Clinical Faculty

Guy De L. Dear, MB

Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Associate Professor in Pediatrics

Department:
Anesthesiology

Division:
Anesthesiology

Mailing Address:
DUMC 3094 Durham, NC 27710

Office Telephone:
919-681-4877

Fax:
919-681-4698

Training:
MB, St. George's University of London (United Kingdom), 1982-1984

Fellowship:
Pediatric Anesthesia, Hospital for Sick Children (London), 1984-1985

Residency:
Anesthesia, St. George's Hospital (United Kingdom), 1985-1986

Clinical Interests:
Pediatric anesthesiology, general anesthesiology, hyperbaric medicine

Research Interests:
Fitness to dive issues relating to divers with insulin requiring diabetes and other illnesses. I have just completed a major international workshop sponsored by the UHMS and DAN on diabetes and diving in 2005.

Epidemiology of Diving Incidents.  I am involved with the Divers Alert Network in basic research of the incidence, signs and symptoms of Decompression Illness.  We are developing statistical methods to examine both prospectively and retrospectively aspects of exposure that are related to Diving incidents.

Use of differing anesthesia techniques to deal with children with various inborn errors of metabolism.

Publications:
Dear GD, Ames WA, Eck JB, Ross AK, B. Weldon BC. Use of the Laryngeal Mask Airway for Pediatric Esophagogastroduodenoscopy: a Report of 1027 Cases. Anesthesiology 2007;A-1630

Dear GD, Pollock NW, Uguccioni DM, Dovenbarger J, Feinglos MN, Moon RE. Plasma Glucose Responses in Recreational Divers with Insulin-Requiring Diabetes. Undersea & Hyperbaric Med 2004; 31(3):291-301


Gan TJ, Ing R, Dear GD, Wright D, El-Moalem HE, Lubarsky D. How much are patients willing to pay to avoid intraoperative awareness? J Clin Anesth; 15:108-112

Dear GD, Kraft K, Stolp BW, Cronje FJ, Moon RE. Descriptive analysis of a comprehensive clinical hyperbaric database. Undersea Hyperbaric Med 2003; 30S:127

Moon RE, Dear GD, Stolp BW. Treatment of decompression illness and iatrogenic gas embolism. Resp Care Clin N Am 1999; 5:93-135.

Dear G de L, Panten RR, Lubarsky DA. Operating room information systems, Seminars in Anesthesia, Perioperative Medicine and Pain. Edited by Katz RL and Ward DS. Vol. 18, No. 4 (December), 1999; p. 322-333.