Clinical research is performed throughout the operating rooms, intensive care units and wards.
Laboratory research is performed in the Anesthesia and Critical Care Laboratory at the John F. Enders Pediatric Research Laboratories. Fellows in all programs are encouraged to participate. The faculty of the main operating rooms pursue a wide variety of research interests. These include assessing the role of bispectral index in the pediatric patient, the clinical pharmacology of local anesthetics in infants and children, the prevention of post-operative nausea and vomiting, and novel anesthetic techniques for microlaryngeal surgery. A very active neurosurgical research program centers on intraoperative EEG monitoring of children undergoing pial synangiosis, the role of soluble adhesion molecules in children with moyamoya syndrome, and coagulation defects in patients undergoing craniotomies.