Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Professor of Neurological Surgery, Professor of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Director of Pediatric Pain Service, Richard J. Traystman Distinguished Professor

Anesthesiology

Myron Yaster, MD works in the field of Anesthesiology. He went to State University of New York Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine. Myron Yaster has written publications. He has 99 publications published with PubMed. The lastest publication is: 'The pediatric sedation unit: a mechanism for safe sedation.'

Publications

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• An Analysis of 34,218 Pediatric Outpatient Controlled Substance Prescriptions.
• Pain management following major intracranial surgery in pediatric patients: a prospective cohort study in three academic children's hospitals.
• The development of a specialty: an interview with Dr. Mark C. Rogers, a pioneering pediatric intensivist.
• The postoperative management of pain from intracranial surgery in pediatric neurosurgical patients.
• Pain prevalence, intensity, assessment and management in a hospitalized pediatric population.
• Breaking the glass ceiling: an interview with Dr. Shirley Graves, a pioneering woman in medicine.
• The development of pediatric fluid resuscitation: an interview with Dr. Frederic A. 'Fritz' Berry.
• Surgical Procedures and Outcomes Among Children with Sickle Cell Disease.
• The development of pediatric critical care medicine at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: an interview with Dr. John J. 'Jack' Downes.
• Protein Kinase B/Akt Is Required for Complete Freund's Adjuvant-Induced Upregulation of Nav1.7 and Nav1.8 in Primary Sensory Neurons.
• mTOR and its downstream pathway are activated in the dorsal root ganglion and spinal cord after peripheral inflammation, but not after nerve injury.
• The development of continuous positive airway pressure: an interview with Dr. George Gregory.
• Spinal Cord NMDA Receptor-Mediated Activation of Mammalian Target of Rapamycin Is Required for the Development and Maintenance of Bone Cancer-Induced Pain Hypersensiti...
• Off-Label Use of Medications in Children Undergoing Sedation and Anesthesia.
• Pediatric analgesic clinical trial designs, measures, and extrapolation: report of an FDA scientific workshop.
• The efficacy of intravenous patient-controlled analgesia after intracranial surgery of the posterior fossa: a prospective, randomized controlled trial.
• The Optimal Dose of Prophylactic Intravenous Naloxone in Ameliorating Opioid-Induced Side Effects in Children Receiving Intravenous Patient-Controlled Analgesia Morphi...
• Increased expression of sodium channel subunit Nav1.1 in the injured dorsal root ganglion after peripheral nerve injury.
• Pain is a common problem affecting clinical outcomes in adults with cystic fibrosis.
• Preserved acute pain and impaired neuropathic pain in mice lacking protein interacting with C Kinase 1.
• Effect of inhibition of spinal cord glutamate transporters on inflammatory pain induced by formalin and complete Freund's adjuvant.
• Food and Drug Administration approval for medications used in the pediatric intensive care unit: A continuing conundrum.
• A survey of perioperative management of sickle cell disease in North America.
• Genetics for the pediatric anesthesiologist: a primer on congenital malformations, pharmacogenetics, and proteomics.
• Spinal cord protein interacting with C kinase 1 is required for the maintenance of complete Freund''s adjuvant-induced inflammatory pain but not for incision-induced p...
• Expression and distribution of mTOR, p70S6K, 4E-BP1, and their phosphorylated counterparts in rat dorsal root ganglion and spinal cord dorsal horn.
• Multimodal analgesia in children.
• A national survey of American Pediatric Anesthesiologists: patient-controlled analgesia and other intravenous opioid therapies in pediatric acute pain management.
• Clonidine as an adjunct therapy to opioids for neonatal abstinence syndrome: a randomized, controlled trial.
• Efficacy of intravenous patient-controlled analgesia after supratentorial intracranial surgery: a prospective randomized controlled trial. Clinical article.
• Proteome of synaptosome-associated proteins in spinal cord dorsal horn after peripheral nerve injury.
• Role of spinal cord alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid receptors in complete Freund''s adjuvant-induced inflammatory pain.
• Assessing controlled substance prescribing errors in a pediatric teaching hospital: an analysis of the safety of analgesic prescription practice in the transition from...
• A survey of anesthesiologists' knowledge of American Heart Association Pediatric Advanced Life Support Resuscitation Guidelines.
• Distinct expression of synaptic NR2A and NR2B in the central nervous system and impaired morphine tolerance and physical dependence in mice deficient in postsynaptic d...
• Pharmacokinetics And Pharmacodynamics Of Fenoldopam Mesylate For Blood Pressure Control In Pediatric Patients.
• The perioperative management of pain from intracranial surgery.
• Perioperative anesthetic and analgesic management of newborn bladder exstrophy repair.
• Stable plasma concentrations of unbound ropivacaine during postoperative epidural infusion for 24-72 hours in children.
• Knowledge of procedural sedation and analgesia of emergency medicine physicians.
• Genetic knockout and pharmacologic inhibition of neuronal nitric oxide synthase attenuate nerve injury-induced mechanical hypersensitivity in mice.
• Prospective evaluation of pain and analgesic use following major elective intracranial surgery.
