Professor Yahya Shehabi

Pain relief and sedation – Dexmedetomidine. Why, where, when, and how to use it

Professor Yahya Shehabi, a fellow of the College of Intensive Care Medicine and ANZCA, is a practicing specialist in intensive care and anaesthesia. He’s a current professor and director of research, critical care and perioperative medicine at Monash University, and a professor of intensive care medicine at the University of New South Wales. He’s the lead chief investigator and the architect of the NHMRC funded SPICE III and SPICE IV RCTs, the largest ICU sedation trials so far. Yahya has extensively published on delirium and sedation related issues and is a renowned world authority in the field.