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Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

1. Thromboprophylaxis and Peripheral Nerve Blocks in Patients Undergoing Joint Arthroplasty
   The Journal of Arthroplasty, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 350–354, 2008
2. International normalized ratio and prothrombin time values before the removal of a lumbar plexus catheter in patients receiving warfarin after total hip replacement
   British Journal of Anaesthesia, vol. 101, no. 2, pp. 250–254, 2008
3. DISTRIBUTION OF NOS ISOFORMS IN A PORCINE ENDOTOXIN SHOCK MODEL
   Shock, vol. 29, no. 6, pp. 692–702, 2008
4. The efficacy of rofecoxib 50 mg and hydrocodone/acetaminophen 7.5/750 mg in patients with post-arthroscopic pain
   Current Medical Research and Opinion, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 195–206, 2007
5. Preventing postoperative nausea and vomiting: <I>post hoc</I> analysis of pooled data from two randomized active-controlled trials of aprepitant
   Current Medical Research and Opinion, vol. 23, no. 10, pp. 2559–2565, 2007
6. Do Continuous Femoral Nerve Blocks Affect the Hospital Length of Stay and Functional Outcome?
   Anesthesia & Analgesia, vol. 104, no. 4, pp. 996–997, 2007
7. Multimodal analgesia for radical prostatectomy provides better analgesia and shortens hospital stay
   Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 264–268, 2007
8. Single-dose aprepitant vs ondansetron for the prevention of postoperative nausea and vomiting: a randomized, double-blind Phase III trial in patients undergoing open abdominal surgery
   British Journal of Anaesthesia, vol. 99, no. 2, pp. 202–211, 2007
9. Perineural Infusion of Local Anesthetics: ???More to the Review???
   Anesthesiology, vol. 106, no. 1, p. 191, 2007
10. Peripheral Nerve Block Catheters and Low Molecular Weight Heparin
    Anesthesia & Analgesia, vol. 104, no. 4, pp. 990–991, 2007
11. Post–dural headache associated with thoracic paravertebral blocks
    Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, vol. 18, no. 5, pp. 376–378, 2006
12. Was the Postoperative Nerve Injury Really Related to the Performance of the Block?
    Anesthesia & Analgesia, vol. 102, no. 2, pp. 650–651, 2006
13. Stimulating or conventional perineural catheters after hallux valgus repair: a double-blind, pharmaco-economic evaluation
    Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica, vol. 50, no. 10, pp. 1284–1289, 2006
14. An iontophoretic, fentanyl HCl patient-controlled transdermal system for acute postoperative pain management
    Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy, vol. 6, no. 7, pp. 1205–1214, 2005
15. Block of the Posterior Femoral Cutaneous Nerve
    Anesthesia & Analgesia, vol. 100, no. 2, p. 597, 2005
16. Adding Clonidine to the Induction Bolus and Postoperative Infusion During Continuous Femoral Nerve Block Delays Recovery of Motor Function After Total Knee Arthroplasty
    Anesthesia & Analgesia, vol. 100, no. 3, pp. 866–872, 2005
17. Peripheral Nerve Blocks for Postoperative Pain Relief After Total Knee Replacement: More Questions Than Answers
    Anesthesia & Analgesia, vol. 100, no. 5, p. 1547, 2005
18. Minimally Invasive Total Hip Replacement as an Ambulatory Procedure
    International Anesthesiology Clinics, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 161–165, 2005
19. Economics of Nerve Block Pain Management after Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
    Anesthesiology, vol. 100, no. 3, pp. 697–706, 2004
20. Anesthesia and acute pain management for minimally invasive hip surgery1
    Techniques in Regional Anesthesia and Pain Management, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 70–75, 2004
21. The Quest for New Devices to Improve Postoperative Pain Control
    Anesthesia & Analgesia, p. 623, 2004
22. Postoperative Analgesia Following Total Knee Arthroplasty
    Anesthesia & Analgesia, vol. 99, no. 3, p. 954, 2004
23. Analgesia After Total Knee Arthroplasty: Is Continuous Sciatic Blockade Needed in Addition to Continuous Femoral Blockade?
