The Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School was established in 1976. In 2016, the name of the department was officially changed to the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine. This collection showcases the journal articles and other publications and presentations written by faculty and researchers of the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
Publications from 2020
Commentary: The molecular pandemonium of coronavirus disease 2019, Leora B. Balsam and William Hoffman
Design and Testing of a Novel Communication System for Non-Vocal Critical Care Patients With Limited Manual Dexterity, Miriam A. Goldberg
Publications from 2019
Efficacy and Tolerability of Adjunctive Intravenous Sodium Nitroprusside Treatment for Outpatients With Schizophrenia: A Randomized Clinical Trial, Hannah E. Brown, Oliver Freudenreich, Xiaoduo Fan, Stephen O. Heard, Donald Goff, George Petrides, Amy Harrington, John M. Kane, Heidi Judge, Bettina Hoeppner, Maurizio Fava, and Roy H. Perlis
RE: Preventability of hospital onset bacterermia and fungemia: A pilot study of potential healthcare-associated infection outcome measure, by Dantes et al (2019), Anna M. Civitarese, Eric Ruggieri, Debbie Mack, Stephen O. Heard, Michael Mitchell, Craig M. Lilly, Karen E. Landry, Richard T. Ellison III, and J Matthias Walz
Opioid Use and Respiratory Compromise in the Interventional Suite: A Wake-up Call, Max P. Rosen and J. Matthias Walz
Publications from 2018
Frozen in Time: A History of the Synthesis of Nitrous Oxide and How the Process Remained Unchanged for Over 2 Centuries, Alexander Buslov, Matthew Carroll, and Manisha S. Desai
The Use and Relevance of the Hippocratic Oath in 2015-a Survey of US Medical Schools, Shernaz S. Dossabhoy, Jessica Feng, and Manisha S. Desai
A Chronology for the Identification and Disclosure of Adverse Effects of Succinylcholine, Lisa Huang, Christine N. Sang, and Manisha S. Desai
Popular Literature as an Educational Aid for History of Anesthesia, Eun Kyung Ellen Kim, Bronwyn Cooper, and Manisha S. Desai
William James, Nitrous Oxide, and the Anaesthetic Revelation, Jane S. Moon, Catherine M. Kuza, and Manisha S. Desai
Morphine versus fentanyl patient-controlled analgesia for postoperative pain control in major hepatic resection surgeries including living liver donors: A retrospective study, Eman M. Nada and Abdulmajeed Alabdulkareem
Publications from 2017
Randomized Controlled Study of a Remote Flipped Classroom Neuro-otology Curriculum, Frederick Robert Carrick, Mahera Abdulrahman, Ahmed Hankir, Maksim Zayaruzny, Kinda Najem, Palita Lungchukiet, and Roger A. Edwards
The Estimated Verbal GCS Subscore in Intubated Traumatic Brain Injury Patients: Is it Really Better, Katarina Cheng, Ribal Bassil, Raphael A. Carandang, Wiley R. Hall, and Susanne Muehlschlegel
A 10-Year Review of Total Hospital-Onset ICU Bloodstream Infections at an Academic Medical Center, Anna M. Civitarese, Eric Ruggieri, J. Matthias Walz, Debbie Mack, Stephen O. Heard, Michael Mitchell, Craig M. Lilly, Karen Landry, and Richard T. Ellison III
NOTCH3 regulates stem-to-mural cell differentiation in infantile hemangioma, Andrew K. Edwards, Kyle Glithero, Peter Grzesik, Alison A. Kitajewski, Naikhoba C.O. Munabi, Krista Hardy, Qian Kun Tan, Michael Schonning, Thaned Kangsamaksin, Jan K. Kitajewski, Carrie J. Shawber, and June K. Wu
