Dr. Manuel Lopes Fontes MD
Anesthesiologist
2100 Erwin Rd Durham NC, 27705Rating
4/5
About
Dr. Manuel Fontes is an anesthesiologist practicing in Durham, NC. Dr. Fontes ensures the safety of patients who are about to undergo surgery. Anestesiologists specialize in general anesthesia, which will (put the patient to sleep), sedation, which will calm the patient or make him or her unaware of the situation, and regional anesthesia, which just numbs a specific part of the body. As an anesthesiologist, Dr. Fontes also might help manage pain after an operation.
Education and Training
Univ Of Ma Med Sch- Worcester Ma 1988
Board Certification
AnesthesiologyAmerican Board of AnesthesiologyABA- Hospice and Palliative Medicine
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Grand mal seizure during cardiopulmonary bypass: probable lidocaine toxicity.
- Retrograde cerebral perfusion: report of a fatal complication from a subarachnoid venous hemorrhage during thoracoabdominal aortic surgery.
- Hypertension: a new look at an old problem.
- Mortality associated with aprotinin during 5 years following coronary artery bypass graft surgery.
- Increased preoperative white blood cell count predicts postoperative atrial fibrillation after coronary artery bypass surgery.
- Perioperative hypertensive crisis: newer concepts.
- Noncardiac surgery: widening the gap in pulse pressure.
- Thrombocytopenia in the critically ill.
- Predicting adrenal insufficiency in severe sepsis: the role of plasma-free cortisol.
- Platelet Counts, Acute Kidney Injury, and Mortality after Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Surgery.
- In Reply.
- Management of Patients on Abuse-Deterrent Opioids in the Ambulatory Surgery Setting.
- Equivalent analgesic effectiveness between perineural and intravenous dexamethasone as adjuvants for peripheral nerve blockade: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
- Bicuspid noncalcific aortic stenosis: diagnostic limitations of intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography.
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