Katherine Bailey
BSc, MD
Investigator and Pediatric Anesthesiologist, BC Children's Hospital
Pediatric Anesthesia Fellowship Director
Paediatric Anaesthesia
Chen, J.C.-H. and Bailey, K.M. and Buswell, V.
DOI: 10.1111/pan.70036Paediatric Anaesthesia
Srinivasan, I. and Whyte, S. and Bailey, K. and Antrobus, T. and Hinkson-LaCorbinire, K. and Martin, T.W. and Cravero, J.P. and Mason, L.
DOI: 10.1111/pan.14872Canadian Journal of Anesthesia
Bailey, K.M. and Whyte, S.D.
DOI: 10.1007/s12630-022-02352-8Cureus
Katherine Bailey and Nicholas C West and Clyde Matava
DOI: 10.7759/cureus.2234402 / 2022
Paediatric Anaesthesia
King, M.R. and Staffa, S.J. and Stricker, P.A. and Prez-Pradilla, C. and Nelson, O. and Benzon, H.A. and Goobie, S.M. and Abruzzese, C. and Asmal, I. and Bailey, K. and Barker, N. and Bhandari, A. and Beethe, A. and Binstock, W. and van den Bosch, C. and Bradford, V. and Bradley, J. and Bryan, K. and Brzenski, A. and Budac, S. and Busso, V. and de Castro, A. and Castro-Frenzel, K. and Chhabada, S. and Chiao, F. and Ching, J. and Cladis, F. and Claypool, D. and Collins, M. and Correll, L. and Costandi, A. and Dabek, R. and Dalesio, N. and Downard, M. and Echeverry, P. and Edala, T. and Edwards, C. and Ellison, P.R. and Enicker, B. and Falcon, R. and Fernandez, A. and Fernandez, P. and Fiadjoe, J. and Franzen, M. and Gangadharan, M. and Glover, C. and Gosman, A. and Governale, L. and Grivoyannis, A. and Grap, S. and Gries, H. and Griffin, A. and Hajduk, J. and Haas, T. and Hansen, J. and Hetmaniuk, M. and Homi, H.M. and Hsieh, H. and Hsieh, V. and Huang, H. and Ingelmo, P. and Ivanova, I. and Jain, R. and Kamel, G. and Kanmanthreddy, S. and Kars, M. and Koller, J. and Kowalczyk-Derderian, C. and Kugler, J. and Labovsky, K. and Lakheeram, I. and Lazar, A. and Lee, A. and Lee, J. and Madaree, A. and Malviya, S. and Martinez, J.L. and Mason, A. and Medellin, E. and Mehta, V. and Meier, P.M. and Levy, H.M. and Mueller, M. and Muhly, W.T. and Muldowney, B. and Nause-Osthoff, R. and Nelson, J. and Nicholson, J. and Nguyen, K.-P. and Nguyen, T. and Owens-Stubblefield, M. and Pankratz, M. and Parekh, U.R. and Parikh, M. and Patel, J. and Patel, R. and Patel, V. and Petersen, T. and Post, J. and Poteet-Schwartz, K. and Puglia, M.P. and Reddy, S.K. and Reid, R. and Ricketts, K. and McCormick, M.R. and Ryan, L. and Sbrollini, K. and Seidman, P. and Seubert, C. and Salik, I. and Singh, D.J. and Singhal, N.R. and Skitt, R. and Soneru, C. and Sorial, E. and Starker, E. and Stubbeman, B. and Sunder, R. and Sung, W. and Syed, T. and Szmuk, P. and Taicher, B.M. and Taylor, J. and Taylor, K. and Thompson, D. and Titler, S.S. and Ungar-Kastner, G. and Whyte, S. and Wong, A. and Wong, K. and Yates, H. and Zamora, L.
DOI: 10.1111/pan.14540Anesthesia and Analgesia
Bailey, K.M. and Gottlieb, E.A. and Edmonds Jr., J.L. and Miller-Hance, W.C.
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000243331.61117.f2Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology
T ELWOOD and K BAILEY
DOI: 10.1016/s1521-6896(04)00071-003 / 2005
Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a vaso-proliferative disease affecting the developing retinal vessels of premature infants, potentially leading to retinal detachment and blindness. Known major risk factors for developing ROP are low gestational age, hyperoxia, and mechanical ventilation. The gold standard of ROP treatment is laser photocoagulation of the non-vascularized retina under anesthesia.
General anesthesia in premature infants is associated with significant risks, including apnea, arterial blood oxygen desaturation, potential exposure to high inspired oxygen concentrations, and risks related to tracheal intubation. Tracheal intubation to provide mechanical ventilation in neonates has been associated with rare but potentially severe undesired consequences.
HHFNC therapy opens the airway and alveoli through the generation of distending pressure, reduces nasopharyngeal dead space, reduces work of breathing, and heats and humidifies inspired gas, allowing for apneic oxygenation while preventing collapse of the distal airways. There is good evidence that the application of HHFNC in the neonatal population to provide non-invasive respiratory support to prevent hypoxemia is both safe and feasible in the NICU, during anesthesia induction and intraoperative period to facilitate ear, nose and throat (ENT) and general surgery. HHFNC enables the neonate to breathe spontaneously under total intravenous anesthesia (TIVA) and could reduce or eliminate the need for tracheal intubation, mechanical ventilation, and the iatrogenic administration of high oxygen concentrations. More recently, HHFNC has been shown to promote regression of high-risk pre-threshold ROP.
About one-third of people with epilepsy will eventually develop intractable seizures which are refractory to medical management. Electrocorticography (ECoG), a form of neuromonitoring, is considered to be the gold standard for assessing neuronal activity in patients with epilepsy, and is widely used for presurgical planning and intraoperatively to guide surgical resection of the lesion and epileptogenic zone. Anesthetic agents can impact the accuracy of electrocorticography during surgery.
We are currently conducting a prospective audit of 25 sequential Epilepsy surgery cases using ECoG to describe our institutional experience. Specifically, we are looking at the anesthetic technique being used, the quality of the ECoG being captured, and the one year seizure outcomes after epilepsy surgery.
Pyeloplasty is a surgical procedure used to correct a condition called ureteropelvic junction (UPJ) obstruction. Ureteropelvic junction (UPJ) obstruction is a blockage at the point where part of the kidney attaches to one of the tubes to the bladder (ureters). This blocks the flow of urine out of the kidney. One out of every 1500 babies is born with UPJ obstruction. Pain after pyeloplasty surgery is most severe in the first 24-48 hours after surgery.
The erector spinae plane (ESP) block is a paraspinal fascial plane block done under ultrasound guidance to inject local anesthetic between the tip of the transverse process of the thoracic or lumbar vertebra and the anterior fascia of the erector spinae muscles. The block targets the dorsal and ventral rami of the thoracic and abdominal spinal nerves to provide analgesia for multiple types of surgical procedures including pyeloplasty. Potential benefits of ESP blocks are improved post-operative analgesia, a reduction in the amount of post-operative opiates required, and decreased post-op nausea and vomiting.
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