Beyond Ether and Chloroform-A Major Breakthrough With Halothane, Lisa Huang, Christine N. Sang, and Manisha S. Desai
What Families Need and Physicians Deliver: Contrasting Communication Preferences Between Surrogate Decision-Makers and Physicians During Outcome Prognostication in Critically Ill TBI Patients, Thomas Quinn, Jesse Moskowitz, Muhammad A. Khan, Lori Shutter, Robert J. Goldberg, Nananda Col, Kathleen M. Mazor, and Susanne Muehlschlegel
Microvascular response to transfusion in elective spine surgery, J. Matthias Walz, Ottokar Stundner, Federico P. Girardi, Bruce A. Barton, Aimee R. Kroll-Desrosiers, Stephen O. Heard, and Stavros G. Memtsoudis
Publications from 2016
The Modified Apnea Test During Brain Death Determination: An Alternative in Patients With Hypoxia, Aditi Ahlawat, Raphael A. Carandang, Stephen O. Heard, and Susanne Muehlschlegel
Adipose-derived human stem/stromal cells: comparative organ specific mitochondrial bioenergy profiles, Alice S. Ferng, Katherine M. Marsh, Jamie M. Fleming, Renee F. Conway, David Schipper, Naing Bajaj, Alana M. Connell, Tia Pilikian, Kitsie Johnson, Ray Runyan, Stephen M. Black, John A. Szivek, and Zain Khalpey
The Perioperative Surgical Home: A New Paradigm in a Surgical Episode of Care, Valerie Konar, Judith Steinberg, Shubjeet Kaur, Mitchell H. Sokoloff, and Sai Cherala
Life after acute fibrinous and organizing pneumonia: a case report of a patient 30 months after diagnosis and review of the literature, Catherine Kuza, Theofilos Matheos, Deirdre Kathman, and Stephen O. Heard
Primary Care and the Perioperative Surgical Home, Jennifer Yates, Judith L. Steinberg, Valerie Konar, Shubjeet Kaur, and Mitchell H. Sokoloff
Publications from 2015
History of Medicine in US Medical School Curricula, Justin Caramiciu, David Arcella, and Manisha S. Desai
Elimination of waste: creation of a successful Lean colonoscopy program at an academic medical center, Aneel Damle, Nathan Andrew, Shubjeet Kaur, Alan Orquiola, Karim Alavi, Scott R. Steele, and Justin A. Maykel
Discovery of Modern Anesthesia: A Counterfactual Narrative about Crawford W. Long, Horace Wells, Charles T. Jackson, and William T. G. Morton, Manisha S. Desai and Sukumar P. Desai
Hand hygiene knowledge and perceptions among anesthesia providers, Patrick G. Fernandez, Randy W. Loftus, Thomas M. Dodds, Matthew D. Koff, Sundara Reddy, Stephen O. Heard, Michael L. Beach, Mark P. Yeager, and Jeremiah R. Brown
Transmission dynamics of gram-negative bacterial pathogens in the anesthesia work area, Randy W. Loftus, Jeremiah R. Brown, Hetal M. Patel, Matthew D. Koff, Jens T. Jensen, Sundara Reddy, Kathryn L. Ruoff, Stephen O. Heard, Thomas M. Dodds, Michael L. Beach, and Mark P. Yeager
The dynamics of Enterococcus transmission from bacterial reservoirs commonly encountered by anesthesia providers, Randy W. Loftus, Matthew D. Koff, Jeremiah R. Brown, Hetal M. Patel, Jens T. Jensen, Sundara Reddy, Kathryn L. Ruoff, Stephen O. Heard, Mark P. Yeager, and Thomas M. Dodds
The epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus transmission in the anesthesia work area, Randy W. Loftus, Matthew D. Koff, Jeremiah R. Brown, Hetal M. Patel, Jens T. Jensen, Sundara Reddy, Kathryn L. Ruoff, Stephen O. Heard, Mark P. Yeager, and Thomas M. Dodds
