Recent publications

Valtola A, Laakso M, Hakomäki H, Anderson BJ, Kokki H, Rinne V, Kokki M. Intranasal fentanyl for intervention associated breakthrough pain after cardiac surgery, Clin Pharmacokinet 2021; EPub 9 March

John Lippmann, Chris Lawrence, Michael Davis. Snorkelling and breath-hold diving fatalities in New Zealand, 2007 to 2016. Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine. 2021 March 1, 51 (1) 25-33

J. Bierens a, C. Abelairas-Gomez b, R. Barcala Furelos c, S. Beerman d, A. Claesson e, C. Dunne f, H.E. Elsenga g, P. Morgan h, T. Mecrow i, J.C. Pereira j, A. Scapigliati k, J. Seesink l, A. Schmidt m, J. Sempsrott n, D. Szpilman o, D.S. Warner p, J. Webber q, S. Johnson r, T. Olasveengen s, P.T. Morley t, G.D. Perkins u,* Resuscitation and emergency care in drowning: A scoping review. Resuscitation 162 (2021) 205-217

Panda N, Etheridge JC, Singh T, Sonnay Y, Molina G, Burian BK, Capo-Chichi N, Cauley CE, de Beer DAH, Derbew M, Dias RD, Fearon MC, Feyssa MD, Hagen K, Kumar M, Mammo TN, Mariano ER, Merry A, Mushayandebvu B, Nabukenya MT, Shah M, Spruce L, Weiser TG, Brindle ME. We Asked the Experts: The WHO Surgical Safety Checklist and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Recommendations for Content and Implementation Adaptations. World J Surg. 2021

Gong J, Merry AF, Beyene KA, Campbell D, Frampton C, Jones P, McCall J, Moore M, Chan AHY. Persistent opioid use and opioid-related harm after hospital admissions for surgery and trauma in New Zealand: a population-based cohort study. BMJ Open. 2021;11(1):e044493.

Foley LJ, Urdaneta F, Berkow L, et al. Difficult Airway Management in Adult COVID-19 Patients: Statement by the Society of Airway Management. Anesthesia & Analgesia. 2021;12:12. [Original paper]

Baker PA, Jagannathan N. The Airway Gazette, (The Official Publication of the Society for Airway Management). Awake intubation for children. Volume 25, #4, p 12-18, 2021

Nicola M. Ludin, Alma Orts-Sebastian, James F. Cheeseman, Janelle Chong, Alan F. Merry, David Cumin, Shin Yamazaki, Matthew D.M. Pawley and Guy R. Warman.  General Anaesthesia Shifts the Murine Circadian Clock in a Time-Dependant Fashion. Clocks & Sleep 2021 pg 87-97

Jonathon Webber, Kevin Moran, Claire French, Felicity Fozard, Olivia Pearless.  Fatal coastal drowning incidents: A 10-year review of body recovery times in New Zealand.  Forensic Science International 317 (2020)  

Cumin D, Baker PA, Anderson BJ: Incidence of post-induction hypoxemia in children and the effect of induction gas composition. Pediatric Anesthesia 2021. 

Ludin NM, Orts-Sebastian A, Cheeseman JF, Chong J, Merry AF, Cumin D, Yamazaki S, Pawley MDM, Warman GR: General Anaesthesia Shifts the Murine Circadian Clock in a Time-Dependant Fashion. Clocks and Sleep 2021. 

Wei H, Jiang B, Behringer EC, et al Baker PA. Controversies in airway management of COVID-19 patients: updated information and international expert consensus recommendations. British Journal of Anaesthesia. 2021;126(2):361-366. [Original paper]

Mann CM, Baker PA, Sainsbury DM, Taylor R. A comparison of cannula insufflation device performance for emergency front of neck airway. Paediatric anaesthesia. 2021;11:11. [Original paper]

Jiayi Gong, Alan Forbes Merry, Kebede A Beyene, Doug Campbell, Chris Frampton, Peter Jones, John McCall, Matthew Moore, Amy Hai Yan Chan. Persistent opioid use and opioid-related harm after hospital admissions for surgery and trauma in New Zealand: a population-based cohort study. BMJ Open 2021

Christopher Eccleston, Emma Fisher, Richard F Howard, Rebeccah Slater, Paula Forgeron, Tonya M Palermo, Kathryn A Birnie, Brian J Anderson, Christine T Chambers, Geert Crombez, Gustaf Ljungman, Isabel Jordan, Zachary Jordan, Caitriona Roberts, Neil Schechter, Christine B Sieberg, Dick Tibboel, Suellen M Walker, Dominic Wilkinson, Chantal Wood. Delivering transformative action in paediatric pain: a Lancet Child & Adolescent Health Commission.  The Lancet 2021: 5

