Research
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Funding
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About Our Research
Anesthesiology has been undergoing major changes globally, expanding roles beyond the operating room in offering high quality personalized services in peri-operative health, pain management, critical care and other medical disciplines. Research has been a major factor underlining these changes and will continue to be an essential force driving the evolution of the specialty.
Stanford Anesthesia research includes a wide spectrum of programs in basic, translational, clinical, health service, and medical education areas. Project fields range from subcellular mechanisms of anesthesia, pain, and opioid addiction, tissue/organ injury, novel anesthesia agents, techniques and devices, treatment effectiveness, epidemiology, patient safety, health economics and other areas. Interdisciplinary collaborations are increasingly a feature. Our department has been among the top five NIH funded anesthesia departments since 2011, with current external research grants and contracts totaling $17 million annually.
Stanford Anesthesia pays special attention to research training for the next generation of anesthesiologists and has established a research-training continuum bridging between medical student and faculty stages. We place special emphasis on supporting the residency-fellowship-junior faculty period. A key part of this support is the Fellowship in Anesthesia Research and Medicine (FARM) program and our two NIH supported T32 training grants.
In the Press
– ScopeA blood test to predict surgical complications?
Researchers create a blood test to predict a patient's risk for surgical site complications, such as infection.
– ScopeTracking the progression of liver disease in a dish
Stanford Medicine researchers are creating models of livers in a dish -- organoids -- to better understand liver disease.
– News CenterBlood test predicts recovery after hip-replacement surgery, study finds
A simple blood test that analyzes immune function can forecast how quickly a person undergoing hip replacement surgery will recover.
– News CenterStanford researchers identify blood markers that indicate labor is approaching
About three weeks before delivery, a pregnant woman’s body shifts into a pre-labor phase characterized by changes in immune, hormonal and blood-clotting signals.
– ScopePredicting premature birth in low-resource settings
A blood test that predicts if a baby will be born prematurely works well for pregnant women in developing countries, a Stanford-led study found.
Research News
- The autonomic nervous system was shown to control pain after limb fracture by controlling immune responses. These results suggest new ways to reduce chronic pain after surgery and injuries. Link to article
- One in five children report chronic pain or migraine. However, a new international review, including Stanford’s Dr. Lauren Heathcote and Dr. Elliot Krane, found very a serious lack of evidence for drug treatments in children with pain.