Publications

• Provenzano DA, Hanes M, Hunt C, Benzon HT, Grider JS, Cawcutt K, Doshi TL, Hayek S, Hoelzer B, Johnson RL  et al.  ASRA Pain Medicine consensus practice infection control guidelines for regional anesthesia and pain medicine.  Reg Anesth Pain Med  2025 Jul 17;. pii:rapm-2024-105651
• Fass OZ, Kristinsdottir K, Kaklamanos E, Soni P, Hudson K, Etemadi M, Pandolfino JE, Carlson DA  Improved Performance of an Updated Artificial Intelligence Model for Interpretation of Functional Lumen Imaging Probe Panometry Studies.  Neurogastroenterol Motil  2025 Jul 13;:e70120. doi:10.1111/nmo.70120
• Hoydonckx Y, Feoktistov A, Amoozegar F, Anderson CC, Barad M, Burke E, Chitsantikul P, Doshi TL, Englesakis M, Goel A  et al.  Practice advisory for intravenous management of headache disorders in hospitalized patients: a review of the evidence and consensus recommendations.  Reg Anesth Pain Med  2025 Jul 02;. pii:rapm-2025-106718
• Garcia-Tomas V, Benzon HT, Peralta FM  Air or Saline? Unlocking the Best Approach for Loss-of-Resistance During Epidural Space Access.  Anesth Analg  2025 Jul 01;141(1):100-102. doi:10.1213/ANE.0000000000007484
• Stika CS, Avram MJ, George AL, Yang A, Ciolino JD, Jeong H, Venkataramanan R, Caritis SN, Costantine MM, Wisner KL  Changes in S-Citalopram Plasma Concentrations Across Pregnancy and Postpartum.  Clin Pharmacol Ther  2025 Jul;118(1):106-117. doi:10.1002/cpt.3642
• Li M, Fass OZ, Carlson DA, Pitisuttithum P, Goudie E, Kristinsdottir K, Kaklamanos E, Etemadi M, Keswani RN, Ellison A  et al.  Endoscopic Prediction of Achalasia: Putting the CART Before the CARS.  Neurogastroenterol Motil  2025 Jul;37(7):e70024. pii:e70024
• Benzon HA, Belani K, Cheon EC  Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting in Children: Challenges and Some Solutions.  Anesth Analg  2025 Jul 01;141(1):74-76. doi:10.1213/ANE.0000000000007326
• Rathod SN, Barajas G, Mitchell BI, Malczynski M, Moore WJ, Weslander E, Bulger C, Stone A, Al-Qamari A, Bertram CM  et al.  Candida auris outbreak in a cardiothoracic transplant intensive care unit: implications for infection prevention practices and keeping pace with an evolving landscape.  Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol  2025 Jun 23;:1-8. doi:10.1017/ice.2025.10217
• Huang J, Wittbrodt MT, Teague CN, Karl E, Galal G, Thompson M, Chapa A, Chiu ML, Herynk B, Linchangco R  et al.  Efficiency and Quality of Generative AI-Assisted Radiograph Reporting.  JAMA Netw Open  2025 Jun 02;8(6):e2513921. pii:e2513921
• Cohen SP, Keshwani AA, Khan D, Stojanovic MP  Lumbar epidural steroid injections for lumbosacral radicular pain in patients with normal imaging: A propensity-matched study.  Interv Pain Med  2025 Jun;4(2):100574. pii:100574
• Garcia-Tomas V, Rohan V, Agrawal A, Liu TG, Arora R, Tran A, Harris M, Nadig SN  Moving toward outpatient kidney transplantation: A case report.  Am J Transplant  2025 Jun;25(6):1350-1353. doi:10.1016/j.ajt.2025.03.028
• Benzon HT, Souza D, Nagpal A, Hunt C, Provenzano DA, FitzGerald JD  Reply to: Comment on: Guidelines for use and safety of corticosteroid injections in joints and musculoskeletal soft tissue.  Reg Anesth Pain Med  2025 May 24;. pii:rapm-2025-106815
• Chadwick AL, Carabini LM  Compassion and Cost Savings: The True Value of Humanism in Perioperative Care.  Anesth Analg  2025 May 01;140(5):1037-1039. doi:10.1213/ANE.0000000000007254
