Department of Anesthesiology

October 2, 2017

Delirium, benzos and the pediatric ICU

With other risk factors held equal, children who received a benzodiazepine sedative drug were nearly three times more likely to experience delirium – confused thought – the following day.

By Paul Govern
September 28, 2017

ECMO program takes life-saving therapy on the road

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is home to the state’s largest adult Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Program. And most recently, it became the only adult program in Tennessee with a mobile team that can initiate ECMO on patients transported to the Medical Center by its ambulances.

By Jessica Pasley
September 28, 2017

Kilkelly named chief of Division of Pediatric Anesthesiology

Jill Kilkelly, M.D., has been named chief of the Division of Pediatric Anesthesiology after serving as interim chief since November 2016.

By VUMC News and Communications
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September 19, 2017

Medication safety in the ICU

Facilitated reporting of medication-related events in the intensive care unit can provide opportunities for optimizing quality of care and patient safety.

By Bill Snyder
August 4, 2017

An immune regulator of addiction

Although drug addiction is classically studied in a neuron-centric way, Vanderbilt researchers have discovered that the immune system also plays a critical role.

By Sanjay Mishra
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July 13, 2017

Study seeks to improve emergency event management

Anesthesiology has a long history of scrutinizing its practice and developing strategies for improvement.

By Jessica Pasley
June 21, 2017

Device helps ICU patients by filtering out noise from medical alarms

A team of investigators at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) wants to improve patient outcomes in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) settings by silencing audible medical alarms in hospital rooms.
By Jessica Pasley
April 27, 2017

Faculty members join March for Science

Among the thousands of scientists and their supporters who participated in Saturday’s March for Science in Nashville and in Washington, D.C., were several faculty members from Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt University.
By Bill Snyder
April 19, 2017

Predicting the infection response

Vanderbilt investigators are probing the response to a bacterial toxin as a clinical assessment of immune function.
By Sanjay Mishra
April 13, 2017

Anesthesiology creates perioperative medicine fellowship

The department of Anesthesiology has created a new training program, the Fellowship in Perioperative Medicine, set to launch in July. The multidisciplinary 12-month program has slots for up to four fellows, and is open to physicians who’ve completed residency in either Anesthesiology or General Surgery.
By VUMC News and Communications
February 23, 2017

Protocol helps manage blood glucose during surgery

A study conducted by researchers in the Department of Anesthesiology found a clinical information systems protocol, developed by the department’s Vanderbilt Perioperative Information Management Systems (VPIMS) developer group, improved management of blood glucose during the intraoperative period, resulting in reduced instances of hyperglycemia as well as a reduction in surgical site infections in diabetic patients and those with impaired glucose control following surgical procedures.
By Amy Nabours
February 21, 2017

Laughing gas for labor

Although nitrous oxide was less effective than epidural anesthesia for pain management during labor, mothers who used nitrous oxide were equally satisfied with their childbirth experience.
By Sanjay Mishra
February 8, 2017

Pathology of septic shock

The signaling molecule IL-15 promotes septic shock, a life-threatening condition involving organ injury caused by infection.
By Leigh MacMillan