
PARC Executive Sponsor
Professor and Chair
Anesthesia and Perioperative Care
+1 415 476-9035
Dr. Gropper, Chair of the UCSF Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, is the executive sponsor for the PARC initiative. The PARC has also formed an advisory board that brings together faculty leaders from across the university with expertise in pain management, drug development, addiction medicine, and behavioral science to discover new and innovative methods for reducing pain.
Publications
Global Survey of Anesthesia Breathing Circuit Reuse: A Neglected Opportunity for U.S. Health Care to Reduce Climate Impact.
Anesthesiology
CRISPR: fundamental principles and implications for anaesthesia.
British journal of anaesthesia
A Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator-Derived Predictive Model for Postoperative Respiratory Failure in a Heterogeneous Adult Elective Surgery Patient Population.
CHEST critical care
Quality of Life Improvement: A Novel Framework and Approach to Well-Being.
Anesthesiology clinics
Dexmedetomidine or Propofol for Sedation in Mechanically Ventilated Adults with Sepsis.
The New England journal of medicine
Risk Factors Associated With Early Postoperative Respiratory Failure: A Matched Case-Control Study.
The Journal of surgical research
Consensus-based perioperative protocols during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Journal of neurosurgery. Spine
Postoperative respiratory failure: An update on the validity of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Patient Safety Indicator 11 in an era of clinical documentation improvement programs.
American journal of surgery
Developing a Comprehensive Model of Intensive Care Unit Processes: Concept of Operations.
Journal of patient safety
Intensive care unit providers more quickly and accurately assess risk of multiple harms using an engineered safety display.
Health informatics journal
Interprofessional Care and Teamwork in the ICU.
Critical care medicine
Dr Ted Eger Obituary.
Anesthesia and analgesia
Preventing Harm in the ICU-Building a Culture of Safety and Engaging Patients and Families.
Critical care medicine
Differentiating pulmonary transfusion reactions using recipient and transfusion factors.
Transfusion
Why Physician Leaders of Health Care Organizations Should Participate in Direct Patient Care.
Annals of internal medicine
An Ethnographic Study of Health Information Technology Use in Three Intensive Care Units.
Health services research
Why Physician Leaders of Health Care Organizations Should Participate in Direct Patient Care.
Annals of internal medicine
A Typology of ICU Patients and Families from the Clinician Perspective: Toward Improving Communication.
Health communication
The Feasibility and Utility of Continuous Sleep Monitoring in Critically Ill Patients Using a Portable Electroencephalography Monitor.
Anesthesia and analgesia
Predicting mortality in the intensive care unit: a comparison of the University Health Consortium expected probability of mortality and the Mortality Prediction Model III.
Journal of intensive care
IV Immunoglobulin: A Useful Tool for the Severe Pneumonia Toolbox?
Critical care medicine
Intensive Care Unit-acquired Muscle Weakness: An Ounce of Prevention Is Worth a Pound of Cure.
Anesthesiology
Interprofessional rhetoric and operational realities: an ethnographic study of rounds in four intensive care units.
Advances in health sciences education : theory and practice
A Clinical Trial to Detect Subclinical Transfusion-induced Lung Injury during Surgery.
Anesthesiology
An analysis of near misses identified by anesthesia providers in the intensive care unit.
BMC anesthesiology
Preoperative medical testing in Medicare patients undergoing cataract surgery.
The New England journal of medicine
Recipient clinical risk factors predominate in possible transfusion-related acute lung injury.
Transfusion
Prospective study on the clinical course and outcomes in transfusion-related acute lung injury*.
Critical care medicine
Delivering interprofessional care in intensive care: a scoping review of ethnographic studies.
American journal of critical care : an official publication, American Association of Critical-Care Nurses
Say no to old blood*.
Critical care medicine
Applying ethnography to the study of context in healthcare quality and safety.
BMJ quality & safety
ICU early mobilization: from recommendation to implementation at three medical centers.
Critical care medicine
Interprofessional care in intensive care settings and the factors that impact it: results from a scoping review of ethnographic studies.
Journal of critical care
Exploring the nature of interprofessional collaboration and family member involvement in an intensive care context.
Journal of interprofessional care
Risk factors and outcomes in transfusion-associated circulatory overload.
The American journal of medicine
Challenge of assessing symptoms in seriously ill intensive care unit patients: can proxy reporters help?
Critical care medicine
Central venous catheters: follow the evidence, not the guidelines.
Critical care medicine
Organ donation after cardiac death in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Annals of neurology
Fresh and stored red blood cell transfusion equivalently induce subclinical pulmonary gas exchange deficit in normal humans.
Anesthesia and analgesia
Reducing noninfectious risks of blood transfusion.
Anesthesiology
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future-Niels Bohr.
Critical care medicine
Critical care issues in patients after liver transplantation.
Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society
Symptoms experienced by intensive care unit patients at high risk of dying.
Critical care medicine
Special article: rescue therapies for acute hypoxemic respiratory failure.
Anesthesia and analgesia
Can we predict pulmonary complications after thoracic surgery?
