Professor, Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine

Anesthesiology

Michael Avidan practices Anesthesiology. He has 1 awards "Top MD". Michael Avidan is a published MD as well. He has 99 publications published. The latest was: Awake intubation of the difficult airway with the intubating laryngeal mask airway. He is registered with Medicare and accepts Medicare payments.

Publications

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• Delirium after surgical and transcatheter aortic valve replacement is associated with increased mortality.
• The Fallacy of Persistent Postoperative Cognitive Decline.
• Persistent Postoperative Cognitive Decline?: The Pyramid of Evidence.
• Amnesia of the Operating Room in the B-Unaware and BAG-RECALL Clinical Trials.
• Intraoperative awareness risk, anesthetic sensitivity, and anesthetic management for patients with natural red hair: a matched cohort study.
• Intraoperative awareness: controversies and non-controversies.
• Neurotoxicity of general anaesthesia is hypothetical.
• Effects of regional versus general anesthesia on outcomes after total hip arthroplasty: a retrospective propensity-matched cohort study.
• Psychological Sequelae of Surgery in a Prospective Cohort of Patients from Three Intraoperative Awareness Prevention Trials.
• Mind the gap: attitudes towards intraoperative brain monitoring.
• Systematic review of falls in older adults with cancer.
• Beware the Boojum: the NAP5 audit of accidental awareness during intended general anaesthesia.
• Power of negative thinking.
• Neurological complications of surgery and anaesthesia.
• Alerting thresholds for the prevention of intraoperative awareness with explicit recall: A secondary analysis of the Michigan Awareness Control Study.
• Psychological trajectories after intraoperative awareness with explicit recall.
• Postoperative Delirium: Disconnecting the Network?
• Monitoring the brain: processed electroencephalogram and peri-operative outcomes.
• Association between intraoperative electroencephalographic suppression and postoperative mortality‡.
• Impact of right-handedness on anaesthetic sensitivity, intra-operative awareness and postoperative mortality.
• Dementia and sensitivity to anesthetics.
• Postoperative Delirium in a Substudy of Cardiothoracic Surgical Patients in the BAG-RECALL Clinical Trial.
• Perioperative cognitive trajectory in adults.
• The incidence of intra-operative awareness in the UK: under the rate or under the radar?
• II. The incidence of intraoperative awareness in the UK: under the rate or under the radar?
• Brief report: assessment of intraoperative awareness with explicit recall: a comparison of 2 methods.
• Obstructive sleep apnea screening and postoperative mortality in a large surgical cohort.
• Minimum alveolar concentration: ongoing relevance and clinical utility.
• The Impact of Bispectral Index Versus End-Tidal Anesthetic Concentration-Guided Anesthesia on Time to Tracheal Extubation in Fast-Track Cardiac Surgery.
• Postoperative Recovery with Bispectral Index versus Anesthetic Concentration-Guided Protocols.
• Prevention of Intraoperative Awareness with Explicit Recall: Making Sense of the Evidence.
• Capturing covert consciousness.
• Incidence, predictors and outcomes of postoperative coma: An observational study of 858?606 patients.
• Postoperative Cognitive Trajectories in Adults: The Role of Inflammatory Processes.
• Brain Monitoring with Electroencephalography and the Electroencephalogram-Derived Bispectral Index During Cardiac Surgery.
• Ketamine-induced Neuroapoptosis in the Fetal and Neonatal Rhesus Macaque Brain.
• Relationship between Bispectral Index Values and Volatile Anesthetic Concentrations during the Maintenance Phase of Anesthesia in the B-Unaware Trial.
• The occurrence of antibodies to heparin-platelet factor 4 in cardiac and thoracic surgical patients receiving desirudin or heparin for postoperative venous thrombosis ...
• Estimation of the bispectral index by anesthesiologists: an inverse turing test.
• Intraoperative awareness: from neurobiology to clinical practice.
• Stable and dynamic cortical electrophysiology of induction and emergence with propofol anesthesia.
• Postoperative cognitive decline: the unsubstantiated phenotype.
• Isoflurane-induced neuroapoptosis in the neonatal rhesus macaque brain.
• A novel classification instrument for intraoperative awareness events.
• Evidence is lacking for interventions proposed to prevent unintended awareness during general anesthesia for cesarean delivery.
• Plasma exchange for heparin-induced thrombocytopenia: is there enough evidence?
• Long-term cognitive decline in older subjects was not attributable to noncardiac surgery or major illness.
• Processed electroencephalogram in depth of anesthesia monitoring.
• Performance of certified registered nurse anesthetists and anesthesiologists in a simulation-based skills assessment.
• Impact of gender on the myocardial metabolic response to obesity.
• Anesthesia awareness and the bispectral index.
• Mild hypercapnia after uncomplicated heart surgery is not associated with hemodynamic compromise.
• Intrapatient reproducibility of the BISxp monitor.
• The evidence that deep anesthesia impacts long term mortality is not compelling.
