Chief, Section of Obstetric Anesthesiology Washington University in St. Louis
Anesthesiology
Dr. Barbara L. Leighton, MD
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Barbara L. Leighton, MD practices Anesthesiology. She graduated from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is a one of the best medicals schools. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is ranked 3 in research and 29 in primary care medicine She over the years received 1 awards: "Top MD". Barbara L. Leighton, MD is a published doctor and has 68 publications published. The lastest was: 'Effect of epidural vs parenteral opioid analgesia on the progress of labor: a meta-analysis.' She accepts Medicare payments and is registered with Medicare.gov.
Publications
- Necrotizing fasciitis after cesarean delivery.
- Supplemental oxygen for the prevention of postcesarean infectious morbidity: a randomized controlled trial.
- Use of Recombinant Factor VIIa in Patients with Amniotic Fluid Embolism: A Systematic Review of Case Reports.
- Why obstetric anesthesiologists get sued.
- Acute respiratory distress syndrome after an exothermic Baralyme-sevoflurane reaction.
- Successful pregnancy and cesarean delivery 22 years after separation in an ischiopagus tetrapus conjoined twin.
- Peripartum substitution of inhaled for intravenous prostacyclin in a patient with primary pulmonary hypertension.
- Misconceptions about neuraxial analgesia.
- A randomized controlled trial examining the effect of naproxen on analgesia during the second day after cesarean delivery.
- The effects of epidural analgesia on labor, maternal, and neonatal outcomes: a systematic review.
- Intrathecal hyperbaric bupivacaine dose response in postpartum tubal ligation patients.
- Epidural analgesia: effects on labor progress and maternal and neonatal outcome.
- A greengrocer's model of the epidural space.
- Succinylcholine pharmacodynamics in peripartum patients.
- A risk-specific anesthesia consent form may hinder the informed consent process.
- "Don''t turn the needle!"--a reply.
- A complication following prophylactic blood patch: spinal or subdural anesthesia?
- In defense of trimethaphan for use in preeclampsia.
- To increase obstetric reimbursement rates, we need to improve the product.
- The epinephrine test dose revisited, again.
- Intravenous nitroglycerin aids manual extraction of a retained placenta.
- Epidural analgesia and risk of caesarean section.
- The risks of lowering the cesarean-delivery rate.
- Air: an effective indicator of intravenously located epidural catheters.
- Epidural labor analgesia and cesarean delivery.
- Risk factors for cesarean delivery in twin gestations near term.
- Epidural analgesia and uterine function.
- Pre-eclamptic and healthy term pregnant patients have different chronotropic responses to isoproterenol.
- Dantrolene: opening the anesthesiologist-proof packaging.
- Limitations of epinephrine as a marker of intravascular injection in laboring women.
- Epidural test dose and intravascular injection in obstetrics: sensitivity, specificity.
- Anesthesia for perinatal surgery.
- Multiport epidural catheters: can orifice location be tested?
- Continuous spinal anesthesia after unintentional dural puncture in parturients.
- Evaluation of a continuous noninvasive blood pressure monitor in obstetric patients undergoing spinal anesthesia.
- Lumbar sympathetic blocks speed early and second stage induced labor in nulliparous women.
- Risk of respiratory arrest after intrathecal sufentanil.
- Needle bevel direction and headache after inadvertent dural puncture.
- Intrathecal meperidine for labor analgesia: preliminary communication.
- Effect of labor analgesia on breastfeeding success.
- The chronotropic effect of isoproterenol is reduced in term pregnant women.
- Spinal anesthesia for cesarean delivery. A comparison of two doses of hyperbaric bupivacaine.
- Lateral position and epidural anesthesia for cesarean section.
- Epidural labor analgesia and the incidence of cesarean delivery for dystocia.
- Isoproterenol is an effective marker of intravenous injection in laboring women.
- The air test as a clinically useful indicator of intravenously placed epidural catheters.
- Multiport epidural catheters: does the air test work?
- Effect of epidural vs parenteral opioid analgesia on the progress of labor: a meta-analysis.
- The incidence of herpes simplex virus labialis after cesarean delivery.
- Subarachnoid labor analgesia. Fentanyl and morphine versus sufentanil and morphine.
- Do patient variables influence the subarachnoid spread of hyperbaric lidocaine in the postpartum patient?
- A comparison of meperidine and lidocaine for spinal anesthesia for postpartum tubal ligation.
- Respiratory arrest following intrathecal injection of sufentanil and bupivacaine in a parturient.
- Intrathecal sufentanil dose response in nulliparous patients.
- The influence of epidural needle bevel orientation on spread of sensory blockade in the laboring parturient.
- The dermatomal spread of epidural bupivacaine with and without prior intrathecal sufentanil.
- Ilioinguinal iliohypogastric nerve blocks--before or after cesarean delivery under spinal anesthesia?
- Intrathecal sufentanil labor analgesia: the effects of adding morphine or epinephrine.
- Complications of labor analgesia: epidural versus combined spinal epidural techniques.
- Intrathecal narcotics for labor revisited: the combination of fentanyl and morphine intrathecally provides rapid onset of profound, prolonged analgesia.
- Incidence of electrocardiographic changes during cesarean delivery under regional anesthesia.
- Comparison among intrathecal fentanyl, meperidine, and sufentanil for labor analgesia.
- Baricity, needle direction, and intrathecal sufentanil labor analgesia.
- Injecting saline through the epidural needle decreases the iv epidural catheter placement rate during combined spinal-epidural labour analgesia.
- Warmed diluent speeds dantrolene reconstitution.
- Awake intubation using an intubating laryngeal mask airway in a parturient with spina bifida.
- Oral sodium citrate increases nausea amongst elective Cesarean delivery patients.
Schools
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Penn Hospital
Hospital University Penn
Doctors Specialties
- Anesthesiology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Top MD
Education
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University of Pennsylvania Health System -
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1316965825 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | LEIGHTON |
| First Name Of The Provider | BARBARA |
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