Anesthesia and analgesia
Ventilator-associated pneumonia in a neurologic intensive care unit does not lead to increased mortality.
Neurocritical care
Looking forward, looking back: assessing variations in hospital resource use and outcomes for elderly patients with heart failure.
Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes
Critical care checklists, the Keystone Project, and the Office for Human Research Protections: a case for streamlining the approval process in quality-improvement research.
Critical care medicine
Noisy mechanical ventilation: listen to the melody.
Anesthesiology
Perioperative glycemic control: an evidence-based review.
Anesthesiology
Postoperative infectious complications of abdominal solid organ transplantation.
Journal of intensive care medicine
Laboratory testing guidelines in the intensive care unit: less red and more green.
Critical care medicine
Strategies for success: A PDSA analysis of three QI initiatives in critical care.
Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety
The curse of the drinking class.
Critical care medicine
Tracheostomy protocol compliance: herding cats?
Critical care medicine
The epithelium in acute lung injury/acute respiratory distress syndrome.
Current opinion in critical care
Multisystem organ failure: predicting the future.
Anesthesiology
Critical care challenges in orthopedic surgery patients.
Critical care medicine
Pulmonary edema after transfusion: how to differentiate transfusion-associated circulatory overload from transfusion-related acute lung injury.
Critical care medicine
Recombinant factor VIIa reduces transfusion requirements in liver transplant patients with high MELD scores.
Transfusion medicine (Oxford, England)
Establishing a comprehensive, evidence-based protocol for the care of patients with sepsis.
Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
Impact of a series of interventions in vancomycin prescribing on use and prevalence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci.
Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety
Evidence-based management of critically ill patients: analysis and implementation.
Anesthesia and analgesia
Look before you leap: how do intensivists improve care for critically ill patients?
The American journal of medicine
Sepsis and hypothermia: call in the granulocytes?
Anesthesiology
Injury and repair in lung and airways.
Critical care medicine
Predicting mortality in acute respiratory distress syndrome: circulatory system knows best.
Critical care medicine
Postoperative analgesia and sedation in the adult intensive care unit: a guide to drug selection.
Drugs
The alveolar epithelium: suspect or innocent bystander?
Anesthesiology
Respiratory and Hemodynamic Management After Cardiac Surgery.
Current treatment options in cardiovascular medicine
A momentary pause...
British journal of anaesthesia
Protective effects of low tidal volume ventilation in a rabbit model of Pseudomonas aeruginosa-induced acute lung injury.
Critical care medicine
Additive inhibition of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors by corticosteroids and the neuromuscular blocking drug vecuronium.
Anesthesiology
Pathogenesis of septic shock in Pseudomonas aeruginosa pneumonia.
The Journal of clinical investigation
Active and passive immunization with the Pseudomonas V antigen protects against type III intoxication and lung injury.
Nature medicine
Evaluation of antimicrobial and lipopolysaccharide-neutralizing effects of a synthetic CAP18 fragment against Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a mouse model.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy
In vitro cellular toxicity predicts Pseudomonas aeruginosa virulence in lung infections.
Infection and immunity
IL-10 improves lung injury and survival in Pseudomonas aeruginosa pneumonia.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)
Quantitative analysis of aquaporin mRNA expression in rat tissues by RNase protection assay.
DNA and cell biology
Intraluminal water increases expression of plasmid DNA in rat lung.
Human gene therapy
Localization of MIWC and GLIP water channel homologs in neuromuscular, epithelial and glandular tissues.
Journal of cell science
Immunolocalization of the mercurial-insensitive water channel and glycerol intrinsic protein in epithelial cell plasma membranes.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Acute cardiogenic pulmonary edema.
Clinics in chest medicine
Pulmonary arterial and venous constriction during hypoxia in 3- to 5-wk-old and adult ferrets.
Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985)
The adult respiratory distress syndrome: definition and prognosis, pathogenesis and treatment.
British journal of anaesthesia
[Estimation of the filtration variables in the rat lung].
Nihon Kyobu Shikkan Gakkai zasshi
Lung expansion and the perialveolar interstitial pressure gradient.
Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985)
Relationship of pleural effusions to increased permeability pulmonary edema in anesthetized sheep.
The Journal of clinical investigation
Alveolar liquid and protein clearance from normal dog lungs.
Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985)
Filtration profile in isolated zone 1 and zone 3 dog lungs at constant high alveolar pressure.
Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985)
Lung microvascular pressure profile measured by micropuncture in anesthetized dogs.
Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985)
Direct measurement of blood pressure within the long hypophysial portal blood vessels.
Neuroendocrinology
Pleural liquid pressure in dogs measured using a rib capsule.
Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985)
Interstitial fluid pressure gradient measured by micropuncture in excised dog lung.
Journal of applied physiology: respiratory, environmental and exercise physiology
Micropuncture measurement of lung microvascular pressure profile during hypoxia in cats.
Circulation research
Effect of lung inflation on alveolar-airway barrier protein permeability in dog lung.
Journal of applied physiology: respiratory, environmental and exercise physiology