The Department of Anesthesiology has a multitude of opportunities to explore scientific clinical questions through our involvement in intra-operative anesthesia, acute and chronic pain management and OB anesthesia.

• Dr. John Rivard partnered with the Department of Surgery to explore two studies. He and Dr. Raphael Grossman looked at the “Optimal Anesthesia Regimen for Patients Undergoing Thyroid or Parathyroid Surgery to Improve Early Postop Discharge.”
• Dr. Rivard has also developed a study to define a protocol for “Optimal Anesthesia Regimen to Facilitate Same Day Discharge of Patients Undergoing Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy.”
• Dr. Kevin Klimek, as Regional Anesthesia Director, in conjunction with a former obstetric resident, presented a Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology (SOAP) poster on “The Effectivenes of Intrathecal Analgesia for Cerclage." Dr. Klimek is now formulating a study to look at “Combined Spinal Epidural Anesthesia with Single Shot Epidural Depodur for Total Hip Replacement.” He is also exploring “Optimal Duramorph Dosing in Combination with Continuous Femoral Nerve Block for Total Knee Arthroplasty.”
• A subgroup of anesthesiologists and I are participating in a multicenter, randomized, double blind study to investigate “The Effect of Aprotinin on Transfusion Requirements and Blood Loss in Patients Undergoing Elective Primary Total Hip Replacement Surgery.”
• In the arena of chronic pain management, Dr. Ed Washabaugh studied and presented, “Functional Improvement of Facet Arthropathy using Radiofrequency Denervation and Measured with SF-36.”

Rosalie Tocco-Bradley, Ph.D., M.D., Chair, Department of Anesthesiology

CLINICAL INVESTIGATORS

Roderick Beer, M.D., Anesthesiology
Andrew Caughey, M.D., Anesthesiology
Theodore Dushane, M.D., Ph.D., Anesthesiology
Kevin Klimek, M.D., Anesthesiology
John Rivard, M.D., Anesthesiology
Rosalie Tocco-Bradley, Ph.D., M.D., Chair, Dept of Anesthesiology
Edward Washabaugh, M.D., Anesthesiology