Eleanor Reimer

FRCPC, MD

Investigator and Pediatric Anesthesiologist, BC Children's Hospital

My primary research interest is safety in anesthesia delivery. This has a very wide scope but my most recent projects focus this interest. A growing area of anesthesia practise is care of children during diagnostic procedures. These procedures may be painful or only require the child to be still. Investigating the safe administration of propofol, a primary anesthetic agent, will provide guidelines for other acute care physicians to use it in their practise.

My other project is the first examination of how well we prepare our families to care for children at home after surgery. We are starting by designing a questionnaire for evaluation. This will hopefully follow with appropriate interventions to increase safe transition of care.