Blood Transfusions May Have Limited Effect on Muscle Oxygenation After Total Knee Arthroplasty, Stavros G. Memtsoudis, Thomas Danninger, Ottokar Stundner, Daniel Yoo, Federico P. Girardi, Friedrich Boettner, Isabelle Kao, Kara G. Fields, Michael K. Urban, Stephen O. Heard, and J. Matthias Walz
T2 magnetic resonance assay for the rapid diagnosis of candidemia in whole blood: a clinical trial, Eleftherios Mylonakis, Cornelius J. Clancy, Luis Ostrosky-Zeichner, Kevin W. Garey, George J. Alangaden, Jose A. Vazquez, Jeffrey S. Groeger, Marc A. Judson, Yuka-Marie Vinagre, Stephen O. Heard, Fainareti N. Zervou, Ioannis M. Zacharioudakis, Dimitrios P. Kontoyiannis, and Peter G. Pappas
The bundle "plus": the effect of a multidisciplinary team approach to eradicate central line-associated bloodstream infections, J. Matthias Walz, Richard T. Ellison III, Deborah A. Mack, Helen M. Flaherty, John K. McIlwaine, Kathleen G. Whyte, Karen E. Landry, Stephen P. Baker, and Stephen O. Heard
Publications from 2014
Effects of an in-house coordinator and practitioner referral rather than proxy referral on tissue donation rates, Justin A. Caramiciu, Janice P. Adams, Brendan P. McKown, Corinne D. French, E. R. Ruggieri, and Stephen O. Heard
Alternate methods to teach history of anesthesia, Manisha S. Desai and Sukumar P. Desai
Critical care in patients undergoing lumbar spine fusion: a population-based study, Stavros G. Memtsoudis, Ottokar Stundner, Xuming Sun, Ya-Lin Chiu, Yan Ma, Peter Fleischut, Gregory E. Kerr, Federico P. Girardi, and J. Matthias Walz
Preliminary evaluation of near infrared spectroscopy as a method to detect plasma leakage in children with dengue hemorrhagic fever, Babs R. Soller, Anon Srikiatkhachorn, Fengmei Zou, Alan L. Rothman, In-Kyu Yoon, Robert V. Gibbons, Siripen Kalayanarooj, Stephen J. Thomas, and Sharone Green
Publications from 2013
Sites and artifacts related to Horace Wells in Hartford, Connecticut, Antonio Aponte-Feliciano, Sukumar P. Desai, and Manisha S. Desai
William James Morton (1845 – 1920): Like Father, Like Son?, Antonio Aponte-Feliciano, Sukumar P. Desai, and Manisha S. Desai
Intraoperative echocardiographic images of right ventricular outflow tract sarcoma, Rana Badr and Shubjeet Kaur
Physician Referral Rather than Proxy Referral to an Organ Procurement Organization Following Asystolic Death Results in Higher Tissue Donation Rates, Justin A. Caramiciu, Janice P. Adams, Brendan P. McKown, Corinne D. French, Stephen P. Baker, and Stephen O. Heard
Medical History for Anesthesiologists: Continuation of a Primer, Manisha S. Desai and Sukumar P. Desai
A Retrospective Analysis of Opioid Consumption Among Different Orthopedic Surgeons for Total Joint Replacement, Costas J. Gioules, Hayden B. Rockson, Russell M. Flatto, Arnel J. Almeda, and Anthony L. Schwagerl
Publications from 2012
Horace Wells Memorials in the City of Hartford, Connecticut, Antonio Aponte-Feliciano, Sukumar P. Desai, and Manisha S. Desai
Can a detailed neurological exam improve prediction of extubation success in neurocritically ill patients?, Sanam Baghshomali, Nathanael Slater, Raphael A. Carandang, Cynthia Ouillette, Wiley R. Hall, and Susanne Muehlschlegel
Sunday, Bloody Sunday: Unanticipated Ascending Aortic Dissection and Grafting After Coming Off CPB for CABG, Jason Blue and Rana Badr
Anesthetic Considerations for Cervical Fusion Surgery in Advanced Rheumatoid Arthritis and Severe Pulmonary Hypertension, Robert Canelli, John P. Weaver, and Elifce Cosar
