Brendan Carvalho
Academic Appointments
- Associate Professor - Med Center Line, Anesthesia
- Member, Child Health Research Institute
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Contact Information
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Clinical Offices
Department of Anesthesia 300 Pasteur Dr MC 5640 H3589 Stanford, CA 94305 Tel Work (650) 724-2614 Fax (650) 725-8544Practices at Stanford Hospital and Clinics and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
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Professional Overview
Clinical Focus
- Anesthesia
- Anesthesia, Obstetrical
- Anesthesia, Regional
Professional Education
| Residency: | Southwest School of Anesthesia, England (2001) |
| Residency: | St. Thomas Hospital, England (1999) |
| Internship: | Groote Schuur Hospital, S. Africa (1995) |
| Medical Education: | University of Witwatersrand, South Africa (1994) |
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Scientific Focus
Current Research Interests
I am primarily interested in clinical and translational research covering various aspects related to cesarean anesthesia and labor analgesia. My current area of research focus is post-cesarean pain, predicting pain, pregnancy-induced changes in pain perception, long-acting neuraxial opioids, and patient-controlled epidural labor analgesia. In addition, I have done research on patient perception of cesarean anesthesia risk, determination of effective local anesthetic dosing for intrathecal cesarean anesthesia and peripartum experimental pain thresholds and tolerances. My main research interest lies in developing novel ways of improving post-cesarean and peripartum labor pain. I hope to understand pregnancy-induced changes in pain perception and the mechanism behind post-operative pain. In the future, I hope we will be able to identify patients at risk and prevent the development persistent post-cesarean pain.
Clinical Trials
- Recruiting Effects of Breast Feeding on Post-Cesarean and Post-Vaginal Delivery Pain
- Recruiting Prediction of Post-Cesarean Section Pain
- Recruiting Study of Drug Concentration of Ondansetron and Cefazolin in Mothers and Neonates
- Recruiting Pain Study of Rectus Muscle Closure at Cesarean Delivery
- Not Recruiting Effects of Epidural Lidocaine on the Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Profiles of DepoDur® After Cesarean Delivery
Publications
- A Cost Analysis of Neuraxial Anesthesia to Facilitate External Cephalic Version for Breech Fetal Presentation. Anesth Analg. 2013
- Evaluation of experimental pain tests to predict labour pain and epidural analgesic consumption. Br J Anaesth. 2013; (4): 600-6
- Intrathecal morphine 100 and 200 μg for post-cesarean delivery analgesia: a trade-off between analgesic efficacy and side effects. Int J Obstet Anesth. 2013; (1): 36-41
- Measuring the labor pain experience: delivery still far off. Int J Obstet Anesth. 2013; (1): 6-9
- Peripartum outcomes and anaesthetic management of parturients with moderate to complex congenital heart disease or pulmonary hypertension*. Anaesthesia. 2013; (1): 52-9
- Postoperative subcutaneous instillation of low-dose ketorolac but not hydromorphone reduces wound exudate concentrations of interleukin-6 and interleukin-10 and improves analgesia following cesarean delivery. J Pain. 2013; (1): 48-56
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