Professor, Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, UCSF School of Medicine

Anesthesiology

Kenneth Drasner is an expert in the field of Anesthesiology. He went to University of California San Francisco School of Medicine. University of California San Francisco School of Medicine is a top medical college. University of California San Francisco School of Medicine is ranked 3/3 in Research/PrimaryCare. Doctor Kenneth Drasner, MD is a published doctor and has 56 publications published. The lastest was: 'Comparative toxicity of glucose and lidocaine administered intrathecally in the rat.'

Publications

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• Continuous spinal analgesia for labor and delivery: a born-again technique?
• Spinal anaesthesia: a century of refinement, and failure is still an option.
• ASRA practice advisory on local anesthetic systemic toxicity.
• Local anesthetic systemic toxicity: a historical perspective.
• Safety of high volume lipid emulsion infusion: a first approximation of LD50 in rats.
• Safety of ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia.
• Anesthetic effects on the developing nervous system: if you aren't concerned, you haven't been paying attention.
• Serum verapamil concentrations before and after Intralipid® therapy during treatment of an overdose.
• Partition constant and volume of distribution as predictors of clinical efficacy of lipid rescue for toxicological emergencies.
• A Mixed (Long- and Medium-chain) Triglyceride Lipid Emulsion Extracts Local Anesthetic from Human Serum In Vitro More Effectively than a Long-chain Emulsion.
• The antiproliferative effects of interferon on murine embryonic cells.
• Postoperative pain.
• A comparison of visual outcome in open-globe repair: succinylcholine with D-tubocurarine vs nondepolarizing agents.
• Cauda equina syndrome following intended epidural anesthesia.
• Intrathecal morphine for postoperative analgesia in children after selective dorsal rhizotomy.
• Repeat injection after a "failed spinal": at times, a potentially unsafe practice.
• Use of intrathecally administered morphine in the treatment of postoperative pain after lumbar spinal surgery: a prospective, double-blind, placebo-controlled study.
• Lumbar intrathecal morphine alters activity of putative nociceptive modulatory neurons in rostral ventromedial medulla.
• Distribution of catheter-injected local anesthetic in a model of the subarachnoid space.
• Cauda equina syndrome after continuous spinal anesthesia.
• Hypotension during transfusion of autologous blood.
• Preoperative laboratory testing of children undergoing elective surgery.
• Is chronic ethanol consumption associated with tolerance to intrathecal lidocaine in the rat?
• Opioid peptides (DAGO-enkephalin, dynorphin A(1-13), BAM 22P) microinjected into the rat brainstem: comparison of their antinociceptive effect and their effect on neur...
• Intrathecal morphine reduces the minimum alveolar concentration of halothane in humans.
• Synergy between the antinociceptive effects of intrathecal clonidine and systemic morphine in the rat.
• Local anesthetic test dose as a predictor of effective epidural opioid analgesia.
• Local anesthetic neurotoxicity does not result from blockade of voltage-gated sodium channels.
• The addition of 7.5% glucose does not alter the neurotoxicity of 5% lidocaine administered intrathecally in the rat.
• Effects of perioperative dexmedetomidine infusion in patients undergoing vascular surgery. The Study of Perioperative Ischemia Research Group.
• In vitro modeling of spinal anesthesia. A digital video image processing technique and its application to catheter characterization.
• Persistent sacral sensory deficit induced by intrathecal local anesthetic infusion in the rat.
• Models for local anesthetic toxicity from continuous spinal anesthesia.
• [Neurologic sequelae of spinal anesthesia: local anesthetic toxicity].
• Spontaneous intracranial hypotension: a series.
• A similar incidence of transient neurologic symptoms after spinal anesthesia with 2% and 5% lidocaine.
• Intrathecal catheterization in the rat. Improved technique for morphologic analysis of drug-induced injury.
• Drawing conclusions from Pollock et al.: limitations imposed study design.
• Lidocaine spinal anesthesia: a vanishing therapeutic index?
• The addition of phenylephrine contributes to the development of transient neurologic symptoms after spinal anesthesia with 0.5% tetracaine.
• Transient neurologic symptoms after spinal anesthesia: a lower incidence with prilocaine and bupivacaine than with lidocaine.
• A comparative study of low-dose hyperbaric spinal lidocaine 0.5% versus 5% for continuous spinal anesthesia.
• Lidocaine toxicity in primary afferent neurons from the rat.
• Transient neurologic symptoms after spinal anesthesia: an epidemiologic study of 1,863 patients.
• Comparative toxicity of glucose and lidocaine administered intrathecally in the rat.
• Low concentrations of halothane increase response to a noxious thermal stimulus and attenuate the antinociceptive effect of intraventricular but not intrathecal morphine.
• Epinephrine increases the neurotoxic potential of intrathecally administered lidocaine in the rat.
• A patient dissatisfied with her care.
• Comparative spinal neurotoxicity of prilocaine and lidocaine.
• Local anesthetic neurotoxicity: clinical injury and strategies that may minimize risk.
• Sodium bisulfite: scapegoat for chloroprocaine neurotoxicity?
• Thoracic epidural anesthesia: asleep at the wheal?
• Transient radicular pain following spinal anesthesia: review of the literature and report of a case involving 2% lidocaine.
• Chloroprocaine spinal anesthesia: back to the future?
• Toxicity of spinal local anaesthetics.

Schools

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• University Of California San Francisco School Of Medicine

• Chldns Hospital Med Center

• Children39s Hospital Boston

• University Calif San Francisco

Doctors Specialties

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• Pain Medicine
• Anesthesiology

Accepted Insurances

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Education

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• UCSF
• Stanford University
• Boston Children's Hospital
• University of California San Francisco School of Medicine

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