• Fernandez-Bustamante A, Parker RA, Frendl G, Lee JW, Nagrebetsky A, Grecu L, Amar D, Tanaka P, Sprung J, Gupta RA  et al.  Perioperative lung expansion and pulmonary outcomes after open abdominal surgery versus usual care in the USA (PRIME-AIR): a multicentre, randomised, controlled, phase 3 trial.  Lancet Respir Med  2025 May;13(5):447-459. doi:10.1016/S2213-2600(25)00040-2
• Sultan P, Pandal P, Murthy A, Guo N, Farber MK, Toledo P, Higgins N, Fiore JF, Domingue BW, Khorasani E  et al.  Development and Validation of the Stanford Obstetric Recovery Checklist (STORK): A Delphi Consensus and Multicenter Clinical Validation Study.  JAMA Netw Open  2025 Apr 01;8(4):e255713. pii:e255713
• Lewis C, Gupta RA, Nelson A, Koning M  Single-Injection Intrathecal Hydrophilic Opioids in Abdominal Surgery: Ready to Roll Out?  Anesth Analg  2025 Apr 01;140(4):888-890. doi:10.1213/ANE.0000000000006857
• Templeton TW, Alex G, Eloy JD, Stollings L, Ing RJ, Cheon EC, Belani K, Breskin I, Sebel PS, Taicher BM  et al.  BIS Guided Titration of Sevoflurane in Pediatric Patients Undergoing Elective Surgery: A Randomized Controlled Trial.  Paediatr Anaesth  2025 Apr;35(4):277-286. doi:10.1111/pan.15057
• Benzon HT, Provenzano DA, Nagpal A, Souza D, Eckmann MS, Nelson AM, Mina M, Abd-Elsayed A, Elmofty D, Chadwick AL  et al.  Use and safety of corticosteroid injections in joints and musculoskeletal soft tissue: guidelines from the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, the American Academy of Pain Medicine, the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, and the International Pain and Spine Intervention Society.  Reg Anesth Pain Med  2025 Mar 12;. pii:rapm-2024-105656
• Benzon HT, Elmofty D, Shankar H, Rana M, Chadwick AL, Shah S, Souza D, Nagpal AS, Abdi S, Rafla C  et al.  Use of corticosteroids for adult chronic pain interventions: sympathetic and peripheral nerve blocks, trigger point injections - guidelines from the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, the American Academy of Pain Medicine, the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, and the International Pain and Spine Intervention Society.  Reg Anesth Pain Med  2025 Mar 12;. pii:rapm-2024-105593
• Hallmark AK, McCarthy RJ, Stetson BT, Banayan JM  Spinal chloroprocaine versus bupivacaine without opioid adjuvant for transvaginal cervical cerclage placement: a pragmatic retrospective cohort study (2018-2023).  Int J Obstet Anesth  2025 Feb;61:104323. doi:10.1016/j.ijoa.2024.104323
• Belani K, Brinker V, Fuller M, Cooter M, Schroder JN, Mamoun N, DeVore A, Swaminathan M, Nicoara A, McCartney SL  Tricuspid Regurgitation after Orthotopic Heart Transplantation: Trajectories and Association With Mortality.  Clin Transplant  2025 Jan;39(1):e70062. pii:e70062
• Budd AN, Parulkar SD, Carabini LM, McCarthy RJ  4-Factor prothrombin complex concentrates and factor VIII inhibitor bypass activity use in cardiac surgery.  Blood Coagul Fibrinolysis  2025 Jan 01;36(1):18-25. doi:10.1097/MBC.0000000000001335
• Yu S, Dhawan R, Kenny ES, Banayan JM, Bodmer NJ, Sun LY, Oakes D  Like Mother, Like Daughter: A Case of Peripartum Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection.  J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth  2025 Jan;39(1):292-300. doi:10.1053/j.jvca.2024.09.011
• Nunn KP, Velazquez AA, Bebawy JF, Ma K, Sinedino BE, Goel A, Pereira SM  Perioperative Methadone for Spine Surgery: A Scoping Review.  J Neurosurg Anesthesiol  2025 Jan 01;37(1):31-39. doi:10.1097/ANA.0000000000000966