    Anesthesia & Analgesia, pp. 747–749, 2004
24. The Safety and Efficacy of a Fentanyl Patient-Controlled Transdermal System for Acute Postoperative Analgesia: A Multicenter, Placebo-Controlled Trial
    Anesthesia & Analgesia, pp. 427–433, 2004
25. Continuous perineural infusions at home: narrowing the focus
    Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 1–3, 2004
26. Patient-controlled ropivacaine analgesia after arthroscopic subacromial decompression
    Arthroscopy: The Journal of Arthroscopic & Related Surgery, vol. 20, no. 5, pp. 451–455, 2004
27. Guidelines and alternatives for neuraxial anesthesia and venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in major orthopedic surgery
    The Journal of Arthroplasty, vol. 19, no. 8, pp. 1004–1016, 2004
28. Instruction of airway management skills during anesthesiology residency training
    Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 149–153, 2003
29. Lidocaine versus ropivacaine for continuous interscalene brachial plexus block after open shoulder surgery
    Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 355–360, 2003
30. Are nonstimulating catheters really inappropriate for continuous nerve block techniques?
    Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, vol. 28, no. 5, p. 483, 2003
31. Current Channeling: A Theory of Nerve Stimulator Failure
    Anesthesia & Analgesia, pp. 1531–1532, 2003
32. Continuous Peripheral Neural Blockade for Postoperative Analgesia: Practical Advantages
    Anesthesia & Analgesia, p. 1537, 2003
33. Interscalene Brachial Plexus Anesthesia and Analgesia for Open Shoulder Surgery: What About Pharmacokinetics?
    Anesthesia & Analgesia, pp. 605–606, 2003
34. Paresthesia but No Motor Response: What??s Going On?
    Anesthesiology, vol. 98, no. 2, p. 586, 2003
35. Femoral-Sciatic Nerve Blocks for Complex Outpatient Knee Surgery Are Associated with Less Postoperative Pain Before Same-day Discharge
    Anesthesiology, vol. 98, no. 5, pp. 1206–1213, 2003
36. What Has Happened to Evidence-based Medicine?
    Anesthesiology, vol. 99, no. 4, pp. 1028–1029, 2003
37. Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma, vol. 17, no. 5, pp. 362–367, 2003
38. Sciatic nerve block
    Techniques in Regional Anesthesia and Pain Management, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 18–25, 2003
39. Interscalene Brachial Plexus Anesthesia and Analgesia for Open Shoulder Surgery: A Randomized, Double-Blinded Comparison Between Levobupivacaine and Ropivacaine
    Anesthesia & Analgesia, vol. 96, no. 1, pp. 253–259, 2003
40. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
    Anesthesia & Analgesia, p. 296, 2003
41. Hemodynamic Stability after Pediatric Epidurals
    Anesthesiology, vol. 97, no. 3, p. 761, 2002
42. Role of propofol and its solvent, intralipid, in nitric oxide-induced peripheral vasodilatation in dogs
    British Journal of Anaesthesia, vol. 89, no. 3, pp. 492–498, 2002
43. Distal Nerve Blocks at the Wrist for Outpatient Carpal Tunnel Surgery Offer Intraoperative Cardiovascular Stability and Reduce Discharge Time
    Anesthesia & Analgesia, vol. 95, no. 2, pp. 351–355, 2002
44. Is the Administration of Ketorolac Associated with Preemptive Analgesia?
    Anesthesiology, vol. 96, no. 2, p. 514, 2002
45. Neurological Complications after Interscalene Brachial Plexus Blockade: What to Make of it?
    Anesthesiology, vol. 97, no. 1, pp. 279–280, 2002
46. Outpatient lower extremity infusions
    Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 311–320, 2002
47. Training of residents in peripheral nerve blocks during anesthesiology residency
    Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, vol. 14, no. 8, pp. 584–588, 2002
48. Clinical properties of levobupivacaine or racemic bupivacaine for sciatic nerve block
    Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 111–114, 2002
49. How to Prevent Catastrophic Complications When Performing Interscalene Blocks
    Anesthesiology, vol. 95, no. 5, p. 1302, 2001
50. Measurement of cardiac function in conscious rats
    Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 195–202, 2001
51. Role of Heparin and Nitric Oxide in the Cardiac and Regional Hemodynamic Properties of Protamine in Conscious Chronically Instrumented Dogs