Duration of CPR: How Long is Too Long? A Positive Outcome After 90 Minutes of CPR, Laura Cohen and Shubjeet Kaur
Mount Auburn Cemetery and its importance to the history of anesthesia, Bronwyn Cooper and Sukumar P. Desai
Ultrasound as a Modality for Detection and Treatment of an Ilioinguinal Neuroma, Adam Currier and Issam Khayata
Delayed Emergence from General Anesthesia, Jose De Leon, Betty Medeiros-Beattie, Stephen O. Heard, and Antonio Aponte-Feliciano
The teaching of anesthesia history in US residency programs: results of a nationwide survey, Manisha S. Desai, Shirish R. Chennaiahgari, and Sukumar P. Desai
Alternative Methods to Teach History of Anesthesia, Manisha S. Desai and Sukumar P. Desai
Announcing the 19th Spring Meeting of the Anesthesia History Association - May 2-4, 2013, Hartford, Connecticut, Manisha S. Desai and Sukumar P. Desai
Primer on Medical History for Anesthesiologists: Introduction, Manisha S. Desai and Sukumar P. Desai
Paraplegia Following Pneumonectomy and Descending Thoracic Aorta Mass Resection, Layla Fakhrzadeh, Elifce Cosar, Christian Mueller, and Nicholas C. Watson
Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura or Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation? Diagnostic Dilemma in the ICU, Lindsay Gittens, Katherine Metcalf, and Nicholas C. Watson
Post-Anesthesia Evaluation: Using a Systems Based Team Approach to Achieve Compliance with CMS Interpretive Guidelines, Shubjeet Kaur, Issam Khayata, Patricia M. Amelin, and Stephen O. Heard
Patient Flow in Peri-Operative Services: Analysis of Factors that Impact OR Turn Over Time, Shubjeet Kaur, Shimul A. Shah, John J. Wixted, Costin Catalin Negroiu, and Stephen O. Heard
The Use of Ultrasound to Measure the Depth of Thoracic Epidural Space, Issam Khayata, Gustavo Angaramo, Robert Lee, Costin Catalin Negroiu, Alexandr Zilber, and Patricia M. Amelin
Mobile Anesthesia: Ready, Set, Pack, and Go, Issam Khayata and Jesse Bourque
Antibiotic-Induced Thrombocytopenia in the ICU: Case Report of a Diagnostic Challenge, Spiro Khoury and Nicholas C. Watson
Management of a Patient with an Encapsulated Parapneumonic Empyema Complicated by the Intraoperative Development of an Acute Bronchopleural Fistula and ARDS, Nancy Lee and Stephen O. Heard
Multiple reservoirs contribute to intraoperative bacterial transmission, Randy W. Loftus, Jeremiah R. Brown, Matthew D. Koff, Sundara Reddy, Stephen O. Heard, Hetal M. Patel, Patrick G. Fernandez, Michael L. Beach, Howard L. Corwin, Jens T. Jensen, David Kispert, Bridget Huysman, Thomas M. Dodds, Kathryn L. Ruoff, and Mark P. Yeager
Diastrophic Dwarf with a Difficult Airway and Malignant Hyperthermia for Urgent Cesarean Section, Tanya Lucas
Impact of medical and neurological ICU complications on moderate-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), Susanne Muehlschlegel, Raphael A. Carandang, Cynthia Ouillette, Wiley R. Hall, Frederick A. Anderson Jr., and Robert J. Goldberg
Incidence rates of ICU complications in moderate-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), Susanne Muehlschlegel, Raphael A. Carandang, Cynthia Ouillette, Wiley R. Hall, Frederick A. Anderson Jr., and Robert J. Goldberg
Polymorphisms in the myeloperoxidase gene locus are associated with acute kidney injury-related outcomes, Mary C. Perianayagam, Hocine Tighiouart, Orfeas Liangos, Diana Kouznetsov, Ron Wald, Fangwen Rao, Daniel T. O'Connor, and Bertrand L. Jaber
