Alice Landrum, MD, Assoc.
Autistic children can be difficult to sedate for diagnostic procedures.
With IRB approval, we have obtained informed consent from the parents of 95 children and have collected data from these anesthetics. Because this study is ongoing, we are still enrolling patients. I would like to involve a student in the process of reviewing the data from previously enrolled patients and collecting it in an organized fashion to present to the statisticians so that we can prepare an abstract for presentation. When we enroll new patients on Thursdays, the student could help collect new data and observe the process of anesthesia in the MRI unit. This student would be working with me and with Dian Kittle who is the RN who helps with research in the anesthesiology department.