Publications

Prof. Dr. Şentürk has published more than 80 papers in peer-reviewed medical journals, including JAMA and The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. He has also authored books and book chapters in English and German.

His publications appear under the name Nüzhet Mert Şentürk. Persistent academic identifiers: ORCID 0000-0003-2373-6451, Scopus 6701599303.

Selected publications

• PROTHOR — higher versus lower PEEP during one-lung ventilation. Multicentre randomised trial. The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, 2026;14:17-28. (Second author; principal investigator of the trial)
• Monitoring in thoracic anesthesia — EACTAIC consensus document. Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia, 2026;40:985-993.
• Airway management in thoracic anesthesia — EACTAIC consensus document. Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia, 2026;40:1276-1287.
• Effect of intraoperative high PEEP with recruitment manoeuvres on postoperative pulmonary complications in obese patients (PROBESE). Randomised clinical trial. JAMA, 2019;321:2292-2305.
• International consensus recommendations for anesthetic and intensive care management of lung transplantation. An EACTAIC, SCA, ISHLT, ESOT, ESTS and AST approved document. The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 2021;40:1327-1348.
• Thoracic paravertebral block compared with erector spinae plane block and intercostal nerve block in thoracoscopic surgery. Randomised study. Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia, 2021;35:2920-2927.
• Association between enhanced recovery after surgery protocols and postoperative complications in colorectal surgery in Europe (EuroPOWER). International observational study. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, 2022;80:110752.

For book chapters and contributions, see the Books page.

Editorship

He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Perioperative Medicine.