Associate Professor, Anesthesiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Anesthesiology

Tetsuro Sakai, MD practices Anesthesiology. He received awards:"Elected Member", "Nominee, the Teacher of the Year Award", "Resident Teaching Award (Mentoring Resident Scholarly Activity)", "Chairmans Recognition for Teaching Contributions", "The Best Curriculum Poster", "Travel Award", "A Poster of Distinction (Top 10%): Anesthesia/Critical Care Medicine", "Resident Teaching Award, Hepatic Transplantation Anesthesia", "Oral Abstract Presentation: Anesthesia/Critical Care Medicine", "Best in Section, Economics, Education & Patient Safety: Improving Patient Outcomes", "First Place, Original Research", "Second Place, Original Research", "Second Place, Case Report", "Nominee, Little Apple Award", "Doctoral Fellowship Award (awarded, but declined due to clinical training of anesthesiology)" and "Finalist, The C. Walton Lillehei Residents Award". Tetsuro Sakai is a published doctor and has 36 publications published. The lastest was: 'Low-Fidelity Haptic Simulation Versus Mental Imagery Training for Epidural Anesthesia Technical Achievement in Novice Anesthesiology Residents: A Randomized Comparativ...'

Publications

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• Incidence, outcome, and risk factors for postoperative pulmonary complications in head and neck cancer surgery patients with free flap reconstructions.
• Acute kidney injury following orthotopic liver transplantation: incidence, risk factors, and effects on patient and graft outcomes.
• Clinical Applicability of Rapid Thrombelastography and Functional Fibrinogen Thrombelastography in Adult Liver Transplantation.
• Isolated small bowel transplantation outcomes and the impact of immunosuppressants: Experience of a single transplant center.
• Facilitation of Resident Scholarly Activity: Strategy and Outcome Analyses Using Historical Resident Cohorts and a Rank-to-Match Population.
• The Cost of Resident Scholarly Activity and Its Effect on Resident Clinical Experience.
• Scholarly activity points: a new tool to evaluate resident scholarly productivity.
• Complications related to invasive hemodynamic monitors during adult liver transplantation.
• Use of a problem-based learning discussion format to teach anesthesiology residents research fundamentals.
• Integration of academic and clinical performance-based faculty compensation plans: a system and its impact on an anaesthesiology department.
• Impact of a productivity-based compensation system on faculty clinical teaching scores, as evaluated by anesthesiology residents.
• The use of ex vivo gene transfer based on muscle-derived stem cells for cardiovascular medicine.
• Differential myocardial infarct repair with muscle stem cells compared to myoblasts.
• The incidence and outcome of perioperative pulmonary aspiration in a university hospital: a 4-year retrospective analysis.
• Prevention of intracardiac/pulmonary thrombosis during liver transplantation.
• In vivo evaluation of a porous, elastic, biodegradable patch for reconstructive cardiac procedures.
• Complications associated with percutaneous placement of venous return cannula for venovenous bypass in adult orthotopic liver transplantation.
• The impact of postreperfusion syndrome on short-term patient and liver allograft outcome in patients undergoing orthotopic liver transplantation.
• Retropharyngeal dissection during nasotracheal intubation: a rare complication and its management.
• Initial experience using continuous intravenous treprostinil to manage pulmonary arterial hypertension in patients with end-stage liver disease.
• Rapid response system.
• Fatal pulmonary embolism during liver transplantation in a patient with fulminant hepatic failure: a diagnostic challenge of the "flat-line" thromboelastogram.
• Insertion and management of percutaneous veno-venous bypass cannula for liver transplantation: a reference for transplant anesthesiologists.
• Isolated left-sided pulmonary edema caused by alemtuzumab (Campath) during kidney transplantation.
• Comparison of surgical methods in liver transplantation: retrohepatic caval resection with venovenous bypass (VVB) versus piggyback (PB) with VVB versus PB without VVB.
• Portopulmonary hypertension as an indication for combined heart, lung, and liver or lung and liver transplantation: literature review and case presentation.
• The diagnostic challenge of a tracheal tear with a double-lumen endobronchial tube: massive air leak developing from the mouth during mechanical ventilation.
• Perioperative pulmonary aspiration of patients who have had an esophagectomy with a gastric pull-up: the value of preoperative computed tomography of the neck.
• Accidental insertion of a percutaneous venovenous cannula into the persistent left superior vena cava of a patient undergoing liver transplantation.
• The role of ultrasonography in determining central venous patency in patients undergoing bowel transplantation.
• High mortality associated with intracardiac and intrapulmonary thromboses after cardiopulmonary bypass.
• Comparison between thrombelastography and thromboelastometry in hyperfibrinolysis detection during adult liver transplantation.
• Ex vivo evaluation of 4 different viscoelastic assays for detecting moderate to severe coagulopathy during liver transplantation.
• Low-Fidelity Haptic Simulation Versus Mental Imagery Training for Epidural Anesthesia Technical Achievement in Novice Anesthesiology Residents: A Randomized Comparativ...

Doctors Specialties

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• Anesthesiology

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• Elected Member
• Nominee, the Teacher of the Year Award
• Resident Teaching Award (Mentoring Resident Scholarly Activity)
• Chairman’s Recognition for Teaching Contributions
• The Best Curriculum Poster
• Travel Award
• A Poster of Distinction (Top 10%): Anesthesia/Critical Care Medicine
• Resident Teaching Award, Hepatic Transplantation Anesthesia
• Oral Abstract Presentation: Anesthesia/Critical Care Medicine
• Best in Section, Economics, Education & Patient Safety: Improving Patient Outcomes
• First Place, Original Research
• Second Place, Original Research
• Second Place, Case Report
• Nominee, Little Apple Award
• Doctoral Fellowship Award (awarded, but declined due to clinical training of anesthesiology)
• Finalist, The C. Walton Lillehei Residents’ Award

Education

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• University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
• Faculty of Medicine Kyoto University

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Medicare Facts

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National Provider Identifier [NPI]	1467427831
Last Name Of The Provider	SAKAI
First Name Of The Provider	TETSURO
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