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The air-Q intubating laryngeal airway is effective in tracheal intubation.

Errors reduced in the ICU.

Faculty

  • Steven Hall, MD, Arthur C. King Professor of Anesthesiology
  • Sandra Barcelona, MD
  • Dawn Belvis, MD
  • Patrick Birmingham, MD
  • Richard Dsida, MD
  • Courtney Hardy, MD
  • Babette Horn, MD
  • Narasimhan Jagannathan, MD
  • Kenneth Langen, MD
  • Eryn Levis, MD
  • Isabella Mukherji, MD
  • H.J. Przybylo, MD
  • Andrew Roth, MD
  • Amod Sawardekar, MD
  • Aisha Siddiqui, DO
  • Carmen Simion, MD
  • Lisa Sohn, MD
  • Gina Stevenson, MD
  • Santhanam Suresh, MD
  • Tetsu Uejima, MD
  • Polina Voronov, MD

Research Honors

  • Santhanam Suresh was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the International Anesthesia Research Society, the largest and most well-known research organization in anesthesia. He is the only pediatric anesthesiologist to serve among eight trustees, making it a pivotal appointment for Children’s Memorial as an institution.
  • Suresh was appointed to the boards of directors of the American Board of Anesthesiology and the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia.
  • Tetsu (Butch) Uejima was appointed to the Affiliate Advisory Council, representing the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation, for a new organization called SmartTots, a private-public partnership that includes the FDA to study the long-term effects of anesthesia on young children.

Anesthesiology

The department is a national leader of research into drugs, equipment and techniques to increase the safety of administering anesthesia to children.

Medical staff members serve on national and international committees, and contribute to and edit anesthesiology textbooks.

Our investigators add valuable knowledge and information to the field of anesthesia and pain medicine in children. Research includes finding adequate methods for treating pediatric patients and tailoring procedures to fit the particular needs of children. In addition, the department contributes invaluable knowledge and expertise to research being conducted in other disciplines at Children’s Memorial.

Impact:

Errors reduced in the ICU. A multidisciplinary team from the Division of Pediatric Critical Care and Anesthesiology developed a handover process and protocol for patients transitioning to the cardiac intensive care unit after congenital cardiac surgery. As a result, technical errors and critical verbal handoff information omissions per handover were reduced.

The air-Q intubating laryngeal airway is effective in tracheal intubation. Narasimhan Jagannathan and colleagues found that the ILA was effective in a series of pediatric patients with difficult airways.

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