    Anesthesiology, vol. 94, no. 6, pp. 1016–1025, 2001
52. Continuous Posterior Lumbar Plexus Block for Acute Postoperative Pain Control in Young Children
    Anesthesiology, vol. 95, no. 6, pp. 1521–1523, 2001
53. How Can We Possibly Prevent Complications Related to Peripheral Nerve Blocks?
    Anesthesia & Analgesia, vol. 93, no. 4, pp. 1080–1081, 2001
54. Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 349–358, 2001
55. Dolasetron for the prevention of postoperative nausea and vomiting following outpatient surgery with general anaesthesia: a randomized, placebo-controlled study
    European Journal of Anaesthesiology, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 23–32, 2000
56. Pooled analysis of three large clinical trials to determine the optimal dose of Dolasetron Mesylate needed to prevent postoperative nausea and vomiting
    Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 1–8, 2000
57. The Onset Time of Rocuronium Is Slowed by Esmolol and Accelerated by Ephedrine
    Anesthesia & Analgesia, vol. 90, no. 5, pp. 1217–1219, 2000
58. The Successful Use of Regional Anesthesia to Prevent Involuntary Movements in a Patient Undergoing Awake Craniotomy
    Anesthesia & Analgesia, vol. 91, no. 5, pp. 1230–1231, 2000
59. Ambulatory Continuous Perineural Infusion: Are We Ready?
    Anesthesiology, vol. 93, no. 2, p. 581, 2000
60. Effects of -methyl--arginine on cardiac and regional blood flow in a dog endotoxin shock model
    Journal of Critical Care, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 22–29, 2000
61. A New Anterior Approach to the Sciatic Nerve Block
    Anesthesiology, vol. 91, no. 6, p. 1655, 1999
62. Single anterior sciatic and continuous femoral nerve blocks for total knee replacement
    Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, vol. 24, no. 3, p. 45, 1999
63. Distal troncular blocks are safe and effective for carpal tunnel release
    Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, vol. 24, no. 3, p. 44, 1999
64. Nociceptive properties of aminoguanidine in the rat formalin test
    Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, vol. 24, no. 3, p. 29, 1999
65. Sciatic nerve blocks
    Techniques in Regional Anesthesia and Pain Management, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 39–46, 1999
66. Double-Blind, Multicenter Trial to Compare the Efficacy of Intramuscular Dihydroergotamine Plus Hydroxyzine Versus Intramuscular Meperidine Plus Hydroxyzine for the Emergency Department Treatment of Acute Migraine Headache☆, ☆☆, ★, ★★
    Annals of Emergency Medicine, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 129–138, 1998
67. Treatment of Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting with Single Intravenous Doses of Dolasetron Mesylate
    Anesthesia & Analgesia, vol. 85, no. 3, pp. 546–552, 1997
68. Cardiac and Regional Hemodynamic Interactions between Halothane and Nitric Oxide Synthase Activity in Dogs
    Anesthesiology, vol. 85, no. 1, pp. 142–149, 1996
69. Postoperative use of flumazenil: Multicenter assessment of benefit to inpatients after general anesthesia
    Current Therapeutic Research, vol. 53, no. 4, pp. 413–426, 1993
70. An ultrasonic method for measuring tissue displacement: technical details and validation for measuring myocardial thickening
    IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 38, no. 8, pp. 735–747, 1991
71. Effects of prostaglandins and the autonomic nervous system on nitroglycerin in conscious dogs
    European Journal of Pharmacology, vol. 183, no. 4, p. 1271, 1990
72. Measurement of cardiac function in conscious rats
    European Journal of Pharmacology, vol. 183, no. 6, pp. 2231–2232, 1990
73. Renal, cardiac, and systemic hemodynamic effects of the dopamine receptor agonist SK&F 85174 in anesthetized dogs
    Drug Development Research, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 71–77, 1989
74. Volatile Anesthetics and Drug Serum Protein Binding
    Anesthesiology, vol. 66, no. 5, p. 709, 1987
75. Continuous monitoring of mixed venous oxygen saturation during aortic surgery
    Chest, vol. 92, no. 5, pp. 796–799, 1987
76. Cardiovascular Effects of and Interaction Between Calcium Blocking Drugs and Anesthetics in Chronically Instrumented Dogs. III. Nicardipine and Isoflurane
    Anesthesiology, vol. 65, no. 4, pp. 385–391, 1986
77. Effects of norepinephrine on the dog common carotid, coronary and renal arteries: In vitro studies
    European Journal of Pharmacology, vol. 120, no. 1, pp. 137–139, 1986
78. Possible role of central α1-adrenoceptors in the control of the autonomic nervous system in normotensive and spontaneously hypertensive rats
    European Journal of Pharmacology, vol. 85, no. 2, pp. 239–242, 1982
79. Role of α1-and α2-adrenoceptors in the modulation of the baroreflex vagal bradycardia
    European Journal of Pharmacology, vol. 71, no. 4, pp. 455–461, 1981
80. PROSTACYCLIN AS VASODILATOR IN ANAESTHESIA AND INTENSIVE CARE
    The Lancet, vol. 318, no. 8239, p. 198, 1981
81. Effects of L-glutamic acid and kainic acid on central cardiovascular control
    European Journal of Pharmacology, vol. 60, no. 1, pp. 91–94, 1979