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Overview

Steven L. Shafer is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, with a particular focus on anesthesiology and pain medicine, as well as surgery, infectious diseases, public health, environmental and occupational health, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

Their research encompasses multiple topics, including:

  • Anesthesia and Sedative Agents
  • Anesthesia and Pain Management
  • Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders
  • Anesthesia and Neurotoxicity Research
  • Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Pain Management and Opioid Use

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Steven L. Shafer are:

  • "Further retractions of articles by Joachim Boldt" (2020), British Journal of Anaesthesia
  • "Rapidly scalable mechanical ventilator for the COVID-19 pandemic" (2020), Intensive Care Medicine
  • "Chronic disabling postpartum headache after unintentional dural puncture during epidural anaesthesia: a prospective cohort study" (2021), British Journal of Anaesthesia
  • "Design of Clinical Trials Evaluating Sedation in Critically Ill Adults Undergoing Mechanical Ventilation: Recommendations From Sedation Consortium on Endpoints and Procedures for Treatment, Education, and Research (SCEPTER) Recommendation III" (2021), Critical Care Medicine
  • "Ondansetron to reduce neonatal opioid withdrawal severity a randomized clinical trial" (2022), Journal of Perinatology

Frequent collaborators in Steven L. Shafer's work include:

  • Richard Simoneaux (31 publications together)
  • Dibash Kumar Das (12 publications together)
  • Pamela Flood (6 publications together)
  • Jessica Ansari (4 publications together)
  • Albert Kwon (2 publications together)

Their work has been published primarily in the following venues:

  • ASA Monitor (72 publications)
  • British Journal of Anaesthesia (5 publications)
  • Anesthesiology (4 publications)
  • Anesthesia & Analgesia (3 publications)
  • Intensive Care Medicine (1 publication)

Best Publications

  • Influence of age and gender on the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of remifentanil. I. Model development

    Charles F. Minto;Thomas W. Schnider;Talmage D. Egan;Elizabeth Youngs

  • The Influence of Method of Administration and Covariates on the Pharmacokinetics of Propofol in Adult Volunteers

    Thomas W. Schnider;Charles F. Minto;Pedro L. Gambus;Corina Andresen

  • The Influence of Age on Propofol Pharmacodynamics

    Thomas W. Schnider;Charles F. Minto;Steven L. Shafer;Pedro L. Gambus

  • Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Remifentanil: II. Model Application

    Charles F. Minto;Thomas W. Schnider;Steven L. Shafer

  • The pharmacokinetics of the new short-acting opioid remifentanil (GI87084B) in healthy adult male volunteers.

    Talmage D. Egan;Harry J. M. Lemmens;Pierre Fiset;David J. Hermann

  • Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics, and Rational Opioid Selection

    Steven L. Shafer;John R. Varvel

  • Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of propofol infusions during general anesthesia.

    Audrey Shafer;Van A. Doze;Steven L. Shafer;Paul F. White

  • Measuring the predictive performance of computer-controlled infusion pumps

    John R. Varvel;David L. Donoho;Steven L. Shafer

  • Remifentanil versus alfentanil: comparative pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics in healthy adult male volunteers.

    Talmage D. Egan;Charles F. Minto;David J. Hermann;Juliana Barr

  • Pharmacodynamic interaction between propofol and remifentanil regarding hypnosis, tolerance of laryngoscopy, bispectral index, and electroencephalographic approximate entropy.

    Thomas W. Bouillon;Jörgen Bruhn;Lucian Radulescu;Corina Andresen

  • Response surface model for anesthetic drug interactions.

    Charles F. Minto;Thomas W. Schnider;Timothy G. Short;Keith M. Gregg

  • Absorption characteristics of transdermally administered fentanyl.

    J. R. Varvel;S. L. Shafer;S. S. Hwang;P. A. Coen

  • The Pharmacokinetics of Propofol in Children Using Three Different Data Analysis Approaches

    Bideshwar K. Kataria;Sudha A. Ved;Honorato F. Nicodemus;Gregory R. Hoy

  • Comparison of plasma compartment versus two methods for effect compartment-controlled target-controlled infusion for propofol

    Michel Struys;T De Smet;B Depoorter;Linda Versichelen

  • The Pharmacokinetics and Hemodynamic Effects of Intravenous and Intramuscular Dexmedetomidine Hydrochloride in Adult Human Volunteers

    J B Dyck;M Maze;C Haack;L Vuorilehto

  • Pharmacokinetics of fentanyl administered by computer-controlled infusion pump.

    Steven L. Shafer;John R. Varvel;Natasha Aziz;James C. Scott

  • Intravenous drug delivery systems

    Michel Struys;Anthony R Absalom;Steven L. Shafer

  • Algorithms to rapidly achieve and maintain stable drug concentrations at the site of drug effect with a computer-controlled infusion pump.

    Steven L. Shafer;Keith M. Gregg

  • Influence of Age and Gender on the Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Remifentanil: I. Model Development

    Charles F. Minto;Thomas W. Schnider;Talmage D. Egan;Elizabeth Youngs

  • Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Remifentanil: II. Model Application

    Charles F. Minto;Thomas W. Schnider;Steven L. Shafer;George F. Rich

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald R. Stanski
Donald R. Stanski Stanford University School of Medicine
Michel Struys
Michel Struys University Medical Center Groningen
James C. Eisenach
James C. Eisenach Wake Forest University
Mervyn Maze
Mervyn Maze University of California, San Francisco
Daniel I. Sessler
Daniel I. Sessler The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Franklin Dexter
Franklin Dexter University of Iowa
Tony L. Yaksh
Tony L. Yaksh University of California, San Diego
Paul F. White
Paul F. White Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Jerrold H. Levy
Jerrold H. Levy Duke University
Evan D. Kharasch
Evan D. Kharasch Duke University

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