Department of Anesthesiology Archive — Page 1 of 15
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January 13, 2026
Critical Care Outreach Team’s rapid response interventions improve patient safety, prevent ICU transfers
Since January 2020, members of the VUH CCOT have responded to more than 10,000 rapid response calls in every non-ICU unit in the adult hospital. -
December 2, 2025
Ketamine fails surgical recovery trial
In a large, placebo-controlled, randomized trial, the pain reliever ketamine posed side effects while failing to aid patient recovery after major surgery. -
September 16, 2025
Forgotten opioid has resurfaced as lethal street drug
Originally developed in the 1950s but never approved for clinical use, these substances are over 20 times more potent than fentanyl and hundreds to thousands of times more potent than morphine. -
August 26, 2025
Grant supports development of head-mounted augmented reality system to guide tumor resection
The technology will allow surgeons to rely less on a fallible mental construction of the resection plane, thereby reducing the risk of human error affecting the procedure. -
April 7, 2025
Amanda Toye named division chief of Pain Medicine in the Department of Anesthesiology
Toye plans to expand community outreach programs to educate patients and health care providers about pain management options. -
March 27, 2025
Nicole Werner named director of the Center for Research and Innovation in Systems Safety
CRISS uses a wide range of human factors and systems engineering, cognitive psychology, biomedical informatics and implementation science techniques to study performance during patient care. -
March 27, 2025
Six Vanderbilt faculty elected fellows of international scientific society
One of the world’s largest multidisciplinary scientific societies, the AAAS also publishes the Science family of journals.