• Wahezi SE, Yener U, Naeimi T, Choi H, Eshraghi Y, Pritzlaff SG, Emerick T, Hunter CW, Caparo M, Schatman ME  et al.  Employer Perspective on Pain Fellowship Education: A Survey to Understand the Current State of Pain Medicine Training.  J Pain Res  2024;17:4573-4582. doi:10.2147/JPR.S487990
• Gould A, Luan Y, Hou Y, Korobova FV, Chen L, Arrieta VA, Amidei C, Ward R, Gomez C, Castro B  et al.  Endothelial response to blood-brain barrier disruption in the human brain.  JCI Insight  2024 Dec 26;10(4). pii:e187328
• DeLeon A, Tureanu L, Vetter O, Liu T, Korula R, Garcia Tomas V, Asher Y  Using Rotational Thromboelastometry (ROTEM) to Evaluate Coagulation Status After Intrapleural Recombinant Tissue Plasminogen Activator (rtPA) Administration in Regional Anesthesia.  Cureus  2024 Dec;16(12):e75547. pii:e75547
• Liu TG, Chen L, Garcia-Tomas V  Competing Interests: A Case Report of Thoracic Epidural Management and Cangrelor Anticoagulation in a Critically Ill Patient.  A A Pract  2024 Dec 01;18(12):e01880. doi:10.1213/XAA.0000000000001880
• Benzon HT, Nelson AM, Patel AG, Chiang S, Agarwal D, Benzon HA, Rozental J, McCarthy RJ  Literature review of spinal hematoma case reports: causes and outcomes in pediatric, obstetric, neuraxial and pain medicine cases.  Reg Anesth Pain Med  2024 Dec 02;49(12):900-906. doi:10.1136/rapm-2023-105161
• Nieb JM, Garcia Tomas V, Chen L  Unintentional Mediastinal Placement of Thoracic Epidural Catheter Incidentally Discovered on Computed Tomography Imaging: A Case Report.  A A Pract  2024 Nov 01;18(11):e01864. doi:10.1213/XAA.0000000000001864
• El-Boghdadly K, Albrecht E, Wolmarans M, Mariano ER, Kopp S, Perlas A, Thottungal A, Gadsden J, Tulgar S, Adhikary S  et al.  Standardizing nomenclature in regional anesthesia: an ASRA-ESRA Delphi consensus study of upper and lower limb nerve blocks.  Reg Anesth Pain Med  2024 Nov 04;49(11):782-792. doi:10.1136/rapm-2023-104884
• Choi W, Fattah M, Shang Y, Thompson MP, Carrow KP, Hu D, Liu Z, Avram MJ, Bailey K, Berger O  et al.  Proteomimetic polymer blocks mitochondrial damage, rescues Huntington's neurons, and slows onset of neuropathology in vivo.  Sci Adv  2024 Nov;10(44):eado8307. pii:eado8307
• Ellis E, Salloum J, Hire M, McCarthy RJ, Higgins N  Prophylactic cosyntropin after unintentional dural puncture and incidence of post-dural puncture headache and epidural blood patch use: A retrospective cohort study (2019-2022).  Int J Obstet Anesth  2024 Nov;60:104262. doi:10.1016/j.ijoa.2024.104262
• Hallmark AK, Lindley KJ, Banayan JM  Peripartum management of cardiac arrhythmias: a narrative review.  Int J Obstet Anesth  2024 Nov;60:104243. doi:10.1016/j.ijoa.2024.104243
• Woodward SK, McCrory EH, Neumann KE, Lu SF, McCarthy RJ, Peralta FM  P6 acupressure versus sham acupressure for prevention of intraoperative nausea and vomiting during cesarean delivery under neuraxial anesthesia: a randomized controlled trial.  Int J Obstet Anesth  2024 Nov;60:104242. doi:10.1016/j.ijoa.2024.104242
• Carneiro HA, Cook A, Belani K, Benzuly K, Knight B  Percutaneous closure of the left atrial appendage after failed surgical closure using a septal occluder device guided by real-time 4-dimensional intracardiac echocardiography.  J Interv Card Electrophysiol  2024 Nov;67(8):1959-1962. doi:10.1007/s10840-024-01824-9
• Baumgardt SL, Fang J, Fu X, Liu Y, Xia Z, Zhao M, Chen L, Mishra R, Gunasekaran M, Saha P  et al.  Genetic deletion or pharmacologic inhibition of histone deacetylase 6 protects the heart against ischaemia/reperfusion injury by limiting tumour necrosis factor alpha-induced mitochondrial injury in experimental diabetes.  Cardiovasc Res  2024 Oct 14;120(12):1456-1471. doi:10.1093/cvr/cvae144