• A phase III, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter study on the efficacy of recombinant human antithrombin in heparin-resistant patients scheduled to undergo c...
• Inhaled prostacyclin is safe, effective, and affordable in patients with pulmonary hypertension, right heart dysfunction, and refractory hypoxemia after cardiothoracic...
• Low complication rate associated with cesarean section under spinal anesthesia for HIV-1-infected women on antiretroviral therapy.
• Regulation of hypoxic death in C. elegans by the insulin/IGF receptor homolog DAF-2.
• Contaminated heparin and outcomes after cardiac surgery: a retrospective propensity-matched cohort study.
• The Prevention of Delirium and Complications Associated with Surgical Treatments (PODCAST) study: protocol for an international multicentre randomised controlled trial.
• Impact of anesthesia management characteristics on severe morbidity and mortality: are we convinced?
• Performance of residents and anesthesiologists in a simulation-based skill assessment.
• Potential of xenon to induce or to protect against neuroapoptosis in the developing mouse brain.
• A randomized study in diabetic patients undergoing cardiac surgery comparing computer-guided glucose management with a standard sliding scale protocol.
• Prevalence of undiagnosed obstructive sleep apnea among adult surgical patients in an academic medical center.
• Protocol for the BAG-RECALL clinical trial: a prospective, multi-center, randomized, controlled trial to determine whether a bispectral index-guided protocol is superi...
• Protocol for the "Michigan Awareness Control Study": A prospective, randomized, controlled trial comparing electronic alerts based on bispectral index monitoring or mi...
• Prevention of awareness during general anesthesia.
• Pharmacology and clinical applications of human recombinant antithrombin.
• Association of perioperative risk factors and cumulative duration of low bispectral index with intermediate-term mortality after cardiac surgery in the B-Unaware Trial.
• Review of clinical evidence for persistent cognitive decline or incident dementia attributable to surgery or general anesthesia.
• Bispectral index monitoring, duration of bispectral index below 45, patient risk factors, and intermediate-term mortality after noncardiac surgery in the B-Unaware Tr...
• Pharmacologic approaches to the prevention of intraoperative awareness.
• Surgery and the plastic brain.
• Desirudin: a review of the pharmacology and clinical application for the prevention of deep vein thrombosis.
• Prevention of intraoperative awareness in a high-risk surgical population.
• Patient safety event reporting in critical care: a study of three intensive care units.
• Case report: inferior vena-cava right atrial anastomotic stenosis after bicaval orthotopic heart transplantation.
• Poor inter-rater reliability on mock anesthesia oral examinations.
• Morbidity and mortality associated with accidentally entrapped pulmonary artery catheters during cardiac surgery: a case series.
• Use of the Patient State Index (PSI) to assist in the diagnosis of perioperative neurological injury and brain death.
• Reporting and classification of patient safety events in a cardiothoracic intensive care unit and cardiothoracic postoperative care unit.
• Low-dose intrathecal morphine does not delay early extubation after cardiac surgery.
• Recombinant human antithrombin III restores heparin responsiveness and decreases activation of coagulation in heparin-resistant patients during cardiopulmonary bypass.
• Off-label use of recombinant factor VIIA concentrates after cardiac surgery.
• Preoperative use of enoxaparin increases the risk of postoperative bleeding and re-exploration in cardiac surgery patients.
• Glucose, insulin and potassium for heart protection during cardiac surgery.
• Catheter-associated urinary tract infections in intensive care units.
• The implications of HIV for the anaesthetist and the intensivist.
• Comparison of laryngeal mask and intubating laryngeal mask insertion by the naïve intubator.
• The intubating laryngeal mask airway compared with direct laryngoscopy.
• Point-of-care assessment of haemostasis after cardiopulmonary bypass.
• An unexpected complication of the intubating laryngeal mask.
• Safer non-cardiac surgery for patients with coronary artery disease. Preoperative aspirin does increase risk of perioperative bleeding.
• Awake intubation of the difficult airway with the intubating laryngeal mask airway.
• Convection warmers--not just hot air.
• Comparison of structured use of routine laboratory tests or near-patient assessment with clinical judgement in the management of bleeding after cardiac surgery.
• Postoperative cognitive dysfunction: overinterpretation of data?

Doctors Specialties

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• Critical Care Surgery
• Anesthesiology

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• Top MD

Education

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• University of the Witwatersrand

Hospital

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• Barnes-Jewish Hospital

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Medicare Facts

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National Provider Identifier [NPI]	1053338582
Last Name Of The Provider	AVIDAN
First Name Of The Provider	MICHAEL
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