Philip Wolstencroft, Philip Arnold, Brian J. Anderson. Dose estimation for bivalirudin during pediatric cardiopulmonary bypass. Pediatric Anesthesia. 2021

James D Morse, L Ignacio Cortinea, Brian J Anderson.  A Universal Pharmacokinetic Model for Dexmedetomidine in Children and Adults.  Journal of Clinical Medicine 2020, 9 3480

Hight DF, Kaiser HA, Sleigh JW, Avidan MS.   Correction to: An updated introduction to electroencephalogram-based brain monitoring during intended general anesthesia. Canadian journal of anaesthesia 2021

Garcia PS, Kreuzer M, Hight D, Sleight JW.  Effects of noxious stimulation on the electroencephalogram during general anaesthesia: a narrative review and approach to analgesic titration. British journal of anaesthesia 126(2) 445-457 2021

Noroozababaee L, Steyn-Ross DA, Steyn-Ross ML, Sleigh JW. Analysis of the Hindriks and van Putten model for propofol anesthesia: Limitations and extensions. NeroImage 227: Feb 2021

Brendan Coleman, F Michael Davis. Dysbaric osteonecrosis in technical divers: the new ‘at-risk’ group? Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine. 2020 Sept 3, 50 (3) 295-299

Xavier CE Vrijdag, Hanna van Waart, Jamie W Sleigh, Simon J Mitchell. Pupillometry is not sensitive to gas narcosis in divers breathing hyperbaric air or normobaric nitrous oxide. Diving Hyperbaric Medicine Journal; published on-line 30 June 2020

Greta Pearce, Navdeep Sidhu, Alana Cavadino, Archana Shrivathsa, Richard Seglenieks. Gender effects in anaesthesia training in Australia and New Zealand. BJA 2020; published on-line 23 January 2020

SAGE Publishing and Perfusion. “Cardiopulmonary bypass management and acute kidney injury in 118 Jehovah’s Witness patients: a retrospective propensity-matched multicentre cohort from 30,942 patients” Tim Willcox

Spectral and Entropic Features are Altered by Age in the Electroencephalogram in Patients under Sevoflurane Anesthesia. Kreuzer M, Stern MA, Hight D, Berger S, Schneider G, Sleigh JW, García PS. Anesthesiology. 2020 Feb 25. doi: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000003182 open access

Constructing a Consciousness Meter Based on the Combination of Non-Linear Measurements and Genetic Algorithm-Based Support Vector Machine. Liang Z, Shao S, Lv Z, Li D, Sleigh JW, Li X, Zhang C, He J. IEEE Trans Neural Syst Rehabil Eng. 2020 Feb;28(2):399-408. doi: 10.1109/TNSRE.2020.2964819. Epub 2020 Jan 8.

Practical Training of Anesthesia Clinicians in Electroencephalogram-Based Determination of Hypnotic Depth of General Anesthesia. Bombardieri AM, Wildes TS, Stevens T, Wolfson M, Steinhorn R, Ben Abdallah A, Sleigh J, Avidan MS. Anesth Analg. 2020 Mar;130(3):777-786

Modulation of simultaneously collected hemodynamic and electrophysiological functional connectivity by ketamine and midazolam. Forsyth A, McMillan R, Campbell D, Malpas G, Maxwell E, Sleigh J, Dukart J, Hipp J, Muthukumaraswamy SD. Hum Brain Mapp. 2020 Apr 15;41(6):1472-1494.

Information Integration and Mesoscopic Cortical Connectivity during Propofol Anesthesia. Liang Z, Cheng L, Shao S, Jin X, Yu T, Sleigh JW, Li X. Anesthesiology. 2020 Mar;132(3):504-524. doi: 1

Anderson BJ, Hannam JA. A target concentration strategy to ibuprofen dosing in children. Pediatr Anesth 2019;29(11):1107–1113

Anderson BJ, Sinclair J. Food, fads, allergies and anaphylaxis with propofol. Anaesthesia 2019; 74 (10):1223-6

Larsson P, Anderson BJ, Goobie SM. Dosing clonidine for sedation in intensive care. Pediatr Anesth 2019;29 (10):983–984

Goodchild CS, Serrao JM, Sear JW, Anderson BJ. Preliminary analysis of the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of alphaxalone administered as a bolus intravenous injection of Phaxan in a phase 1 randomized trial. Anesth Analg 2020 ;130(3):704-714.

Anderson BJ. Neonatal pharmacology. Anaesth Intens Care Med 2020;2:80-86.

