Research News

From a first place finish at Run For The Warriors to the reveal of the 2018 DREAM Innovation Grant recipients, it was another successful ASA meeting for Duke Anesthesiology! View snapshots and read the full recap from Boston!

In a quest to continuously measure pulse oximetry in hikers and study alternative strategies for treating hypoxia in patients, Drs. Richard Moon and Eugene Moretti describe their 11-day trek in the Himalayas.

It was another successful ASA meeting for Duke Anesthesiology! Read the full recap and view snapshots from the alumni event and the first place finish at Run For The Warriors!

It’s another step toward global health as Duke Anesthesiology helped kick off this year’s conference in Singapore, “Value Creation in Anesthesia: Staying Ahead of the Curve.”

We would like to recognize all of our faculty, residents, fellows and staff who have made this year’s American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Conference in San Diego a huge success! Duke Anesthesiology made a big impression at this year’s event with faculty and staff taking part in at least 79 general and special lectures, workshops and abstract presentations. Please join us in congratulating Dr. David Warner for receiving the FAER Anesthesiology Mentoring Excellence in Research Award and Dr. Browndyke for winning Best of Abstracts: Clinical Science.

Neurointerventional Regional Anesthesia to Improve Hand Rehabilitation in Stroke

Collaboration between investigators from anesthesiology, physical therapy, neurology, and the Brain Imaging and Analysis Center continues as planned.  Having completed manuscripts related to our preliminary fMRI investigation in healthy, human subjects, our current focus is on translating data from this work to the current project in stroke-affected individuals.

Pharmacogenomics of β-blockers: Implication for Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation

The purpose of our study is to identify genetic variations in human genes that are responsible for modulating the efficacy of beta-blockers for the prevention of postoperative atrial fibrillation after heart surgery. For the purposes of the present study, we are using isolated DNA and human heart tissue from patients who underwent coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery at Duke University Medical Center.

Cardiopulmonary Bypass-Induced Inflammatory Changes in the Atrial Wall: The Novel Role for Cardiac Chymase produced Angiotensin II in the Development of Atrial Fibrillation

Atrial fibrillation is a common complication following cardiac surgery because of the use of the heart-lung machine. Previously, it has been very difficult to make advances in treating this complication because of our inability to reproduce atrial fibrillation in animals, thereby hindering our ability to study what factors are the root causes of its development.

Comparative effectiveness in Perioperative and Critical Care Medicine: Crystalloid Fluid Therapy

Different types of  Intravenous Fluids are widely used for the treatment of patients with serious infections who are admitted to the ICU. The conventional comparison has always been between fluids called, “crystalloids,” versus, “colloids.” Despite years of debate, these types of fluids have proved equivalent.

Elucidating Adaptive Mechanisms of Perioperative Cardioprotection Following Ischemia-reperfusion in Hibernating Arctic Ground Squirrels

The overall goal of this study was to understand how hibernating animals have developed natural defense mechanisms to withstand extremes of environment, and to ultimately apply this knowledge for organ protection in humans undergoing heart surgery.