonology
• ENT and maxillofacial surgery
• Dental medicine (Dental Clinic "Dr. Cvety", Sofia)

During dental procedures under medical sleep in the dental clinic, Dr. Plamen Ivanov conducts the initial consultations and provides guidance on all necessary examinations and for assessing the possibility of the patient being subjected to general anesthesia. During anesthesia and during the operation, he continuously monitors the main vital signs (heart rate and rhythm, blood oxygen saturation and arterial blood pressure, temperature, etc.). In the dental clinic, we have special equipment with which we monitor the depth of anesthesia in children.

When the surgery is over and the patient wakes up, he is taken out of the operating room, accompanied by the anesthesiologist and the anesthesiology nurse, to the "wake-up" room, where the anesthesia team waits for the effects of anesthesia to fully wear off.

If the patient is a child, a parent is called to the recovery room and stays with their child until they fully recover from anesthesia. When sending a patient, the anesthesiologist gives recommendations on how to start feeding after surgery and what fluid intake should be.