The Department of Anesthesiology University of Colorado.

Cardiovascular

• Neurodevelopmental outcomes of neonatal congenital heart disease patients: use of serial proton magnetic spectroscopy (IARS grant PI: Faberowski)
• Aprotinin for open-heart surgery in neonates (Collaboration study with Stanford)
• Exhaled nitric oxide is a marker of the systemic inflammatory response syndrome in children undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass.

Pharmacology

• Does total intravenous anesthesia with propofol for greater than 4 hours produce occult biochemical evidence of the propofol infusion syndrome?
• Independent and collaborative pharmacokinetic studies examining multiple anesthetic and pain drugs.
• State-of-the-art mass spectrometry facility for drug analysis is based in the parent department.

Outcomes Research

• Multicenter study of use and complications in pediatric regional anesthesia.
• The effect of anesthetics on the developing brain. Is it a function of age? (FAER grant PI: Faberowski)
• BIS-guided sedation in the CICU
• National Scientist Development Grant: The effect of oxygen and anesthesia on the developing cyanotic rat brain (AHA grant PI: Faberowski)
• Multi-center study on the incidence of intra-operative awareness and recall in the pediatric population undergoing general anesthesia: CARE study. (ASPECT funded)