Anderson BJ, Morse J, Hannam JA, Cortinez LI. Pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic considerations of general anesthesia in pediatric subjects. Exp Opin Drug Metab Tox 2020: EPub 17 March

Incident Reporting in Perfusion: Current Perceptions on PIRS-2. Timothy W. Willcox, CCP; Robert A. Baker, PhD, CCP. J Extra Corpor Technol. 2020;52:7–12

An Introduction to Causal Diagrams for Anesthesiology Research. Gaskell AL, Sleigh JW. Anesthesiology. 2020 May;132(5):951-967. doi: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000003193. PMID: 32287160

Anderson BJ, Morse J, Hannam JA, Cortinez LI. Pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic considerations of general anesthesia in pediatric subjects. Exp Opin Drug Metab Tox 2020: 2020;16(4):279-295

Nielsen BN, Anderson BJ, Falcon, L, Lornstein E, Ydemann M, Henneberg SW, Afshari A. Pharmacokinetics of an intravenous bolus dose of clonidine in children undergoing surgery. Pediatr Anesth 2020;30:607–613

Levi E, Alvo A, Mahadevan M, Anderson BJ. Postoperative admission to paediatric intensive care after tonsillectomy. SAGE Open Medicine 2020;8:1-5

Cortinez I, Anderson BJ. Covariate analysis in clinical anaesthesia. In Personalized Anaesthesia: Targeting Physiologic Systems for Optimal Effect. Eds, Gambus P, Hendrickx J. Cambridge University Press, UK; 2020: pp 40-62

An international survey of airway management education in 61 countries. Armstrong L; Harding F; Critchley J; McNarry AF; Myatra SN; Cooper R; Baker PA; World Airway Management Meeting 2015 Education Group. British Journal of Anaesthesia. 2020 May 19

Risks to healthcare workers following tracheal intubation of patients with COVID-19: a prospective international multicentre cohort study. El-Boghdadly K; Wong DJN; Owen R; Neuman MD; Pocock S; Carlisle JB; Johnstone C; Andruszkiewicz P; Baker PA; Biccard BM; Bryson GL; Chan MTV; Cheng MH; Chin KJ; Coburn M; Fagerlund MJ; Myatra SN; Myles PS; O'Sullivan E; Pasin L; Shamim F; van Klei WA; Ahmad I. Anaesthesia. 2020 Jun 09

Pediatric emergency front-of-neck airway: an update from the Airway App. Graham K, Duggan LV, Baker PA. Trends in Anaesthesia and Critical Care 2020;30:e188. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tacc.2019.12.461

Maximising comfort: How do patients describe the care that matters? A two-stage qualitative descriptive study to develop a quality improvement framework for comfort-related care in inpatient settings. Wensley C, Botti M, McKillop A, Merry AF. BMJ Open. 2020;10(5)

Evaluation of the effect of multidisciplinary simulation-based team training on patients, staff and organisations: Protocol for a stepped-wedge cluster-mixed methods study of a national, insurer-funded initiative for surgical teams in New Zealand public hospitals. Weller J, Long JA, Beaver P, Cumin D, Frampton C, Garden AL, Moore M, Webster CS, Merry A. BMJ Open. 2020;10(2)

Mental Health Inquiries in the Case of Homicide. Ng L, Merry S, Paterson R, Merry AF. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law. 2020.

Challenges in anaesthesia and pain management for burn injuries. Stapelberg Francois Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, 2020

Vrijdag, X. C., van Waart, H., Sleigh, J. W., & Mitchell, S. J. (2020). Pupillometry is not sensitive to gas narcosis in divers breathing hyperbaric air or normobaric nitrous oxide. Diving and hyperbaric medicine, 50 (2), 115-120. 10.28920/dhm50.2.115-120

van Waart, H., Harris, R. J., Gant, N., Vrijdag, X. C., Challen, C. J., Lawthaweesawat, C., & Mitchell, S. J. (2020). Deep anaesthesia: The Thailand cave rescue and its implications for management of the unconscious diver underwater. Diving and hyperbaric medicine, 50 (2), 121-129. 10.28920/dhm50.2.121-129

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32604891/ Structure-Activity Relationships for the Anaesthetic and Analgaesic Properties of Aromatic Ring-Substituted Ketamine Esters. Dimitrov IV, Harvey MG, Voss LJ, Sleigh JW, Bickerdike MJ, Denny WA. Molecules. 2020 Jun 26;25(12):2950. doi: 10.3390/molecules25122950. PMID: 32604891

A Metabolic Mechanism for Anaesthetic Suppression of Cortical Synaptic Function in Mouse Brain Slices-A Pilot Investigation. Voss LJ, Sleigh JW. Int J Mol Sci. 2020 Jul 1;21(13):E4703. doi: 10.3390/ijms21134703. PMID: 32630300

