Brendan Carvalho

Clinical Focus

• Anesthesia
• Anesthesia, Obstetrical
• Anesthesia, Regional

Professional Education

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Current Research Interests

I am primarily interested in clinical and translational research covering various aspects related to cesarean anesthesia and labor analgesia. My current area of research focus is post-cesarean pain, predicting pain, pregnancy-induced changes in pain perception, long-acting neuraxial opioids, and patient-controlled epidural labor analgesia. In addition, I have done research on patient perception of cesarean anesthesia risk, determination of effective local anesthetic dosing for intrathecal cesarean anesthesia and peripartum experimental pain thresholds and tolerances. My main research interest lies in developing novel ways of improving post-cesarean and peripartum labor pain. I hope to understand pregnancy-induced changes in pain perception and the mechanism behind post-operative pain. In the future, I hope we will be able to identify patients at risk and prevent the development persistent post-cesarean pain.

Clinical Trials

• A study comparing two spinal techniques for for cesarean delivery anesthesia Recruiting
• Effects of Breast Feeding on Post-Cesarean and Post-Vaginal Delivery Pain. Recruiting
• Influence of Patient Choice of Morphine on Post-Cesarean Pain. Recruiting
• Prediction of Post-Cesarean Section Pain Recruiting
• Pain Study of Rectus Muscle Closure at Cesarean Delivery Recruiting

Publications

• Continuous spinal anesthesia for Cesarean hysterectomy and massive hemorrhage in a parturient with placenta increta. Sultan P, Hilton G, Butwick A, Carvalho B. Can J Anaesth. 2012
• Intrathecal fentanyl added to bupivacaine and morphine for cesarean delivery may induce a subtle acute opioid tolerance. Carvalho B, Drover DR, Ginosar Y, Cohen SE, Riley ET. Int J Obstet Anesth. 2012; 21 (1): 29-34
• Non-invasive haemoglobin measurement in patients undergoing elective Caesarean section. Butwick A, Hilton G, Carvalho B. Br J Anaesth. 2012; 108 (2): 271-7
• Spinal anaesthesia for caesarean delivery in a parturient with babesiosis and Lyme disease. Sultan P, Green C, Riley E, Carvalho B. Anaesthesia. 2012; 67 (2): 180-3
• Epidural catheter removal in patients on warfarin thromboprophylaxis: a more cautious interpretation of results required? Carvalho B, Mariano ER, Butwick AJ. Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2011 Nov-Dec; 36 (6): 632; author reply 632-3