Benjamin Yates Andrew

Journal Article Paediatr Anaesth · December 2025 BACKGROUND: Intraoperative hemodynamic management goals in pediatric patients vary significantly with age. Physiologic variability and the absence of a widely accepted definition of intraoperative hypotension contribute to inconsistent treatment thresholds ... Full text Link to item Cite

National practice patterns for the use of regional anesthesia for pediatric cardiac surgery: An analysis of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons congenital heart surgery database.

Journal Article J Clin Anesth · March 2025 BACKGROUND: Complications associated with suboptimal pain management after pediatric cardiac surgery have increased interest in regional anesthesia (RA). We sought to evaluate national trends and explore the association of RA with postoperative outcomes fo ... Full text Link to item Cite

Factors associated with the use of regional anesthesia for calcaneal osteotomy in pediatric patients: A single-center, retrospective cohort study.

Journal Article Paediatr Anaesth · February 2025 BACKGROUND: Despite known disparities in pediatric perioperative outcomes, few studies have examined factors associated with the use of regional anesthesia for pediatric orthopedic surgery. AIMS: This investigation aimed to determine if minority and develo ... Full text Link to item Cite

In Response.

Journal Article Anesth Analg · December 1, 2024 Full text Link to item Cite

The Association of Guideline-Directed Prophylaxis With Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting in Adult Patients: A Single-Center, Retrospective Cohort Study.

Journal Article Anesth Analg · November 1, 2024 BACKGROUND: Consensus guidelines for postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) prophylaxis recommend a risk-based approach in which the number of antiemetics administered is based on a preoperative estimate of PONV risk. These guidelines have been adapted b ... Full text Link to item Cite

The Association of Guideline-Directed Prophylaxis with Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting in Pediatric Patients: A Single-Center, Retrospective Cohort Study.

Journal Article Anesth Analg · July 1, 2024 BACKGROUND: Guidelines for postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) prophylaxis in pediatric patients recommend escalation of the number of antiemetics based on a preoperative estimate of PONV risk. These recommendations have been translated into performan ... Full text Link to item Cite

Propensity score methods in observational research: brief review and guide for authors.

Journal Article Br J Anaesth · November 2023 Causal inference in observational research requires a careful approach to adjustment for confounding. One such approach is the use of propensity score analyses. In this editorial, we focus on the role of propensity score-based methods in estimating causal ... Full text Link to item Cite

Book Review

Journal Article British Journal of Anaesthesia · August 2023 Full text Cite

Identification of Trajectory-Based Acute Kidney Injury Phenotypes Among Cardiac Surgery Patients.

Journal Article Ann Thorac Surg · December 2022 BACKGROUND: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common and serious complication of cardiac surgical procedures for which unrecognized heterogeneity may underpin poor success in identifying effective therapies. We aimed to identify phenotypically similar groups ... Full text Link to item Cite

Analgesic Effects of a Novel Combination of Regional Anesthesia After Pediatric Cardiac Surgery: A Retrospective Cohort Study.

Journal Article J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth · November 2022 OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to determine whether the use of regional anesthesia in children undergoing congenital heart surgery was associated with differences in outcomes when compared to surgeon-delivered local anesthetic wound infiltratio ... Full text Link to item Cite

Short-term mortality of patients ≥80 years old admitted to European intensive care units: an international observational study.

Journal Article Br J Anaesth · July 2022 BACKGROUND: Limited evidence suggests variation in mortality of older critically ill adults across Europe. We aimed to investigate regional differences in mortality among very old ICU patients. METHODS: Multilevel analysis of two international prospective ... Full text Link to item Cite

Renal-Resistive Index for Prediction of Acute Kidney Injury in the Setting of Aortic Insufficiency.

Journal Article J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth · December 2021 Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common postoperative complication after cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB), and leads to significant morbidity, mortality, and cost. Although early recognition and management of AKI may reduce the burden of ren ... Full text Link to item Cite

Preservation of Renal Function

Chapter · January 1, 2021 Acute kidney injury (AKI) remains a frequent and serious complication of surgical procedures and critical illness that is consistently associated with worse outcomes and increased long-term morbidity and mortality. Much work has gone into finding kidney pr ... Full text Cite

Resection of the irradiated esophagus: the impact of lymph node yield on survival.

Journal Article Dis Esophagus · October 12, 2020 There is debate surrounding the appropriate threshold for lymph node harvest during esophagectomy in patients with esophageal cancer, specifically for those receiving preoperative radiation. The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of lymph no ... Full text Link to item Cite

Intraoperative renal resistive index threshold as an acute kidney injury biomarker.

Journal Article J Clin Anesth · May 2020 STUDY OBJECTIVE: The lag in creatinine-mediated diagnosis of cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury (AKI) may be impeding the development of renoprotection therapies. Postoperative renal resistive index (RRI) measured by transabdominal Doppler ultr ... Full text Link to item Cite

Renal Failure and Dialysis

Chapter · January 1, 2020 Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common and serious complication of cardiac surgery. The spectrum of cardiac surgery-associated AKI (CS-AKI) ranges from transient loss of renal reserve, through AKI, to long-term irreversible renal failure requiring renal rep ... Full text Cite

Five Issues With the Cardiovascular Risk Index.

Journal Article J Am Coll Cardiol · November 5, 2019 Full text Link to item Cite

Intraoperative Renal Resistive Index as an Acute Kidney Injury Biomarker: Development and Validation of an Automated Analysis Algorithm.

Journal Article J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth · October 2018 OBJECTIVE: Intraoperative Doppler-determined renal resistive index (RRI) is a promising early acute kidney injury (AKI) biomarker. As RRI continues to be studied, its clinical usefulness and robustness in research settings will be linked to the ease, effic ... Full text Link to item Cite

The Association of Aortic Valve Pathology With Renal Resistive Index as a Kidney Injury Biomarker.

Journal Article Ann Thorac Surg · July 2018 BACKGROUND: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common serious complication after cardiac surgery. Doppler-determined renal resistive index (RRI) is a promising early AKI biomarker in this population. However, the relationship between aortic valve pathology (in ... Full text Link to item Cite

mStroke: "Mobile Stroke"-Improving Acute Stroke Care with Smartphone Technology.

Journal Article J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis · July 2017 OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to evaluate the effect of method and time of system activation on clinical metrics in cases utilizing the Stop Stroke (Pulsara, Inc.) mobile acute stroke care coordination application. METHODS: A retrospective cohort analysis of ... Full text Link to item Cite

Validation of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition Recommendations for Caloric Provision to Critically Ill Obese Patients: A Pilot Study.

Journal Article JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr · July 2016 BACKGROUND: The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN) recommend that obese, critically ill patients receive 11-14 kcal/kg/d using actual body weight (ABW) or 22-25 kcal/kg/d using ideal b ... Full text Link to item Cite

Choline inadequacy impairs trophoblast function and vascularization in cultured human placental trophoblasts.

Journal Article J Cell Physiol · August 2014 Maternal choline intake during gestation may influence placental function and fetal health outcomes. Specifically, we previously showed that supplemental choline reduced placental and maternal circulating concentrations of the anti-angiogenic factor, fms-l ... Full text Link to item Cite

Intraoperative renal resistive index with adjustment for aortic insufficiency for acute kidney injury prediction in cardiac surgery patients

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