• Maniker RB, Sondekoppam RV, Benzon HT  The Impact of Regional Anesthesia on Chronic Postsurgical Pain and Persistent Postoperative Opioid Use: Challenges and Opportunities.  Anesth Analg  2024 Oct 01;139(4):687-689. doi:10.1213/ANE.0000000000007056
• Toleikis JR, Pace C, Jahangiri FR, Hemmer LB, Toleikis SC  Intraoperative somatosensory evoked potential (SEP) monitoring: an updated position statement by the American Society of Neurophysiological Monitoring.  J Clin Monit Comput  2024 Oct;38(5):1003-1042. doi:10.1007/s10877-024-01201-x
• Lele AV, Bebawy JF, Takala R  The External Ventricular Drain Safety Campaign: A Global Patient Safety Initiative of the Society for Neuroscience in Anesthesiology and Critical Care.  J Neurosurg Anesthesiol  2024 Oct 01;36(4):275-277. doi:10.1097/ANA.0000000000000982
• Stump CM, Peralta FM, Sultan P, Holland ME, Badreldin N, Shepard LC, McCarthy RJ  Association of inpatient postpartum recovery with patient-reported outcome measures following hospital discharge: a prospective cohort study.  BMC Pregnancy Childbirth  2024 Sep 28;24(1):618. pii:618
• Wahezi SE, Emerick TD, Caparó M, Choi H, Eshraghi Y, Naeimi T, Kohan L, Anitescu M, Wright T, Przkora R  et al.  The current state of training in pain medicine fellowships: An Association of Pain Program Directors (APPD) survey of program directors.  Pain Pract  2024 Sep;24(7):895-903. doi:10.1111/papr.13373
• Wittbrodt M, Klug M, Etemadi M, Yang A, Pandolfino JE, Keswani RN  Assessment of colonoscopy skill using machine learning to measure quality: Proof-of-concept and initial validation.  Endosc Int Open  2024 Jul;12(7):E849-E853. doi:10.1055/a-2333-8138
• Wahezi SE, Naeimi T, Caparo M, Emerick TD, Choi H, Eshraghi Y, Anitescu M, Patel K, Przkora R, Wright T  et al.  Trainee Insight into Pain Fellowship Programs: A Critical Evaluation of the Current Educational System by the APPD.  Pain Physician  2024 Jul;27(5):E627-E636
• Engle AM, Khanna R, Abd-Elsayed A  Radiofrequency ablation for the cervical spine.  Ann Palliat Med  2024 Jul;13(4):1047-1055. doi:10.21037/apm-23-520
• Selvamani BJ, Kalagara H, Volk T, Narouze S, Childs C, Patel A, Seering MS, Benzon HT, Sondekoppam RV  Infectious complications following regional anesthesia: a narrative review and contemporary estimates of risk.  Reg Anesth Pain Med  2024 Jun 05;. pii:rapm-2024-105496
• Vu EL, Brown CH, Brady KM, Hogue CW  Monitoring of cerebral blood flow autoregulation: physiologic basis, measurement, and clinical implications.  Br J Anaesth  2024 Jun;132(6):1260-1273. doi:10.1016/j.bja.2024.01.043
• Huang M, Okocha O, Selzer A  Perioperative management of penicillin allergy - the essential partnership between physicians and patients in advancing antibiotic stewardship.  J Clin Anesth  2024 Jun;94:111426. doi:10.1016/j.jclinane.2024.111426
• Chappell AG, Kalainov DM, Samworth A, Yuksel SS, Rangwani S, Nader A  Permanent Peripheral Nerve Stimulator for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome of the Forearm and Hand.  Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open  2024 May;12(5):e5764. pii:e5764
• Berger O, Choi W, Ko CH, Thompson MP, Avram MJ, Scott DJ, Hoare BL, Cridge R, Wheatley M, Bathgate RAD  et al.  Long-Circulating Vasoactive 1,18-Octadecanedioic Acid-Terlipressin Conjugate.  ACS Pharmacol Transl Sci  2024 May 10;7(5):1252-1261. doi:10.1021/acsptsci.3c00305