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Overview

Albert Dahan is affiliated with Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Medicine, with specialized work in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Surgery, Pharmacology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Physiology.

The scientist's work explores several topics, including:

  • Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
  • Anesthesia and Sedative Agents
  • Anesthesia and Pain Management
  • Pain Management and Opioid Use
  • Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
  • Treatment of Major Depression
  • Pain Mechanisms and Treatments

Albert Dahan has contributed to multiple recent papers, some of which include:

  • Prediction of Opioid-Induced Respiratory Depression on Inpatient Wards Using Continuous Capnography and Oximetry: An International Prospective, Observational Trial, 2020, published in Anesthesia & Analgesia
  • Reduced postoperative pain using Nociception Level-guided fentanyl dosing during sevoflurane anaesthesia: a randomised controlled trial, 2020, published in British Journal of Anaesthesia
  • Pharmacokinetics of ketamine and its major metabolites norketamine, hydroxynorketamine, and dehydronorketamine: a model-based analysis, 2020, published in British Journal of Anaesthesia
  • Benefit and Risk Evaluation of Biased μ-Receptor Agonist Oliceridine versus Morphine, 2020, published in Anesthesiology
  • Neuropathic Pain: Challenges and Opportunities, 2020, published in Frontiers in Pain Research

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Dahan include:

  • Monique van Velzen
  • Marieke Niesters
  • Erik Olofsen
  • Rutger van der Schrier
  • Elise Sarton

The scientist's work appears in multiple academic venues with notable frequency, including:

  • Anesthesiology
  • British Journal of Anaesthesia
  • Frontiers in Pain Research
  • http://isrctn.com/
  • Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics

Best Publications

  • Opioids and the management of chronic severe pain in the elderly: Consensus statement of an international expert panel with focus on the six clinically most often used world health organization step III opioids (Buprenorphine, Fentanyl, Hydromorphone, Methadone, Morphine, Oxycodone)

    Joseph Pergolizzi;Rainer H. Böger;Keith Budd;Albert Dahan

  • Incidence, Reversal, and Prevention of Opioid-induced Respiratory Depression.

    Albert Dahan;Leon Aarts;Terry W. Smith

  • Assessment and manifestation of central sensitisation across different chronic pain conditions.

    L Arendt-Nielsen;B Morlion;S Perrot;A Dahan

  • Ketamine produces effective and long-term pain relief in patients with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Type 1.

    Marnix J. Sigtermans;Jacobus J. van Hilten;Martin C.R. Bauer;M. Sesmu Arbous

  • Ketamine for chronic pain: risks and benefits

    Marieke Niesters;Christian Martini;Albert Dahan

  • Sex differences in morphine analgesia: an experimental study in healthy volunteers.

    Elise Sarton;Erik Olofsen;Raymonda Romberg;Jan den Hartigh

  • Permutation entropy of the electroencephalogram: a measure of anaesthetic drug effect

    E Olofsen;James Sleigh;A Dahan

  • Buprenorphine induces ceiling in respiratory depression but not in analgesia

    A. Dahan;A. Yassen;R. Romberg;E. Sarton

  • The Ventilatory Response to Hypoxia in Mammals: Mechanisms, Measurement, and Analysis

    Luc J. Teppema;Albert Dahan

  • Assessment of middle cerebral artery diameter during hypocapnia and hypercapnia in humans using ultra-high-field MRI

    Jasper Verbree;Anne-Sophie G. T. Bronzwaer;Eidrees Ghariq;Maarten J. Versluis

  • Current knowledge of buprenorphine and its unique pharmacological profile.

    Joseph Pergolizzi;Anna Maria Aloisi;Albert Dahan;Joerg Filitz

  • Expression of c-fos in the rat brainstem after exposure to hypoxia and to normoxic and hyperoxic hypercapnia

    Luc J. Teppema;Jan G. Veening;Andor Kranenburg;Albert Dahan

  • Comparison of the respiratory effects of intravenous buprenorphine and fentanyl in humans and rats

    A Dahan;A Yassen;H Bijl;R Romberg

  • Evaluation of surgical conditions during laparoscopic surgery in patients with moderate vs deep neuromuscular block

    C.H. Martini;M. Boon;R.F. Bevers;L.P. Aarts

  • Melanocortin-1 receptor gene variants affect pain and mu-opioid analgesia in mice and humans.

    Jeffrey S. Mogil;J. Ritchie;S. B. Smith;K. Strasburg

  • Response surface modeling of remifentanil-propofol interaction on cardiorespiratory control and bispectral index.

    Diederik J.F. Nieuwenhuijs;Erik Olofsen;Raymonda R. Romberg;Elise Sarton

  • Do sex differences exist in opioid analgesia? A systematic review and meta-analysis of human experimental and clinical studies

    Marieke Niesters;Albert Dahan;Benjamin Kest;Benjamin Kest;James Zacny

  • Gender differences in opioid-mediated analgesia: animal and human studies.

    Benjamin Kest;Elise Sarton;Albert Dahan

  • Mice lacking multidrug resistance protein 3 show altered morphine pharmacokinetics and morphine-6-glucuronide antinociception

    Noam Zelcer;Koen van de Wetering;Michel Hillebrand;Elise Sarton

  • Differences between opioids: pharmacological, experimental, clinical and economical perspectives

    Asbjørn M. Drewes;Asbjørn M. Drewes;Rasmus D. Jensen;Lecia M. Nielsen;Joanne Droney

Frequent Co-Authors

Asbjørn Mohr Drewes
Asbjørn Mohr Drewes Aalborg University
Serge A.R.B. Rombouts
Serge A.R.B. Rombouts Leiden University
Michael Brines
Michael Brines Kenneth S. Warren Institute
Meindert Danhof
Meindert Danhof Leiden University
Dick Tibboel
Dick Tibboel Erasmus University Rotterdam
Paola Sacerdote
Paola Sacerdote University of Milan
Rayaz A. Malik
Rayaz A. Malik Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar
Michel Struys
Michel Struys University Medical Center Groningen
Christian F. Beckmann
Christian F. Beckmann Radboud University
Ilya M. Veer
Ilya M. Veer Charité - University Medicine Berlin

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