R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center

Clinical Services

Trauma Anesthesiology

The mission of the Section of Trauma Anesthesiology is the resuscitation and perioperative care, including pain management, of every patient at the Shock Trauma Center; the hands-on instruction of paramedics, nurses, medical students, residents, and fellows; and the discovery and promulgation of new and better ways of caring for injured patients.

The Section of Trauma Anesthesiology includes 12 attending anesthesiologists and 20 CRNAs, performing more than 6,000 anesthetics each year. The Section of Trauma Anesthesiology is the only group of anesthesiologists in the country with a practice focused specifically on traumatic injury, and offers the only Fellowship in Trauma Anesthesia. The Section trains 25 anesthesia residents each year, rotating in one-month blocks from the University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins, and the three armed services.

An anesthesiologist is present at every patient’s admission to the Shock Trauma Center, to assess and manage the airway and facilitate early pain control. An Attending Anesthesiologist is available 24 hours a day for emergency airway management in the ICUs, for conscious sedation procedures, and for comprehensive perioperative care in the TRU, OR, and PACU.

Representatives of the Section also train and supervise the nurses of the Acute Pain Management Service, providing advanced pain management modalities for more than 1500 patients each year. Forty Emergency Medicine residents per year rotate through the Section to learn advanced airway and resuscitation skills, along with 50 student nurse anesthetists and the 50 flight paramedics of the Maryland State Police. Anesthesiologists from the Section teach every University of Maryland medical student, in a special “hands-on” airway management course in the third year, and again as they rotate through the STC during their anesthesia training.

Research endeavors of the Section of Trauma Anesthesiology include studies of airway management techniques and protocols, anesthetic drug selection, advanced resuscitation techniques for patients in hemorrhagic shock, early noninvasive monitoring of traumatic brain injury, and non-surgical approaches to hemostasis. In the intensive care units, members of the Section have recently presented and published work on advanced ventilator management, continuous renal replacement therapy, trans-esophageal echocardiography, and extra-corporeal circulation. The MDs and CRNAs of the Section are the acknowledged national experts on anesthesia for trauma care, are sought out for textbook chapters in the Anesthesia, Surgical, and Critical Care arenas, and serve as invited speakers at local, national, and international conferences on a regular basis.

Faculty

L. Yvette Fouche, M.D.
Chief of Trauma Anesthesiology
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Special Interests: Trauma Anesthesia
Medical Degree: University of Michigan
Residency: University of Maryland
Fellowship: University of Maryland Medical Center, Trauma Anesthesiology
Certification: Anesthesiology
410-328-3567 office

Richard P. Dutton, M.D., M.B.A.
Director of Trauma Anesthesiology
Professor of Anesthesiology
Special Interests: Thoracic and Vascular Anesthesia; Blood Substitute Research
Medical Degree: Tufts University
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital, Anesthesiology
Certification: Anesthesiology
410-328-2628 office

John W. Blenko, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Special Interests: Trauma Anesthesiology, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, Resident Education
Medical Degree: University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Residency: Mercy Hospital (Pittsburgh), Anesthesiology
Fellowship: Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pediatric Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
Certification: Anesthesiology
410-328-2628 office

Cynthia Bucci, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Special Interest: Blood substitute therapy
Medical Degree: University of Maryland School of Medicine
Residency: University of Maryland Medical Center
Fellowship: University of Maryland Medical Center, Trauma Anesthesiology
410-328-2628 office

Thomas Grissom, MD, FCCM
Director, AF Center for the Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills-Baltimore
Clinical Assistant Professor
Special Interests: Simulation, Anesthesia in Austere Conditions
Residency: Wilford Hall Medical Center, Lackland AFB, TX
Certification: Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine
410-328-2628 office

Mary L. Hyder, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Medical Degree: University of Texas - Southwestern Medical System, Anesthesiology
Fellowship: Shock Trauma Center/University of Maryland Hospital, Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology
Certification: Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine
410-328-2628 office

Omid G. Moayed, M.D., M.B.A.
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Medical Degree: American University of Caribbean
Residency: University of Illinois at Chicago Hospital, Anesthesiology
Fellowships: Massachusettes General Hospital, Critical Care Medicine
Certification: Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine
410-328-2359 office

Roger Shere-Wolfe, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Medical Degree: Harvard Medical School
Residency: University of Chicago Hospital, Anesthesia and Critical Care
Certification: Anesthesiology
410-328-2628 office

Sukhwant Sidhu, M.D.
Clinical Instructor of Anesthesiology
Special Interest: Trauma Anesthesiology
Medical Degree: J.L.N. Medical College Aligarh Muslim Univ
Residency: Baylor College of Medicine, Anesthesiology
410-328-2628 office

Robert A. Sikorski, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Division of Anesthesiology, Section of Trauma Echocardiography
Special Interest: Echocardiography; Cardio-thoracic Vascular Anesthesia; Pre-Hospital Trauma Care
Medical Degree: CETEC University School of Medicine
Residency: UMD - New Jersey Medical School
Fellowships: UMD - NJ Medical School, Combined Cardiac Anesthesiology/Pain Management
Certifications: Anesthesiology, Peri-operative Trans-esophageal Echocardiography
410-328-2628 office

This page was last updated on: July 2, 2009.

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