• Victims of our own success or quo vadis pediatric anesthesia?
• Sickle cell and anesthesia: do not abandon well-established practices without evidence.
• The effects of a small-dose naloxone infusion on opioid-induced side effects and analgesia in children and adolescents treated with intravenous patient-controlled anal...
• Peripherally inserted central catheters: a randomized, controlled, prospective trial in pediatric surgical patients.
• The continuing conundrum of sedation for painful and nonpainful procedures.
• Evidence of neuronal excitatory amino acid carrier 1 expression in rat dorsal root ganglion neurons and their central terminals.
• Knockdown of spinal cord postsynaptic density protein-95 prevents the development of morphine tolerance in rats.
• Brain glucose metabolism in Rett Syndrome.
• A randomized multicenter study of remifentanil compared with halothane in neonates and infants undergoing pyloromyotomy. II. Perioperative breathing patterns in neonat...
• A randomized multicenter study of remifentanil compared with halothane in neonates and infants undergoing pyloromyotomy. I. Emergence and recovery profiles.
• Pain management in the critically ill child.
• Tunneled epidural catheters for prolonged analgesia in pediatric patients.
• Perioperative management issues in pediatric patients.
• The safety and efficacy of parent-/nurse-controlled analgesia in patients less than six years of age.
• Pain and symptom control in terminally ill children.
• The management of pain in sickle cell disease.
• Pediatric acute pain management.
• Anterograde and retrograde memory in children anesthetized with propofol.
• Videotape increases parental knowledge about pediatric pain management.
• Analgesia for neonatal circumcision: no more studies, just do it.
• The pediatric sedation unit: a mechanism for safe sedation.
• Craniocerebral magnetic resonance imaging measurement and findings in Lesch-Nyhan syndrome.
• Bacterial colonization and infection rate of continuous epidural catheters in children.
• Detection of intravascular injection of regional anaesthetics in children.
• Pain and human immunodeficiency virus infection in children.
• Re: Continuous epidural anesthesia after ureteroneocystostomy in children.
• The myth of conscious sedation.
• The management of opioid and benzodiazepine dependence in infants, children, and adolescents.
• Dopamine transporters are markedly reduced in Lesch-Nyhan disease in vivo.
• Interaction of fentanyl and nitrous oxide on peripheral and cerebral hemodynamics in newborn lambs.
• Local anesthetics in the management of acute pain in children.
• The night after surgery. Postoperative management of the pediatric outpatient--surgical and anesthetic aspects.
• Disposition and respiratory effects of intrathecal morphine in children.
• Bupivacaine-induced cardiac toxicity in neonates: successful treatment with intravenous phenytoin.
• Epidural analgesia in the management of severe vaso-occlusive sickle cell crisis.
• Preanesthetic medication of children with midazolam using the Biojector jet injector.
• Pain relief.
• Pediatric caudal epidural catheter sequestration: an unusual complication.
• Life-threatening airway obstruction as a complication to the management of mediastinal masses in children.
• The dose response of fentanyl in neonatal anesthesia.
• Anesthetic implications of protein C deficiency.
• Penile nerve block for newborn circumcision.
• Effects of fentanyl on peripheral and cerebral hemodynamics in neonatal lambs.
• Does halothane protect against hypoxia?
• A comparison of nitroglycerin and nitroprusside for inducing hypotension in children: a double-blind study.
• Hemodynamic effects of primary closure of omphalocele/gastroschisis in human newborns.
• Interaction of fentanyl and pentobarbital on peripheral and cerebral hemodynamics in newborn lambs.
• Management of pediatric pain with opioid analgesics.
• Analgesia and anesthesia in neonates.
• The pharmacologic management of pain in children.
• Pediatric regional anesthesia.
• Prediction of successful primary closure of congenital abdominal wall defects using intraoperative measurements.
• Midazolam-fentanyl intravenous sedation in children: case report of respiratory arrest.
• Preinduction of anesthesia in children with rectally administered midazolam.
• Local anesthetics in the management of acute pain in children: a primer for the non-anesthesiologist.
• Pediatric transport medicine and the dawn of the pediatric anesthesiology and critical care medicine subspecialty: an interview with pioneer Dr. Alvin Hackel.

Schools

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• Suny Downstate Medical Center

• Chldns Hospital Of Pittsburgh

• University Of Pennsylvania

• Children39s Hospital Of Philadelphia

Doctors Specialties

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• Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
• Anesthesiology

Accepted Insurances

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• Cigna HMO
• Cigna PPO
• Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
• Open Access Plus
• Commercial Insurance Company
• Coventry Health Care
• First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
• Geisinger Health Plan
• Medicaid
• Medicare MCR

Education

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• Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
• University of Pennsylvania Health System
• University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
• State University of New York Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine

Hospital

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• Johns Hopkins Hospital

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