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PAEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE · AKDENİZ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

Doç. Dr. Alper Köker

Associate Professor at the Department of Paediatrics (paediatric intensive care) · Akdeniz University Hospital, Antalya
Associate professor at the Department of Paediatrics, Akdeniz University Faculty of Medicine; specialist in paediatric intensive care. Specialises in renal replacement therapy in critically ill children (CRRT), nutritional support in the ICU, point-of-care echocardiography, and continuous EEG monitoring. In 2025, co-author of a JAMA Network Open paper on renal replacement therapy in children with crush syndrome following the 2023 earthquake. Completed observerships in paediatric intensive care at the American Family Children’s Hospital (Wisconsin) and Boston Children’s Hospital (Harvard).
Specialties: Paediatrics
17+
years of experience
127
publications
455
citations
h=10
Scopus
JAMA Network Open 2025ESPNIC memberBoston Children’s observershipTÜBİTAK grant 2021
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CONSULTATION LANGUAGES
RU Russian · via BergemHealth coordinator
TR Turkish · native
EN English · professionally
ANTALYA · 05/2026
AWARDS & RECOGNITION
  • ★
    2025
    JAMA Network Open publication (Crush Syndrome AKI after the Türkiye earthquakes)
    JAMA Network
    Co-author
  • ★
    2022
    Young Investigator Scientific Award
    Turkish Society of Paediatric Emergency Medicine and Intensive Care (CAYD)
PROCEDURE SPECTRUM

What Doç. Dr. Alper Köker does

Modern resuscitation methods in critically ill children.

  • 01
    Haemodialysis and CRRT in children
    Renal replacement therapy
  • 02
    Plasmapheresis
    In sepsis and autoimmune crises
  • 03
    Point-of-care ultrasound / echocardiography (POCUS)
    Bedside diagnosis
  • 04
    Continuous EEG monitoring
    In the ICU
DATA UPDATED: MAY 2026
EDUCATION & CAREER

Timeline

Career milestones.

2020
Akdeniz University
Associate professor (Doç.) appointment
2023
Türkiye earthquake
Participation in the medical response
2025
JAMA Network Open
Co-author on the crush syndrome paper
2013-2017
Dokuz Eylül University
Paediatric intensive care subspecialty training
2007
Akdeniz University
Medical school graduation
PUBLICATIONS

Scientific work

127 publications, 455 citations, h=10 (AVESIS / Scopus).

  • 2024
    American Journal of Infection Control
    «International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) report of health care associated infections, data summary of 45 countries for 2015 to 2020»
    · co-author
  • 2024
    American Journal of Infection Control
    «Decreasing central line-associated bloodstream infections rates in intensive care units in 30 low- and middle-income countries: An INICC approach»
    · co-author
  • 2023
    Child's Nervous System
    «Posttraumatic epilepsy in critically ill children with traumatic brain injury»
    · co-author
  • 2022
    Acta Paediatrica
    «Epidemiology of paediatric severe sepsis and septic shock in Turkey: Prevalence, results and treatments study»
    · co-author
  • 2020
    Archives de Pediatrie
    «Assessment of PELOD-2 and PIM-3 scores of children coming from the war in Syria»
    · first author
  • 2018
    Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health
    «Early initiated feeding versus early reached target enteral nutrition in critically ill children»
    · co-author
CLINIC

Where they practise

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Akdeniz University Hospital
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