Point of Care Testing Error in the ICU, Nicholas Petrinec, Bree Huning, and Nicholas C. Watson
Serum sodium values and their association with adverse outcomes in moderate-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), Lucia Rivera Lara, Susanne Muehlschlegel, Raphael A. Carandang, Cynthia Ouillette, Wiley R. Hall, Frederick A. Anderson Jr., and Robert J. Goldberg
Contributions of ancient Indian physicians--implications for modern times, J. Singh, Manisha S. Desai, C. S. Pandav, and Sukumar P. Desai
Transfusion-Related Acute Lung Injury during Liver Transplant: Case Report, Nathanael Slater and Nicholas C. Watson
Lightweight noninvasive trauma monitor for early indication of central hypovolemia and tissue acidosis: a review, Babs R. Soller, Fengmei Zou, Kathy L. Ryan, Caroline A. Rickards, Kevin R. Ward, and Victor A. Convertino
Point: should an anesthesiologist be the specialist of choice in managing the difficult airway in the ICU? Yes, J. Matthias Walz
Rebuttal from Dr. Walz, J. Matthias Walz
Effect of a Multidisciplinary Team Approach to Eradicate Central Line Associated Blood-Stream Infections (CLABSI), J. Matthias Walz, Richard T. Ellison III, Helen Flaherty, John McIlwaine, Deborah Ann Mack, Kathleen Whyte, Karen Landry, Stephen P. Baker, Stephen O. Heard, and CCOC Research Group
Likert or not, we are biased, Nicholas C. Watson
An evaluation of the diagnostic accuracy of the 1991 American College of Chest Physicians/Society of Critical Care Medicine and the 2001 Society of Critical Care Medicine/European Society of Intensive Care Medicine/American College of Chest Physicians/American Thoracic Society/Surgical Infection Society sepsis definition, Huifang Zhao, Stephen O. Heard, Marie T. Mullen, Sybil L. Crawford, Robert J. Goldberg, Gyorgy Frendl, and Craig M. Lilly
Publications from 2011
The making of an anesthesia historian: lessons from a worldwide biographical survey, Sukumar P. Desai, Jerry Buterbaugh, and Manisha S. Desai
Extubation of the difficult airway, Khaldoun Faris, Maksim Zayaruzny, and Spiro Spanakis
Ultrasound-guided epidural blood patch, Issam Khayata, J. Lance Lichtor, and Patricia M. Amelin
Hospital Mortality, Length of Stay, and Preventable Complications Among Critically Ill Patients Before and After Tele-ICU Reengineering of Critical Care Processes, Craig M. Lilly, Shawn Cody, Huifang Zhao, Karen Landry, Stephen P. Baker, John McIlwaine, M. Willis Chandler, Richard S. Irwin, Stephen O. Heard, J. Matthias Walz, and Khaldoun Faris
Mortality of Patients With Respiratory Insufficiency and Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome After Surgery: The Obesity Paradox, Stavros G. Memtsoudis, Anna Maria bombardieri, Yan Ma, J. Matthias Walz, Ya-Lin Chiu, and Madhu Mazumdar
Perioperative pulmonary outcomes in patients with sleep apnea after noncardiac surgery, Stavros G. Memtsoudis, Spencer S. Liu, Yan Ma, Ya-Lin Chiu, J. Matthias Walz, Licia K. Gaber-Baylis, and Madhu Mazumdar
Guidelines for the prevention of intravascular catheter-related infections, Naomi P. O'Grady, Mary Alexander, Lillian A. Burns, E. Patchen Dellinger, Jeffery S. Garland, Stephen O. Heard, Pamela A. Lipsett, Henry Masur, Leonard A. Mermel, Michele L. Pearson, Issam I. Raad, Adrienne G. Randolph, Mark E. Rupp, and Sanjay Saint