Frontal electroencephalogram reveals emergence-like brain activity occurring during transition periods in cardiac surgery. Kaiser HA, Peus M, Luedi MM, Lersch F, Krejci V, Reineke D, Sleigh J, Hight D. Br J Anaesth. 2020 Jul 15:S0007-0912(20)30488-8. doi: 10.1016/j.bja.2020.05.064. Online ahead of print. PMID: 32682555

Postoperative Delirium: A Minefield of Markers and Mediators. Sleigh JW, Gaskell A. Anesthesiology. 2020 Aug;133(2):255-257. doi: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000003383. PMID: 32568846

Webster CS, Henderson R, Merry AF. Sustainable quality and safety improvement in healthcare: further lessons from the aviation industry. Br J Anaesth. 2020;15:15.

Nanji KC, Merry AF, Shaikh SD, Pagel C, Deng H, Wahr JA, Gelb AW, Orser BA. Global PRoMiSe (Perioperative Recommendations for Medication Safety): protocol for a mixed-methods study. BMJ Open. 2020;10(6):e038313.

Baker PA, von Ungern-Sternberg BS, Engelhardt T. Desperate times breed desperate measures: About valiance or foolhardiness. Pediatric Anesthesia. 2020;30(6):634-635.

Lemay F, Baker P, McRobbie H. Electronic cigarettes: A narrative review of the implications for the pediatric anesthesiologist. Pediatric Anesthesia. 2020;30(6):653-659.

Baker PA, Peyton J, von Ungern-Sternberg BS. What’s inside the box? Or shall we think outside the box? Pediatric Anesthesia. 2020;30(7):734-736. [Editorial]

Sleigh JW, Gaskell A. Postoperative Delirium: A Minefield of Markers and Mediators. Anesthesiology. 2020 Aug;133(2):255-257.

Kaiser HA, Hirschi T, Sleigh C, Reineke D, Hartwich V, Stucki M, Rummel C, Sleigh J,  Hight D. Comorbidity-dependent changes in alpha and broadband electroencephalogram power during general anaesthesia for cardiac surgery. Br J Anaesth. 2020 Jul 31;S0007-0912(20)30540-7

Kaiser HA, Peus M, Luedi MM, Lersch  F, Krejci V, Reineke D, Sleigh J, Hight D. Frontal electroencephalogram reveals emergence-like brain activity occurring during transition periods in cardiac surgery. Br J Anaesth 2020 Jul 15;S0007-0912(20)30488-8

Pullon RM, Yan L, Sleigh JW, Warnaby CE. Granger Causality of the Electroencephalogram Reveals Abrupt Global Loss of Cortical Information Flow during Propofol-induced Loss of Responsiveness. Anesthesiology, July 2020.

Voss LJ, Sleigh JW. A Metabolic Mechanism for Anaesthetic Suppression of Cortical Synaptic Function in Mouse Brain Slices-A Pilot Investigation. Int J Mol Sci. 2020 Jul 1;21(13):E4703

Erickson SJ, Long D, Millar J, Anderson BJ, Festa M, Straney L, Shehabi Y, for the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Paediatric Study Group. Dexmedetomidine sedation in mechanically ventilated critically Ill children: a pilot randomized controlled trial. Ped Crit Care Med 2020;21(9):e731-e739 doi: 10.1097/PCC.0000000000002483

Tan L, Carachi P, Anderson BJ. The time course of pain after tonsillectomy. Pediatr Anesth 2020;30:1051–1053 doi: 10.1111/pan.13970

Valtola A, Morse JD, Florkiewicz P, Hautajärvi H, Lahtinen P, Musialowicz T, Anderson BJ, Ranta V-P, Kokki N. Bioavailability of oxycodone by mouth in coronary artery bypass surgery patients – a randomized trial. Journal of Drug Assessment 2020; EPub July 28

Eccleston C, Fisher E, Howard RF, Slater R, Forgeron P, Palermo TM, Birnie K, Anderson BJ, Chambers CT, Crombez G, Ljungman G, Jordan I, Jordan Z, Roberts C, Schechter N, Sieberg C, Tibboel D, Walker SM, Wilkinson D, Wood C. Delivering transformative action in paediatric pain. The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health 2020 EPub 13 Oct

Interviewer bias in selection of anaesthesia Fellows: A single-institution quality assessment study. Navdeep S Sidhu, Greta C Pearce and Alana Cavadino.  Anaesthesia and  Intensive Care 2020

Xavier C. E. Vrijdag, Hanna van Waart, Simon J. Mitchell, Jamie W. Sleigh; An Electroencephalogram Metric of Temporal Complexity Tracks Psychometric Impairment Caused by Low-dose Nitrous Oxide. Anesthesiology Newly Published on December 2, 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.1097/ALN.0000000000003628