Pediatric Anesthesia Research Team
Department of Anesthesia, BC Children's Hospital
The vision of the Department of Pediatric Anesthesia is to provide excellence and innovation in patient-centered care for the children and their families of British Columbia. Evaluation, improvement and innovation are key research activities that allow us to optimize the clinical care we provide.
BC Children's Hospital provides tertiary level care to all the children in British Columbia. The Department of Anesthesia at BC Children's Hospital is one of 11 similar university affiliated pediatric anesthesia specialist programs in Canada. The anesthesiologists at BC Children's Hospital have special training and experience in the perioperative management of infants, children and youth. These Pediatric Anesthesiologists are specialist physicians who, in addition to completion of an MD degree and at least 5 years of anesthesia training, have completed further subspecialty training in Pediatric Anesthesia.
In addition to providing expert anesthetic care, the Department of Pediatric Anesthesia is an active participant in both medical education and research. Department members participate locally, nationally and internationally in education and research to improve and to advance the practice of pediatric anesthesia and pain management. Our pediatric anesthesia fellowship-training program and research program are examples of these activities.
Congratulations to Dr. Gillian Lauder and Dr. Carolyne Montgomery for their success in the Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society (CAS) 2010 Research Awards Program.
Dr. Lauder's project (Naloxone for the Treatment of Opioid-Induced Pruritus in Children: A Double-Blind, Prospective, Randomized, Controlled Study) received the Baxter Corporation Canadian Research Award in Anesthesia in the New Investigator Awards category. Dr. Montgomery's project (Pharmacokinetics of oral morphine and pharmacogenetics of CYP2D6 and UGT2B7, in an urban pediatric population (2-6 years of age) presenting for elective surgery) received the Canadian Research Award in Pain Research and/or Regional Anesthesia.
Congratulations to Dr. John Chandler in his success at the UBC Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics 4th Annual Research Dayfor winning 1st place in the Fellows division in the oral presentation competition ("Arterial and plethysmograph waveform relationship in chldren: two sides of the same coin?"), and 1st place in Anesthesiology in the poster competition ("Visual cues for the interaction of two physiological parameters improve change detection performanace").
Congratulations also to Dr. Amelia Pickard for presenting "A novel method of measuring capillary refill time using photoplethysmography" and Jeremy Daniels presenting "The effectiveness of standard pediatric daycare surgery discharge communication: a quality improvement gap analysis".