Guidelines for the prevention of intravascular catheter-related infections, Naomi P. O'Grady, Mary Alexander, Lillian A. Burns, E. Patchen Dellinger, Jeffery S. Garland, Stephen O. Heard, Pamela A. Lipsett, Henry Masur, Leonard A. Mermel, Michele L. Pearson, Issam I. Raad, Adrienne G. Randolph, Mark E. Rupp, and Sanjay Saint
Summary of recommendations: Guidelines for the Prevention of Intravascular Catheter-related Infections, Naomi P. O'Grady, Mary Alexander, Lillian A. Burns, E. Patchen Dellinger, Jeffery S. Garland, Stephen O. Heard, Pamela A. Lipsett, Henry Masur, Leonard A. Mermel, Michele L. Pearson, Issam I. Raad, Adrienne G. Randolph, Mark E. Rupp, and Sanjay Saint
Publications from 2010
Pancreatitis associated with Strongyloides stercoralis infection in a patient chronically treated with corticosteroids, Nathan G. Jones, Andrew Cocchiarella, Khaldoun Faris, and Stephen O. Heard
Comparison of the duration of antimicrobial activity of 2 different antimicrobial central venous catheters, Theofilos Matheos, J. Matthias Walz, Janice P. Adams, Karen Johnson, Karen J. Longtine, Jaclyn K. Longtine, Melissa A. O'Neill, and Stephen O. Heard
Perioperative mortality in patients with pulmonary hypertension undergoing major joint replacement, Stavros G. Memtsoudis, Yan Ma, Ya-Lin Chiu, J. Matthias Walz, Robert Voswinckel, and Madhu Mazumdar
Targeted inhibition of the serotonin 5HT2A receptor improves coronary patency in an in vivo model of recurrent thrombosis, Karin Przyklenk, Andrew L. Frelinger III, Matthew Dean Linden, Peter Whittaker, YouFu Li, Marc R. Barnard, J. Adams, M. Morgan, H. Al-Shamma, and Alan D. Michelson
Anti-infective external coating of central venous catheters: a randomized, noninferiority trial comparing 5-fluorouracil with chlorhexidine/silver sulfadiazine in preventing catheter colonization, J. Matthias Walz, Rui L. Avelar, Karen J. Longtine, Kent L. Carter, Leonard A. Mermel, Stephen O. Heard, 5-FU Catheter Study Group, Khaldoun Faris, Wiley R. Hall, Alan Orquiola, Melissa A. O'Neill, and Jaclyn K. Longtine
Prevention of central venous catheter bloodstream infections, J. Matthias Walz, Stavros G. Memtsoudis, and Stephen O. Heard
Oxygen transport characterization of a human model of progressive hemorrhage, Kevin R. Ward, Mohamad H. Tiba, Kathy L. Ryan, Ivo P. Torres Filho, Caroline A. Rickards, Tarryn Witten, Babs R. Soller, David A. Ludwig, and Victor A. Convertino
The use of lactate as a biomarker, Nicholas Watson and Stephen O. Heard
Esophago-Pericardial Fistula Following Ablation of the Atrial Fibrillation Focus, Maksim Zayaruzny and Rana Badr
Publications from 2009
The First Use of Ether Anaesthesia in India -- A Plea for More Information, Sukumar P. Desai and Manisha S. Desai
Near infrared spectroscopy, Babs R. Soller, Ye Yang, Olusola O. Soyemi, Stephen O. Heard, Kathy L. Ryan, Caroline A. Rickards, Victor A. Convertino, William H. Cooke, and Bruce A. Crookes
Publications from 2008
Case Report on Morbidly Obese Patient with Cervical Spine Ankylosing Spondylitis Presenting with Acute Spinal Shock and Complex Airway Management, Ulrike Berth, Shaheen Shaikh, Bronwyn Cooper, and Stephen O. Heard
Differences in safety climate among hospital anesthesia departments and the effect of a realistic simulation-based training program, Jeffrey B. Cooper, Richard H. Blum, John S. Carroll, Mark Dershwitz, David M. Feinstein, David M. Gaba, John C. Morey, and Aneesh K. Singla